A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.

Here’s A Screencast Explaining How To Put A Sitemap On Your Real Estate WordPress Website

(Be sure to click the square at the bottom of the cast to see in full screen mode.)

(the magic is in the stuff after the slash. )

WordPress Login Screen

The key thing to know is that the “gallery” code will display every picture associated with a given post or page.

Example of how this outputs pics can be found below the screencast.

Must Have Real Estate Website Widgets & Plugins

1. Open House Traffic Creator

You do a blog post about an open house… And this plugin automatically sends an email to everyone living within 10 miles of the open house. Your traffic will soar!

2. Expired listing prospector.

Tell this widget your zip code and it’ll simultaneously ring your phone and the phone of the owner of any listing that expires at exactly 9am on the day of expiration. Prospecting for listings has never been this easy.

3. Invisible Friender

You configure this widget by telling it a few things about yourslef and your real estate practice, then feed it your Twitter And Facebook logins. This app will then “friend” or follow one person on each network daily and also post something related to you and/or your real estate service area. Social Media Marketing? Yeah, in overdrive!

4. Contract Negotiating Real Estate Widget

You feed this widget the terms of your agreement of sale and it handles the back and forth for you. It starts by sending the seller a message that reads “what’s your counter offer?”

5. Auto listing servicer.

This one requires that you also give your seller a Magicam Re9000 to place at his or her heating return vent. What this nifty little widget does is amazing! As the Magicam gathers information from the property’s circulating air, it alters the asking price of the property and updates both your MLS system and your website based on the sellers current state of mind and motivation relative to when he or she originally listed the property. Huge time saver! Never beg for a price reduction again.

6. E-Settlement Gift Purchaser

You feed this widget a number from 1 to 10 indicating the level of “PITA” displayed by your client, and it sends out a bot that crawls popular online shopping sites and picks out and emails an appropriate closing gift. The nice clients get bottles of wine and gift cards to TGI Fridays, the real PITA’s get something from this site.

7. Broker Smack Down Widget

This widget sends your broker An “I’m gonna go to KW ” email every time he gets a litle too greedy. All you have to do is include the secret word, “fee” in an email or a blog post and this widget sends the warning email.

8. Auto Internet Lead Responder.

This widget uses Voice To Text technology and is triggered whenever someone registers or sends a comment via your site. It automatically sends an email and a phone message to the registrant that says… “Hi thanks for visiting my website! I’m such a good agent that I’ve got closings back to back for the next 4 days so I’ll get back to you when I have a chance to come up for air.” You’ll never get a complaint about your response time again.

9. Bogus Name & Email Detector

This one works hand in hand with the last one and is a real must have. It takes any bogus website registrations that you receive and forwards them to the colleagues that you like to forward stuff to. So next time Heywood Jablome or Eric T Midget registers for your IDX search, your pal will get the bogus lead and a quick nonproductive 15 minutes of forwarding the registration to all his friends.

10. Active Rain Auto Commenter

And of course. The bestest for lastest. The “Active Rain Auto Commenter” comes in both a free and a paid version. Both versions query the Active Rain Featured Post Feeds and drops a comment from you whenever keywords you specify are mentioned. With the free version, your comment simply says “Nice post. I agree. ” With the paid version you also get a nofollow link back to your site. Seo Yummy!

So, are you interested in downloading these and using them on your own site? Feel free to contact me for the download links.

And thanks for reading!

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Sample Code:

[Remember to switch to "html" view from the wordpress editor ]

<a href=”fillinaddressforfileorwebsite”>Putwhatyouwantpeopletoseehere!</a>

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, we’ve found that by simply adding content to your site on a regular basis and by taking a few very simple steps every time you add a new post, you can start to grab lots of traffic for all kinds of different keyword searches.

[Like, did you know ReTechulous.Com gets 5 visits or so a day for "Youtube Farting"? Go figure ]

Anyway, here’s a quick screencast showing our take on pretty much all you need to do to implement an effective Real Estate Seo Stategy.

Oh yeah, if you want to pick up your copy of The Awesome Frugal Theme, click here to use my affiliate linkAll proceeds benefit Ruby’s college fund.

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 you deserve as a result of your consistent content creation efforts!

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 through a little note into my fancy phone – “Pimp Bloodhound On ReTechulous!”.

So here we go… as a way to keep all y’all reminded to visit the BHB, I’m going to be configuring a WP-Omatic auto feed of my own (excerpted) Bloodhound Content…

In the meantime, here’s a repost my latest. Offers a quick tour of one of our favorite Client’s Sites:

One of my favorite recent projects has been AreaAtlantaHomes.Com.

What’s most exciting for me is that the project itself is being cooked up with some ingredients that are really conducive to it evolving into the Broker Market Domination System I talked about here a few months ago:

• The Marketplace is a large Metro Area with lots of interesting geographic niche opportunities and a naturally progressive audience of prospective buyers and sellers.
• A small brokerage not shackled by the unwillingness to abandon an ineffective website it paid big bucks for a few years ago. (Starting fresh with a flexible cms like wordpress is very key here, why any entrepreneur starting a business would opt for something other than wordpress is beyond yours truly)
• A very forward thinking Bloodhound of a Broker/Owner who’s committed both philosophically and financially to providing ultimate value for new agent partners and has the patience to consider and actually execute tasks that may take months or even years to pay off.

Here below is a quick tour of AreaAtlantaHomes.Com in its relative infancy. I hope it’s entertaining and maybe a little clarifying for the folks that thought my little Broker Domination spiel was interesting…

Forgot to mention in the screencast… on that last part about the Agent Technology Package. The idea is to get prospective agents to consent to receive more info on the agent technology package, then drip them with emails designed to further sell the company. Seems that in most cases, brokers take a hit or miss approach to recruiting and few have a longer term, automatic relationship building system like this in place….

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!