Technology For Agents

Mashable just came out with a great post listing the 20 best SEO plugins for Wordpress. Techforagents is built on Wordpress, and I find it to be one of the easiest to use platforms around.

If you have a blog, be sure to give some of them a try. Among the list, I personally use:

• All in One SEO Pack – This is the “jack of all trades” SEO plugin for Wordpress that was recommended to me numerous times.  It let’s you edit Title tag structures, meta information, and a long list of other useful options.
• Google XML Sitemaps – Submitting your sitemap to search engines helps them get to your content faster.  This plugin will help you create that sitemap faster.

Get the full list over at Mashable.

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Real estate agents have a lot on their plate. When they’re not out showing homes, helping a distressed client with their closing, or contacting their past clients to drum up some referral business, they’re busy trying to find ways to get their business exposed to the world.

Blogging is a great way to display you level of expertise with your neighborhood, city, or niche. Below, I thought it would be nice to share 10 real estate topics you could blog about today to get you in the mood to write.
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It’s only a matter of time before that wonderful day comes that you get your first comment on your very own blog. I’ll coach for you to have a blog about your local real estate market, but how do you help it gain in popularity?

Good “search engine optimizers” will check your source code of your blog to ensure that a special tag is removed from all links. The “nofollow” attribute of a link will tell a search engine to NOT follow that link, therefore not helping the person who created the link to build those precious backlinks to improve their rankings in the search engine of their preference.

You need to make sure that these link attributes aren’t automatically applied to the links created on your site to encourage others to comment on your blog.

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