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Many members ask, why do so many webmasters and realtors submit their websites to paid real estate directories?

There are a lot of reasons for this, but here are a few.

Potential Business: Real Estate Directories (The good ones) are very well organized and geared towards helping potential customers find a realtor to buy or sell a home, or gain access to available real estate inventory. These directories (Again the good ones) are also marketed to potential real estate customers through various avenues such as pay per click, viral marketing, natural search engine positioning, advertising (Print or electronic) and many other avenues. So not only can customers find you (The realtor) on a real estate directory, these directories do their best to increase… Read Full Post

We need to create some new categories for REW - specifically I am thinking about the Writing Center

We need one definitly for Articles, so what to call it? Article writing? Article Publishing? I wonder what would be the most intuitive and still keep it separate from the writing for the web section which was meant as a writing for your website, maybe I should change the name? Read Full Post

Starting a list of great websites for the staff and members to submit their articles for distribution.

Here is a starter

• Ezine articles
• Go Articles

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Not to self! Fix tomorrow Read Full Post

I am compiling a list of decent paid real estate directories for 07 offerings. So where to start?

Real Estate ABC - Started by Terry Light, a well respected member of our forum. Fees are $25 to $105 per year.

Relo Experts - Run by Jay Griffin, I don't believe he is accepting submissions any more, but we should definitly see if we can work something out for any unsold inventory. I know Jay has a bunch of other new directories, we would like to submit to all, we need to find out his criteria so that we can do all the work for him, make it easy to upload.

Reals.com - Looks decent, they have submissions from $19.99 up to $900 - it looks like you can get some really decent backlinks one way from a bunch of directories they control. Do these directories… Read Full Post

I need to create a quick piece of PHP that will pull recent posts for a particular user (RSS does this already, but I need something different) and for the blogs mainpage, forum etc we need most recent blog posts (TOP 5)

Also things like top posters, most trafficked blogs etc Read Full Post

2 of the things I would like to roll out this week are static pages and sort order for those pages, as well as a sort order for the bategories - we should use the new ajax drag and drop thing for this

What else? Oh yeah, I would like to show the amount of views and amount of comments next to the blog entries (Without having to view the details) so that users can see which are the most active, and which have the interest at a glance.

Hmmmm on a roll - don't forget about "My Google Maps" (Not going to post me idea here cause I like it and I'm greedy, you guys will see it soon)

Better Digg, Delicious graphics / links for new design - also look at other social networking sites.

REW Client blogs - we are ready, (Almost) so we need to make sure… Read Full Post

Ok so we are going to be syndicating listings for our new REW directory so we must accomodate this feature along with our agent directory.

So what are our challenges?

• New look featured agent directory
• Listings pages (Features from Point 2 and REW)
• Relocation information

Where to start? That's easy, the homepage

The homepage needs to be setup so that it gives equal attention to the realtor side and the listings side (Perhaps even the relocation side)

I do like how homes.point2 has graphical click to start type boxes for agents and listings, we should look at something like this.

Of course we also will want to provide html text links to both the states and provinces. These should be prominant and we need to educate visitors… Read Full Post