Shortly after posting the article before this one (Should MLS Brokers Be Allowed To Blog About Other MLS Broker's Listings?) I noticed a good amount of traffic coming in from a source I had not seen before: MySpace.Had someone hijacked the article?Was someone reproducing a feed on their MySpace
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06/24/2007
New RET contributor, Edde Anderson, of CF Anderson & Co., jumps into the Tomato Patch in controversial form. Edde and I were talking about the topic of this post the other day, and figured it would make for great blog fodder this weekend. Enjoy, and thanks Edde! Should MLS Brokers be allowed t
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06/23/2007
Chris Hotz, the director of our education division is back with a handy overview of why bloggers use so many chiclets on their real estate blog. Blog Chiclets: What Are All Those Colorful Banners In Your Sidebar?By Chris Hotz I love candy. If you read my last article, then you already know tha
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06/21/2007
One of the least understood, yet most important elements when choosing your web design provider is knowing the difference between purchasing a proprietary product and an open source product. Now that the internet is literally driven by open source (Wordpress, Firefox, Joomla, Thunderbird, Linu
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06/18/2007
Chris Hotz, the director of our education division is back with some insight on a topic that has turning up quite regularly lately: Reciprocal Linking and it’s effect on Search Engine results. White Hat SEO For Real Estate BloggingBy Chris Hotz I never played on a baseball team growing up, but I
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06/18/2007
9 observations of how publishing your real estate mind is like mastering a game of patience and grace. 1. You are competing against yourself.In golf there is no other responsible for your successes failures.Blogging is no different. Your search engine presence, traffic and leads are all depende
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06/15/2007
It (fortunately) hasn’t gone unnoticed that there have been no published blog posts to the Tomato in over two weeks. Have you ever wondered what the effects of not writing for two weeks on a regularly updated blog will have? We can’t speak for you, but this is what has happened to us. Missing
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06/09/2007
One of the biggest advantages to breeding A-List Real Estate Bloggers, is that now I have an army of talented and savvy bloggers willing to contribute incredibly useful content to the Tomato. Our newest contributor, Daniel Bates of MyMcClellanville.net, has had to take the load less traveled in
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06/09/2007
1. We support the democratization of local governments through the use of digg-style lawmaking.2. We believe social media websites represent the future of participatory governing.3. We believe traditional voting processes should be augmented with secure web-based voting systems.4. We want to
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05/23/2007
Here at the Tomato, we usually take the role of educators with the aim of covering a topic from many angles and with as much context as possible. This time we are asking for some help for you to provide us with the angles and context that will develop into an article. We would like to use this o
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05/17/2007
