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I made this comment on twitter last week before leaving town and just returned from vacation to find that it started a fascinating discussion which moved to AR thanks to Courtney Cooper. Courtney further exaggerated my hyperbole and wrote a post titled "Blogging is Dead." The comments in response...
07/06/2009
Syndicating listings to 3rd party websites should be part of your SEO (search engine optimization) strategy. It's a simple formula; you allow your listings to be published on other websites in exchange for a link back to your site. Link building, as the SEOs call it, is by far the most effective ...
09/24/2008
If you think that Fannie and Freddieare the mortgage story of the week, I hope that you're sitting down. OK, maybe Fannie & Freddie are the big news of the week but while the long-term impact of the fed's takeover is up for debate, I have no doubt that Mortgages Unzipped, a new blog about mortgag...
09/11/2008
09/08/2008
This is a mashup of video I shot with my flip camcorder at RE Bar Camp in San Francisco last week. If you get a chance to attend a Bar Camp, I highly recommend it. [Soundtrack credit: Orphan by Laptop & Reilly via Open Source Audio]
07/31/2008
Zillow just unleashed a heap mo bling fo yo blog. Putting the slang aside, these mortgage rate widgets could add useful information for buyers visiting your blog. Remember buyers? Anyhow, click on the drop-down list to change the mortgage chart to 15-year fixed or 5/1 ARM or click a button to vie...
07/14/2008
Many thanks to the Active Rain gods for the opportunity to judge Project Blogger. Two months in and the apprentices are finding their stride. Go here to review all of the posts submitted by Project Blogger apprentices this week. For all the apprentices who were wondering how the big-Z ended up on...
06/07/2007
Hi All,Zillow has released its quarterly reports on house value trends in the US in Q4 2006. More details about the reports can be found in this blog post in which Zillow's Director of Analytics explains that "For these 2006 fourth quarter results, we’re taking a slightly different approach than ...
02/09/2007
This past week we posted a mini-series of tips for new bloggers on the Zillow Blog. The series was fun to write -- we had leaders at Zillow blog about their area of internet expertise in the context of starting a business weblog. While there's a lot of advice for bloggers online, we felt there wa...
02/09/2007
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 If you posted your listings on Zillow today or yesterday, THANK YOU! It's been an exciting couple of days. If you posted your Make Me Move price, fantastic!  At a lively Zillow company all-hands meeting today, our latest affectionate phrase, to "ZFresh", was coined. "To ZFresh" is to refresh you...
12/08/2006
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