wordpress – Real Estate Lead Generation

Add A Sitemap to Your Real Estate WordPress Website

Written by Ryan Hartman on April 20, 2010
Categories: ReTechtorials

Having a sitemap somewhere on your site is good fundamental SEO (Search Engine Optimization.) An automatically updating sitemap will allow the bots from the search engines to come and index every page on your site when they arrive, ensuring you have a solid chance for being found for each individual page. From Wikipedia for Sitemap: [...]

Logging Into Your Real Estate WordPress Dashboard For The First Time

Written by Ryan Hartman on April 12, 2010
Categories: ReTechtorials

Finding the login page for your WordPress site can drive you nutty the first few times you try it. Best way to avoid frustration? REMEMBER THIS: “wp-admin” . Your login page is always there waiting for you at http://YOURBLOGGADDRESS.COM/wp-admin. (the magic is in the stuff after the slash. )

Creating Photo Galleries For Your Real Estate Listings With WordPress

Written by Ryan Hartman on April 12, 2010
Categories: ReTechtorials

This screencast illustrates how you can use the wordpress photo uploader and the “gallery” shortcode to include a nice list of photos into any post or page on your Real Estate wordpress site. The key thing to know is that the “gallery” code will display every picture associated with a given post or page. Example [...]

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Install WordPress In One Click With Fantastico

Written by Ryan Hartman on April 11, 2010
Categories: ReTechtorials

Here’s how to create a wordpress install for your Real Estate website using Fantastico. ReTechulous Club Members can do this easily using the hosting provided with your club membership.

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10 Must Have Widgets For Your Real Estate Website

Written by Ryan Hartman on April 1, 2010
Categories: Strategy

I’m often asked which plugins I use on my self-hosted wordpress blogs, so in response here’s a list of my favorite widgets for use on any website, wordpress or otherwise. Please feel free to chime in with your own favorites in the comments. Must Have Real Estate Website Widgets & Plugins 1. Open House Traffic [...]

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Real Estate WordPresser – Basic HTML Stuff (Tweaking Links)

Written by Ryan Hartman on March 26, 2010
Categories: ReTechtorials

Here’s a quick tutorial explaining how to tweak the way a pdf link displays when you upload it to your Real Estate wordpress site.

Real Estate WordPresser SEO Basics… (Very Basics)

Written by Ryan Hartman on March 24, 2010
Categories: ReTechtorials

Here’s a quick few thoughts for folks new to using WordPress to garner lots of organic search engine traffic as part of their Real Estate Lead Generation Efforts. There’s a lot to SEO, and if you want the good stuff on this subject, don’t come to us… (Here’s a good place to start.) That said, [...]

Real Estate WordPresser 101 – Check Your Privacy Settings…

Written by Ryan Hartman on March 23, 2010
Categories: ReTechtorials

With some hosts, and depending on how you install wordpress, your realestate site might be hidden from the google and the search engines by default. In this quick screencast we’ll show you how to find the setting from your wordpress dashboard, and set it so you’re not missing out on all that juicy organic traffic [...]

“Big Broker” Website Tour – (Repost from Bloodhound Blog )

Written by Ryan Hartman on March 23, 2010
Categories: Real Estate Video Of The Day

Oh my. Can’t believe there’s no link to the world’s best Real Estate Marketing & Technology Blog Here! For the last year or so, I’ve been having tons of fun as a contributor over at Bloodhound Blog. And yesterday, when I ran into another agent who’d never heard of this unbelievable real estate resource, I [...]

Set An Image As Post Thumbnail (WordPress 2.9.2)

Written by Ryan Hartman on March 5, 2010
Categories: ReTechtorials

Here’s a quick image explaining how to access the media gallery, then set one of the pics associated with a page/post in wordpress as the Thumbnail. You can see this thumbnail concept in action over at BeniahInvestments.Com… Also, if you’re looking for a theme that allows for easy customization of post thumbnails, consider Frugal!

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