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Dollars and Adsense

Posted by admin on February 5th, 2008

 
So I am setting up adsense for the first time. Adsense is google’s program to allow folks with websites to embed ads on the page and get paid for clicks from that page. The content of the page typically delivers ad results from a particular category, in this case presumably real estate.
I am [...]

Since he will almost certainly not publish my follow up comment to his intro post, I will publish it here.
First of all, proclaiming your blog as great doesn’t make it so. Secondly, we hardly need a self-congratulatory vitriolic venue to vent our frustrations at anyone… that is what yelp and other professional resources are [...]

$, facts and fun with numbers

Posted by admin on January 28th, 2008

The National Association of REALTORS® put out a provocative new website last week. http://www.housingmarketfacts.com/.
I will address the ‘bad’ first.
It is barely a ’site,’ and can much more accurately be described as a launch page with a few paragraphs of new content and then a number of links to existing NAR services through their flagship REALTOR.org [...]

I blog, therefore I am

Posted by admin on December 29th, 2007

Ok, hardly worthy of Cartesian logic, but there is something to be said for the concept. If you are not creating content, and blogging is perhaps the best way to do so - as we have repeatedly stated on this site, then as far as the online world is concerned, you do not exist.
One of [...]

synch or swim

Posted by admin on December 17th, 2007

I start my commute nearly everyday asking myself the same question… why can’t I talk to my car and more importantly why can’t it talk to the internet for me?
Voice recognition has made huge strides. Cellular technology as well. And the internet is just there waiting. Yet the best I [...]

So your newish neighber sleeps all day and makes noise at absurd hours in the am. Of course you have shared your frustration with your family and friends, but that still leaves you feeling frustrated and needing some kind of closure. A quick search reveals that there is a user-contributed content website (lets [...]

Blog or diablog?

Posted by admin on September 20th, 2007

Just a quick tip and question here.  CAR (California Association of REALTORS) has launched a new ‘legal blog.’     You can access this fledgling resource <a href=”http://www.car.org/blogs/category.php?cid=5″>here</a>:
My question is whether blogging in this fashion, where you are clearly looking for and depending on the target audience to help make your content timely and relevant is really [...]