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Most essential plugins for your wordpress blog.

I don’t have time to read and install all of them. They look very interesting.

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Xpenser - Expense Tracking and Reporting

Taking our online experience one step further…Now you can twitter your expenses to a record keeping log.  Cell phone and PDA using instant message.  We always have that attached to our hip.

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Seth’s Blog: The internal blog

What a great idea.  This could be something to track all of your thoughts…similar to what I am doing here.  Maybe track expenses and meetings.

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Where do you start?

Web Site Survey Check List:
1. Determine the 5 market leaders in your area. This information is usually obtainable through your MLS.
2. Go to http://google.com/ and enter their names (conduct a separate search for each)
3. With the search results, visit the web sites of the market leaders
4. Record the following for each of their web sites:

A. Colors
B. Content (Listings, theirs, much of the MLS, National)
C. Design and ease of navigation
D. Do they contain Privacy Policies?
E. Is their e-mail address on each page?
F. Any outstanding features you liked?
G. Is there a method for collecting e-mail addresses?
H. Any Features to Avoid ?

What do you put in your website?
Create a web site that people will visit and return to, even if they are not interested in buying and selling real estate. People buy and sell homes on average every five to eight years. Your objective is to get people to go to your Site as often as possible, so when they are in the market for real estate services, they think of you. For Site content try information such as:

1. Weather
2. Travel
3. Sports
4. Local info, such as the high school football schedule and restaurant reviews
5. News
6. Kelly Blue Book
7. Technology info
8. Garage sales
9. Stock quotes
10. Government agencies, such as the IRS

Tips for helping your Page Ranking
Check your Meta Tags at this website. It rips apart the whole website and shows you the word count popularity and such.

http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html

You can increase your popularity by joining link exchange sites. (however, read this blog and you will find out that its not really needed, but the jury is out for some folks.  Its entertaining.  Karen George is good!!!)

http://www.realestatelinkexchange.com/
http://www.directory4realestate.com/
and so on, just Google “free real estate link exchange” Most require you to add their link first… “Show me yours and I will show you mine” theory.

Bio Tips. (Long and Foster website in My System)
Since Long and Foster spends a lot of money on their keywords and so forth. You should make sure if someone should stumble across your bio that it stands out. It should be relevant to you and also important to the future customers. Read some of the bios, you will get a chuckle. This is not going to be a big driver to your business but it is a reflection of you. Once someone knows you, they will look you up on Long and Foster or got to your website which also has your bio. Sometimes it is hard to talk about yourself, so get a case of beer or bottle of wine and ask some friends over to your house and gloat about you.

If you have seen my Bio, here is the way to make a moving marquee in yours. You can change the marquee by replacing “Call or email me today to get started” to whatever you like.
Call or email me today to get started.(font size=”2″ color=”000065″)(b)(marquee)Call or email me today to get started.(/marquee)(/b)(/font)

You have substitute the ( ) signs for “< >” repectively.

You can dress up your Bio with a little bit of HTLM. It drives our IT department crazy.
Google “HTML 101″, it will have some short tutorials about HTML. Key thing to remember about HTML. There is a beginning TAG and an ending TAG. See above.

Enjoy…

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