Gary Schmitz's (gmschmitz) Blog

I just found the top ten scams of 2006 on the consumer affairs website, and blogged about it. Check out the Top 10 Scams of 2006 . You would be suprised of how many people fall for these. I know a lot of people here on AR are tech savy and know about most of these if not all. I thought I'd share ...

I blogged about Zillow's new listing service the other day and then heard that HouseValuse and HomeGain are offer something similar. I thought I'd share this info over here at Active Rain and see what agents have to say. Is this a good thing? Comment here and let me know what you think or visit m...

I recently blogged about Fresh Content on my Real Estate Directory Blog. I thought I'd post a link here so people can check it out. Fresh Content is key to building a sucessful site. I don't mean changing your home page text every two weeks but adding content and pages to your site on a regular b...

I just blogged about Real Estate Agents & Blogging on my new blog and thought I'd share it here. Also I've touched on linking a couple times here in my blogs, but now that I started my own blog I thought I blog about linking over there and sum up my 2 posts here. Jsut thought I'd pass this on and...

Well I decided to start my own blog on my directory. Not sure why I thought I had the time to do this ;) I think I'm going to start blogging on my own site, fresh connent for my own site can't be a bad thing. I will still post here when I have a new blog just incase anybody is interested. Now I j...

  Google and Yahoo working together......What? Yes Google and Yahoo have joined together to launch a new site called SiteMaps.org. Vanessa Fox of Google and Tim Mayer of Yahoo announced that they are launching a new site called sitemaps.org to help webmasters and site owners have a standard for S...

                                                         I thought I'd post a blog in the advertising section to advertise my two Real Estate Agents Directories. The first one is a Google Page Rank 5 expecting to jump to a 6 on the next PR update. This directory, US Real Estate Directory has 1,22...

 I've seen a lot of talk about Google Adwords and agents getting emails from companies saying that they can get them to rank in the top 3 for curtain keywords. You have to look out for these companies, they are not talking about the organic search results. They are talking about the sponsored lin...

It's been brought to my attention that I missed some key points in my Linking blog . So I thought I'd do a follow up post on linking with images and how to do so. When linking with an image you should always use the alt tag. The alt tag is like a keyword tool and can help you get your keywords fo...

Your always going to get some kind of spam, but the best way to try and avoid some of it is by setting up disposable email addresses. Set up an email address like info @yoursite.com and use that email address when you sign up for things on the net. Never use your primary email address on your web...