I love these emails for REALTORs promising miracles! March 22, 2006
John Vanhara
I got an email with subject: REALTOR REWARD.
It goes: Experts call this “The Most Effective Listing And Selling System In North America.”
Jerry Bresser’s LIST MORE, SELL MORE, Millionaire Maker System
It’s offered, not for the retail price of $3,400.00 as many have paid but now for the UNPRESEDENTED PRICE of $999.
This is the ENTIRE PROGRAM with nothing left out! Take total advantage of this LIMITED TIME OFFER.
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Isn’t great? I am still wondering why there is so much scam and B.S. systems sold to agents every year. There is more money made on agents then agents are making themselves. But that’s the way this industry works.
Detailed instructions how to upgrade Wordpress March 18, 2006
John Vanhara
I have spend last few days upgrading different blogs we use. There are great instructions for everything related to Wordpress, but sometimes it is hard to find what you are looking for. So if you are going to upgrade Wordpress check this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress#Detailed_Instructions
Changing picture in Wordpress March 16, 2006
John Vanhara
Kubrick is one of the most popular theme in Wordpress. Here is a great explanation how to change the header picture.
I am no graphic designer and it took me about 15 minutes to do it. But for this small website blog that’s enough for now. Check this Atlanta Real Estate blog with my new header picture.
Link Popularity- An useful SEO tool March 15, 2006
Supatra ChowdhuryWhat is link Popularity? Link popularity is a helpful SEO tool that gives a general representation of the total number of web-pages linked to a website (or individual web-page). Major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN support the “link:” operator. You have to type in “link:” (without the quotation marks) in front of the URL that you want to learn about.
How does this tool function? This tool will make a search in all the major search engines when you type in ‘link:’ infront of your preferred URL. It will give you the result of the total link count for each URL.
Does the result vary? However, the results will vary from one search engine to another. You will notice that the totals vary greatly because the figures shown actually represent the number of inbound-links that are fed to that search engine (which ofcourse varies on the size of their database). Search engines like Google even applies various filters against the inbound-links- as a result representation of inbound-links vary from one search engine to another.
Is link popularity important?. ? Link popularity is a major factor in influencing a site’s ranking in search results. Sites with more inbound-links generally rank higher than a similar site with less inbound links. However, anchor text is also a key factor besides inbound links to determining the positioning of a website.
$75,000 spent for online marketing and SEO March 12, 2006
John Vanhara
Yesterday I talked to real estate broker who spent $75,000 for SEO and online marketing last year. To be honest I was totally shocked with the amount and determination this broker has for Internet.
Too bad that most of the money were wasted. This business is about know-how. There is much what can be done with minimum investment. I never spend more than couple of hundreds for new website, including design, SEO, linking, etc. And believe my results are often better than any competition.
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