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WordPress vs True Integrated IDX: Where Are All Those Missing Listings?
With both a WordPress site and a site with true integrated listings live for Eugene, Oregon real estate broker Simon Smith, I decided to compare search results for the two sites. The WordPress site...
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Did You Drink the “WordPress Is Google-Friendly” Koolaid?
Over the past couple of years, numerous Realtors® have told me — or have written somewhere — that WordPress is good for search engine optimization (SEO). I’ve heard variations of that theme, as well,...
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When Is WordPress a Good Choice for a Realtor’s® Website?
WordPress is a great solution for Realtors who can’t get true integrated listings because their MLS boards limit feed access to only Broker/Owners or who can’t get a feed for some other reason. An...
View ArticleWhat’s the Difference Between Custom Real Estate Site Design and SEO or...
Lots of people ask me about the difference between what I do — custom real estate website design — and search engine optimization. It’s actually quite simple: search engine optimization (SEO) is about...
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How to Make the Most of Your Blogging Time
With the growing popularity of WordPress blogs for Realtors®, the idea that regular blogging is some kind of magic bullet for search engine optimization has also spread. Are you spending a lot of...
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Why WordPress.com Is Not the Place for Your Real Estate Blog
Since Jay Thompson blogged about the success of his dsIDXpress-enabled WordPress site in late 2009 or early 2010, WordPress as become the BIG HOT NEW THING!!! for Realtors®. Since word about WordPress...
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How to Set Up an Address for Your Real Estate Blog
If you already have a regular website with its own domain name, you’ll probably want to set up your blog’s address so that the search engines will credit your website’s domain name with the content you...
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Real Estate Website Leads — It’s Almost All in the Numbers
Here on my blog, I often write about website traffic. You may wonder why I, a website designer and not an SEO vendor, care so much about traffic. The answer is simple: the number of leads a real estate...
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Myth Busting: WordPress Isn’t Always Good for Google Juice
Perhaps the most pervasive and destructive myth popular among real estate agents is the idea that WordPress is good for search engine optimization (SEO), aka “Google juice.” WordPress is so...
View ArticleWordPress, a Haven for Clueless Real Estate Site Developers
My pet peeve about WordPress is that so few people who are developing WordPress sites for Realtors, including Realtors themselves, have even the slightest idea what they are doing. Because of their...
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