seo: Defining "Enterprise Ready": A Guide To Online Video Platforms For Brokers, Agencies, Associations, And Listing Portals - 10/18/08 01:02 AM
All real estate video platforms are not alike.  If your video platform provider is geared to uploading and converting videos, places videos on their own site for the search engines to find, and is more concerned about branding themselves or other third parties, it isnt "enterprise ready". 
Some key factors when considering a video platform for your organization (whether local, state, national or international level in focus)
- Branding: An enterprise video solution will "know" where a video is being watched and be able to apply the correct branding to that video. The branding choices should be 100% configurable by the … (5 comments)

seo: The Other Side Of SEO: Using Clues From Search Engines To Present Contextually Relevant Real Estate Content - 09/13/08 03:51 PM
You've done all of the SEO stuff that the gurus talk about. Lots of people talk about the "help search engines find you" part of interaction with website visitors. Far less people talk about what to do once the visitors arrive.
It only makes sense that visitors come to your site looking for something since they are using search engines to find new content. That visit may be the first and only time that they visit your site and that "something" they are looking for may still be posted but now resides on a different page or mixed in with other … (16 comments)

seo: Why Sexy Isn't Always Best On Real Estate Websites - 06/16/07 12:03 PM
I have a client with a real estate website that is absolutely beautiful.  It is almost a work of art. 
There are two problems however:
#1 - Google No Likee 100% Flash: The site in question is written 100% in Flash.  The SEO issues are so bad that the client cannot specifically search in Google for an exclusively marketed development on his site using his agency name and the development name and have any of the results point to his site.
#2 - No Source Code: My client cannot make any changes to the website because they don't have a copy of the flash … (18 comments)

seo: Linking Real Estate Content With User Context: Deriving User Context - 03/15/07 01:07 AM
In the first part of our series about linking real estate content to user context, we looked at data, metadata and came to understand context as it relates to real estate content.
In this second article, we talk about context with respect to individual users on a real estate website and lay the groundwork for matching user context with real estate content. We discuss specific methods for determining user context including:
- Website Tools     - IP geolocation     - browser sniffers     - use of the site's search- Self-selection     - website      - preference selections     - site usage patterns     - chosen content     - search engine … (2 comments)

 

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