Realty Support Blog: Real Estate Marketing

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realtysupport — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:14:20 +0000

At first glance, I am LOVING this new feature. They must have read my mind.

The video’s super cute too!

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Loving the Facebook social plugin – “Like” Box for your website

realtysupport — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:39:53 +0000

I just found a very easy-to-use Facebook application that lets you put a "like" button your web page! Very cool… http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box

Totally awesome.

Vancouver Sports Massage Therapist

realtysupport — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:22:08 +0000

I was so pleased to see that Vancouver Registered Massage Therapist Camelia Eisentraut received an awesome gift from her happy massage clients – the Olympic Dutch Speedskating team!

You can see a photo of the signed jersy they gave her – it's framed in her "office".

Camelia comes as a highly recommended Vancouver sports massage therapist!

Squamish Bootcamp registration

realtysupport — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:25:02 +0000

We have recently helped launch a new website for Osofit Bootcamp, a Bootcamp in Squamish!

They have programs starting monthly and bootcamp registration is now open.

If you're looking for a Squamish Bootcamp, this is sure to be a great workout!

Microsoft Warns Webmasters: You Might Be Dropped From New Search Formats

realtysupport — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:58:08 +0000

(From http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_warns_webmasters_you_might_be_dropped_fr.php)

Both Microsoft and Yahoo have announced that the two companies have begun testing the partnership originally inked a year ago, which will bring Bing search results to Yahoo.

The testing is currently affecting a quarter of Yahoo's search traffic and, while not site-wide, Microsoft is warning on its blog that webmasters should be diligent in making sure that their sites are showing up in search results correctly, lest they be left behind. To that end, Microsoft is releasing a completely redesigned version of its Bing Webmaster Tools.

Microsoft is warning webmasters that, just because their site showed up as they wanted on Yahoo search does not mean it will be the same for Yahoo search when it is powered by Bing and there are a few steps they should take:

During this testing phase, it's important to look at how your site is showing up in search results on Yahoo! and Bing today, so you can assess if there are any tweaks you need to make or feedback you need to share with the team to make sure your site is accurately represented in Bing's results. In particular, now is a good time for you to review your crawl policies in your robots.txt and ensure that you have identical polices for the msnbot/Bingbot and Yahoo's bots. Just to note, you should not see an increase in bingbot traffic as a result of the transition.

The updated webmaster tools give webmasters control over three areas: crawl, index and traffic. Through the use of these tools, webmasters can control how and where their website shows up in Bing search results, as well as look at traffic on the search engine. Here's Microsoft's explanation:

Index Explorer gives you unprecedented access to browse through the Bing index in order to verify which of your directories and pages have been included. Submit URLs gives you the ability to signal which URLs Bing should add to the index. Other new features include: Crawl Issues to view details on redirects, malware, and exclusions encountered while crawling sites; and Block URLs to prevent specific URLs from appearing in Bing search engine results pages. In addition, the new tools take advantage of Microsoft Silverlight 4 to deliver rich charting functionality that will help you quickly analyze up to six months of crawling, indexing, and traffic data.

When we looked at this partnership a year ago, we posited that it could create some competition for Google. In the last year, Google has lost little ground in the search marketplace, but Yahoo and Bing both hold the number two and three spots in search engine popularity worldwide. We'll see if Bing-powered search results do anything to change the status quo. In the meantime, webmasters would be wise to heed Microsoft's advice and monitor their site in the search results.

New Ubertor Feature: Third Level Navigation

realtysupport — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:39:23 +0000

Now within the Ubertor system Approved Vendors can add 3rd level navigation. Actually, they could add 3rd level, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc. Not sure if you would need that many levels to your navigation, but either way, the power is there for Approved Vendors to expand your navigation.

Calgary Realtors John Hripko and Josh Nelson have taken advantage of this new functionality and added it to their new Ubertor website. Check out their website, not only have they added a ton of pages to the website but they have utilized the third navigation functionality so that you can dig down into the different condo buildings in different areas.

Great News about Gmail Signatures

realtysupport — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:23:43 +0000

Reachd Blogging Course (Vancouver)

realtysupport — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:22:16 +0000

I am in the midst of teaching a group of four people from a variety of businesses and backgrounds about blogging!

Here’s a quick photo of the group. You might notice that my blue Nalgene water bottle makes an appearance in a lot of the photos on my blog.

Above, we have Ashlee King from Vancouver Big Brothers, Rosie Nykolaishen, a Fraser Valley Real Estate Agent, Carol Jamieson, Advertising & Marketing Writer, and Mercedes Mackie from Vancouver Portrait Photography Studio Bopomo Pictures.

We’re learning lots here today. Stay tuned for blogging from all of these participants!

YMCA New Ventures Social Media class

realtysupport — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:54:06 +0000

Just a quick demo of how posting to Posterour works!

Tami Paris, Realtor with Prudential Sussex Realty (North & West Vancouver)

realtysupport — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:15:09 +0000

Tami Paris, Realtor with Prudential Sussex Realty (North & West Vancouver) recently contacted me to create a clean, professional and simple website for her real estate business.

We were both very pleased with the results!

She's using her reciprocity with the REBGV to load listings to her website when she sees properties she likes or holds open houses. The easy-to-use website looks professional and is a quick learn.

Enjoy your new website, Tami!
~ Dara