Leading The Way With 100,000 Agent Reviews - 01/26/12 03:12 PM
It's been over a year since we launched Agent Ratings and Reviews. 
Today we are leading the way with more than 100,000 reviews of local real estate agents submitted by our users.  At launch, there were a few skeptics that felt that this could hurt an agent's business just as much as it could help, but, great service cultivates referral growth. Premier Agents with five or more reviews get more than twice as many contacts than agents with zero reviews.
Today, we're expanding Ratings and Reviews to all real estate professionals.  All you need is a profile on Zillow and you … (11 comments)

Top FREE Image and Photo Editing Sites - 01/22/12 04:18 PM
There is so much concern and “Buzz” about Google shutting down Picnik.com, I decided to provide you with some alternative tools for editing and customizing your graphics, photos, and images.   While Picnik.com will be shutting down in April 2012, here are some other options you have available immediately.

FotoFlexer – Create some dazzling photo and image effects in your browser for FREE.  Use Animations, resizing, coloring, contrast and more.  Take a look at These 5 Demo’s for a quick tour of what FotoFlexer has to offer, you’ll love some of these cool features.  Smart Scissor is a favorite feature.

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Keyword Tools for Your Blog - 01/11/12 02:26 PM
Back in the day, a few of us discovered a really cool tool from Google known as "The Wonder Wheel" which helped members with keyword selection for their SEO friendly blog posts.  Now that the Wonder Wheel is gone, I get literally hundreds of requests from members looking for good alternatives to enhance and better the "Keyword" content on their blogs, sites, posts, and blog titles.
Understanding The Importance of Keyword Searches:
Search engines like Google focus on returning the best quality and "Best Available" SERP's (Search Engine Results Pages)  It's all based on what "Keywords" or phrases are being typed … (91 comments)

The Importance of Strategic Distribution - 01/09/12 03:59 PM
Spencer Rascoff, our CEO at Zillow, just posted this great article about the "Importance of Strategic Distribution" which discusses the hot topic of listing syndication.  I'm excited to see the conversations and engagement that develop around this subject as it's one that I too am very passionate about.  I find myself having conversations and discussions around this topic daily.
Thanks Spencer for posting this and for addressing head-on many of the industry and member issues and concerns.  Definitely reblog worthy, I hope many others will reblog this too.  :-)
Via Spencer Rascoff (Zillow):
It’s a new year, so what better time to … (4 comments)

 
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