Morgan Carey's Blog: All Categories

One of the first areas I want to address is the user info area at the top right of the blogs where the picture and about bio is. I don''t know exactly where and what to change, but I think it is lacking.

So where to start? The RSS feed image - it is small and not that pleasing, I had referenced another site at http://www.10e20.com/ I really like the look of their RSS feed graphic, I would like something like that, it just dresses up the blogs a lot more graphically.

Next the logo, right now it reads Real Estate Webmasters - I think it should read, REW Blogs. We still want to use the circle with green swishes, but changing the verbiage should reinforce the REW BLogs brand.

 I would also like to add blockquote to the format dropdown (This is a…

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I would be very nice to have a printable version of blog posts, ALSO email to a friend etc - see PR web, DIGG etc Read Full Post

After much testing and user feedback we have now opened the REW Blogs to the public, now any real estate professional can apply for an REW blog and showcase their prowess as an internet savvy web 2.0 Realtor.

How to apply for an REW blog:

Go to the REW Forum and send a private message to the community administrator Morgan Carey (Member username webmaster) *You must be logged into the forum to send private messages
In your private message, put in the message title "Requesting an REW Blog" - And then in the body of the private message, you will need to provide your desired username, password and an email address to attach to the blog.

Before applying please make sure you have read the REW Blog Rules

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I need to create a mailer (Simple enough) that sends emails to all REW bloggers letting them know about new upgrades to REW Blogs as well as point out helpful information posted on REW and other blog related sources that will improve the quality of their blogs. Read Full Post

I think we should increase the amount of articles in a category from 5 to 8 - not sure how this will effect the design, but will provide more to read and more to look at from a content perspective. Read Full Post

If you are a firefox user, and you click the RSS feed link on your favorite REW Blog authors blog, you can add an automatic update bookmark link to your firefox toolbox. It's actually really cool, you get notifications when new posts are made, so you can go check them out.

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I tell you if I had a dollar for every time some sleazy company tried to spam our real estate community with their self promotional crap, I would not need to offer any fee for service development, I could just retire.

Who is the newest spammer? Xoompad IDX

They post "Revolutionary IDX Solution" as their tagline, and then go on to talk about how great their product is. First of all, this is spam and is NOT appreciated. In my opinion there is nothing revolutionary about xoom pad they are just copying quality IDX providers like REW. What is the most rediculous part though, is that they were trying to get away with posting their self promotional CRAP on a competitors website.

Our forum rules state no attempts at blatant self promotion - to date we have…

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Ok so what is blogalytics? Blogalytics is a term I just made up by combining the word Blog and the word analytics - Make sense?

Ok seriously though, this blog post is TOTALLY worth reading to the end, so keep reading. (Especially for you REW bloggers)

Blogalytics is a technique I have practiced, and selectively shared with friends that helps alleviate the annoying task of trying to decide what to blog about while at the same time being guaranteed that your blog posts will receive the kind of targeted visitors that you are trying attract to your website.

The analytics part: There are 2 requirements

1. In order to practice this technique you have to have "some" traffic from search engines.

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