Archive | December, 2006

New Search Engine: Quintura – Will we have to rethink SEO?

12. Dec, 2006 • Categories: "How-To" SEO, Search Engine News • by Justin Smith

Just found a really cool new search engine that lets you visually search for a term: Quintura. The technical term is called “Latent Semantic Indexing”. And there are actually many search engines incorporating this technology into their algorithms. You can navigate through the cloud of related terms and refine it by clicking [...]

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Second Life – Is it a Viable Real Estate Economy?

05. Dec, 2006 • Categories: Real Estate Related • by Justin Smith

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a long time…Have you heard of Second Life yet?  Here is a link that will help: wikipedia.
It is basically a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), with a few differences.  2L(second life) gives you ultimate creativity to do and create almost anything you want.  The [...]

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Friday Fun Post

02. Dec, 2006 • Categories: Real Estate Related • by Justin Smith

I’m sure you’ve already seen this cool tool that lets you spell things with buildings… but it’s just so fun to play with!!

Here is a link for a puzzle game called “Houses”

TouchGraph.com visually displays your links and pages related to yours in a crazy visual spider web of information.

Fear Factor [...]

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Is Mobile Technology a Useful tool in the Hands of a Successful Agent… Or is it Overkill?

02. Dec, 2006 • Categories: Real Estate Related • by Justin Smith

Via PRweb I read an interesting press release about Casey Margenau Re/Max’s #1 agent worldwide for 5 years straight.  It caught my eye because it’s always helpful to look at the best agents to get marketing ideas and inspiration.
Casey just recently started using a service called mobilepricecheck.com.  Here’s how it claims to work:

Stick [...]

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R.I.P. – Reciprocal Linking – Deceased 1999-2006

01. Dec, 2006 • Categories: "How-To" SEO, Search Engine News • by Justin Smith

Is anyone as sick as I am of receiving reciprocal linking requests in the form of spam emails?  I read a fantastic article by Mike Banks Valentine of SearchEngineOptimism.com.  Yes the article is a bit controversial, but that’s what makes it a fun read!  The title is: “Reciprocal Linking is Dead”
Here are some excerpts that [...]

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Active Rain Groups are Awesome!!

01. Dec, 2006 • Categories: Real Estate Related • by Justin Smith

I was so excited when I heard about the new group feature release Sunday night.  I thought it would be a great opportunity to meet new people and be able to filter blog posts for content.
I was all set Monday night to set up my group centered on internet marketing when Tuesday hit… I was [...]

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