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The internet is full of crap, but not everything on the internet is crap is what has been coming across my monitor these past few hours. I recently was updating a Wikipedia page with a link to a well written review from Examiner.com when I found out that Examiner.com is on Wikipedia’s blacklist. This lead me to check out what other sites may be blocked and eventually I stumbled upon ...

So unless you’ve been living under a rock you have probably heard by now that Bing is copying Google search results. Ok, so not exactly copying them, but the user data that Microsoft collects is essentially making Bing give the same level of value to websites as Google does and as a direct result many sites that rank on the first page of Google will have these same rankings on ...

I’m writing this because if you are like me and experiencing issues with canonical errors on a new Drupal site, a killer SEO problem, much of what you will find on Google will reference two types of fixes, however the one you need probably won’t pop up. I found this very annoying as SEO with Drupal is such a saturated topic. But it wasn’t until I was looking through the documentation ...

This week while reviewing my GA’s information I noticed that an old site of mine, www.lasvegascrenews.com had suddenly began receiving more traffic of late from Bing, so much so that is surpassed traffic sent to it from Google and is now the number one source of traffic for this site. The odd thing is this site hasn’t been updated since it finished its purpose in June of 2009. I had originally ...

This morning when I went to check my Facebook messages via my phone I was informed of a new update available for the Application. Being a user who always desire to have the latest version of software installed I eagerly clicked “accept”, “download” and “reboot” appropriately. A minute later my phone was up and running, but then, so was something else. A black icon with the word “Bing” sat in ...

I don't usually like to flat out bash web services or sites as it’s not professional, but it's the holidays, I'm stressed and I really hate DMOZ. I suppose the fuel for this fire started when I received an email this morning from esitesecrets.com a site that I signed up to receive news from, but am finding myself more and more disappointed with their lack of useful and current information. ...

You may have no idea what heading means, and that’s probably ok if you’re in the Real Estate industry. If you’re in to SEO/SEM or are looking for an easy way to increase traffic to your website a quick Google search will lead you to all three of these sites: Stumbleupon, Delicious and Digg – but are they worthwhile for the Real Estate Community? These three sites are considered, Social Bookmarking ...

Broker Marketing Feedback While our overall office strategy effectively increased visitors to our website, lead generation that results in a transaction has and will most likely always come from the brokers own networking and marketing strategies. The following is based on the feedback received from our offices Brokers and their Marketing Specialists. Print Ads Of the brokers who responded to the questionnaire all of them were no longer running print ads, post cards ...

The following is my preliminary marketing report for the first half of the year. Over the next few weeks I will be interviewing brokers and their marketing specialists to use in the full report coming out later this summer. Marketing Overview This year our marketing goal was to completely overhaul the way we do advertising and marketing for our office. We needed a new approach on a reduced budget that would still ...