Archive for September, 2007

California Association of Realtors discusses what it terms: Real Estate Generation 2.0

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 Posted in INDUSTRY EVENTS, WEB 2.0 | No Comments »

In this months California Real Estate Magazine the California Association of Realtors discusses "Generation 2.0" or for short "Gen 2.0"  - The New Real Estate. The article compares old methods of ... Read more..

Trulia announces that it ranks alongside Google and Yahoo!

Friday, September 21st, 2007 Posted in GOOGLE | No Comments »

Trulia has risen to become one of the largest Real Estate listing services outside of the controlled MLS environments. Trulia have today announced that they now are on par with ... Read more..

Blogging Neighborhood Resource: Propertymaps.com

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in ONLINE TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES | No Comments »

With potential home buyers searching for Real Estate online there has been a growth in sites dedicated to providing local information for consumers. Information such as community amenities and activities as well as ... Read more..

Be early to YouTube with your Real Estate Video Listings!

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in MARKETING, YOUTUBE | No Comments »

Pew Internet & American Life Project says that 57% of Internet users have watched videos online and most of them share what they find with others. They say 74% of ... Read more..

California Real Estate: State Realtor Association now on Second Life

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 Posted in ONLINE TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES, WEB 2.0 | No Comments »

The success of Second Life really has been phenomenal, with people buying and selling items including Real Estate, in fact one of the leading Real Estate franchise company's, Coldwell Banker ... Read more..

Google Renames its ‘office suite’ to just ‘Google Docs’

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 Posted in GOOGLE | No Comments »

Many will have heard of Google Documents and Spreadsheets, which has just been renamed the all encompassing 'Google Docs' and now allows users to create Documents, Spreadsheets and presentations online! This ... Read more..

Business Blogging: Using Technology to Educate the consumer about the Buying Process

Monday, September 17th, 2007 Posted in BLOGGING BEST PRACTICES | No Comments »

Buyers often feel uncomfortable with the buying process and many agents agonize over the time consuming process of educating clients. This is heightened more by the growing number of foreign ... Read more..

Wikipedia Takes on Google and Yahoo with its new Wikia Search

Thursday, September 13th, 2007 Posted in GOOGLE, ONLINE TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES | No Comments »

With over 8.2 million articles in over 250 languages and having grown from virtually nowhere in just 6 years, Wikipedia is nothing to be sniffed at. The web based encyclopedia is ... Read more..

Google’s searcher retention second to Yahoo! & Microsoft

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 Posted in GOOGLE | No Comments »

Despite Google's dominance in the search market, visitors stay on their site less time than their rivals, Yahoo! & MSN. The figures for August show that Google has more searchers ... Read more..

Realtor Q & A: “Why do we rank higher in some Search Engines than others?”

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 Posted in REALTOR Q & A | No Comments »

The simple answer is, every Search Engine has a different algorithm for ranking content. It's only likely they also differ in their methods for identifying & consuming content. Yahoo, Google, MSN ... Read more..