By Lani Rosales on January 30, 2010
This week on AG:
This week’s most popular topics include social media and technology along with shadow inventories and short sales and it was a busy week for news, indeed. Readers and writers argued over whether or not shadow inventories exist at the same time as the Apple iPad was mocked publicly for its rush to market.
In case you missed any of these stories, here are the top 10 most read AG articles of the week:
Bank of America Retard Division for Short Sales by Russell Shaw
(featured on the Top 10 every week since we started sharing these stats 5…
Posted in News | Tagged Real Estate News
By Lani Rosales on January 22, 2010
This week on AG:
This week, many of the top 10 most read articles are focused on the use of technology to get ahead, ranging from google and SEO to using foursquare creatively in business and of course the Bank of America article by Russell Shaw continues to stay in the Top 10 (but as Russell would tell you, everything he touches turns to gold, so if we could avoid telling him he’s in the Top 10 again, that would help us avoid his ego not fitting through the door which his wife would highly appreciate).
In case you missed any of…
Posted in News | Tagged Real Estate News
By Jack Leblond on December 19, 2009
Time to find out who’s been paying attention
This week we are not having a tip, this week it’s time to see who’s site is doing well, and who’s needs some more help. After all, how can I possibly know what kind of help (or how much) you need without testing your skills?
But, this is not a pencil and paper type of quiz, I’m going to review your sites, see what you can improve on and what you are doing well.
Obviously I can’t test all of your sites, that’s alright, I suspect there are some who don’t need it,…
Posted in Real Estate
By Jack Leblond on November 14, 2009
Sitemaps help make your 100 acres easier to navigate
Welcome back. My series of SEO Tips is winding down; I hope you have gotten a lot out of them. If you have questions about this, the earlier tips or something I have yet to cover, please don’t hesitate to ask.
How could Christopher Robin ever find Pooh or Tigger’s place without his map of the 100 acre woods? Without a map, how easily could you get around in a town you’ve never been to before? Sure, you could drive up and down every street until you found your destination, but that…
Posted in SEO | Tagged SEO, seotip
By Lani Rosales on October 26, 2009
We recently invited you all to connect with Agent Genius writers on Twitter and today we focus our attention on Facebook. Some people prefer the Twitter environment while others prefer the Facebook environment, so we invite you to connect individually with current AG writers as well as get to know us on the Agent Genius Fan Page.
AG Writers’ Facebook profiles:
Benn Rosales
Lani Rosales
Amy Chorew
Ben Goheen
Benjamin Bach
Bill Lublin
Bob Wilson
Brandie Young
Daniel Rothamel
Danilo Bogdanovic
Erion Shehaj
Ginny Cain
Greg Cooper
Gwen Banta
Ines Hegedus-Garcia
Jack Leblond
Jim Duncan
Ken Brand
Lesley Lambert
Linsey Planeta…
Posted in New Media | Tagged facebook, social networking
By Jack Leblond on October 10, 2009
In last week’s SEO Tip about linking to the home page correctly, I promised to tell you how to do “canonicalization” (just don’t ask me to pronounce it). As a quick refresher, canonicalization is a fancy word that means to direct traffic from multiple, possibly undesirable addresses, to a single preferred address.
The most common use for this is for telling your web server to only display pages either with the “www.” or without it, but not both. This is typically done by editing a special file named “.htaccess” located in your web servers “root” or top most folder. If…
Posted in SEO | Tagged SEO, seotip
By Jack Leblond on October 3, 2009
Welcome to another in my series of SEO Tips. The last few weeks have been pretty geeky, covering META Tags and other mysterious things. Today is an easy one; Link to your Home page correctly.
I know – that’s TOO EASY to even count as a tip, right? Ha! Guess again bucko!
We have to remember that even though Google and the other engines TRY to be more human in their analysis of our Web sites, they are still just stupid computers. And stupid computers don’t understand that even though we might use many different ways to link to our…
Posted in Coaching, SEO | Tagged SEO, seotip
By Jack Leblond on September 19, 2009
We continue the SEO Tips series today with a discussion on the HTML “Title” tag. If you have read much about SEO, you probably already know that this little piece of code is one of the most important parts of your pages. The recent SEO Ranking Factors survey named keyword use in titles tags as the second most important thing you can do to improve your rankings. Unlike in the popular song we used to sing around campfires, where my name was your name too (Da, da, da, da, da, da, da), page titles MUST all be unique for them…
Posted in Coaching, SEO | Tagged SEO, seotip
By Jack Leblond on September 15, 2009
As a guy that earns his living as an Internet Marketing Professional, I am naturally just a *LITTLE* biased towards businesses needing great web sites, so when I read “We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Websites” it struck a nerve. When I first read the article, I took it to mean Bill was saying all you need is your listings. However, after reading his replies to the comments, and having a brief conversation with him, I came to realize what Bill meant to say was you need more than listings, and more than a cookie-cutter static site. You need to demonstrate…
Posted in Coaching, SEO | Tagged professionalism, SEO, Social Media, Technology
By Jack Leblond on September 5, 2009
Do you speak SEO?
When it’s time to hire a professional, whether they be a plumber, baker, mechanic, realtor or an SEO, it’s pretty important that you be able to speak at least a little of their language. Without being able to explain your thoughts and desires, it will be very difficult for any professional to understand exactly what it is you want them to do. Unless of course, you are in the market for a mind reader.
Since I suspect more of you need to hire SEO’s than need to hire mind readers, I present for your reading pleasure a…
Posted in New Media | Tagged SEO
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