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06/13/2012

We love holidays! They're the perfect opportunity to create articles about local things to do and places to go to celebrate!

Stuck for content ideas this week? Create a post about the best steakhouses in your area to celebrate Father's Day.

Great SEO advantages and the perfect opportunity to position yourself as the local real estate expert!

06/06/2012

A very helpful tool! We're excited to be training our clients on how they can use this nifty tool to share the blog content we create for them (because cross-pollinating rocks)!

Third-party apps like HootSuite just got a little less relevant with an update from Facebook that lets Page admins schedule posts. A new help center page from Facebook also outlines how brand pages c

06/06/2012

A big thanks to Broadview Mortgage for hosting a wonderful Lunch and Learn event yesterday in Long Beach! We're definitely looking forward to the next one in August.

05/30/2012

If you're interested in SEO, this is a great "must watch" to add to your list! Thanks SEOmoz for information about the Penguin update...

SEOmoz and I don't always see eye to eye on industry issues, but I still have a lot of respect for the company. In fact SEOmoz is still the website that I send people to, when they want to learn about SEO or get into our industry. Rand kindly invited me to the SEOmoz office when I was in Seattle thi...

05/29/2012

Great post, Ricardo! http://www.ricardobueno.com/10-reasons-you-should-start-a-real-estate-blog/

If I were a new real estate agent and I was looking for a way to build my brand and establish myself as the local, go to expert for buying and selling real estate in my area, I'd start a real estate blog right away. Here's why...

05/15/2012

Thanks for sharing this, Eric! Stealing content is pretty serious business.

MOST real estate professionals who violate copyright laws say they didn’t know they were breaking the law, a response that should raise some eyebrows, given their allegiance to ethics and fair business practices.

05/04/2012

Because nobody likes typos... http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

05/01/2012

If you have a WordPress website, this is a great plug-in for protecting your content! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-protect/

WP-Protect is a plugin for WordPress websites that allows webmasters to protect their content from being stolen. More specifically, it allows webmasters to disable certain features for their website visitors that are popular methods of stealing site content. These anti-features are accomplished by w...

04/22/2012

It's pretty exciting that this event sold out in a mere three days! Keep an eye out for the next event sometime in late May. We'd love to see you there if you're in the Southern California area.

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3336506581/efblike

Broadview Mortgage cordially invites you to join us at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse to kick your website into high gear with three of the industry's most forward thinking niche marketing, content marketing and SEO experts! Should you have any questions please contact Chris at (714)244-7368. Host:...

04/09/2012

Because articles like this never go out of style...

http://www.portent.com/blog/design-dev/six-basic-web-design-mistakes.htm

Whether you are designing a website, a banner, or a flyer for a magician, you’ve probably thought this to yourself at some point: “Why isn’t this design working? Is it because nobody likes magicians?” The answer to that question is yes, but

03/28/2012

It's the perfect time of year for Website Spring Cleaning! http://www.illinoisrealtor.org/magazine/4_2012tech

Is your photo so old that potential clients wouldn’t recognize you if they ran into you in the grocery store? Is your site so cluttered with information and links that they wouldn’t know where to look first? Do you make them wade so far into your site to find what they’re really after—your property ...

03/24/2012

Google appreciates quality content... http://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-over-seo-optmization-penalty/41517/

If you haven't already heard, Google's Matt Cutts and Bing's Duane Forrester recently did a SXSW session with Danny Sullivan ...