Comments on: I believe that real estate agents are either in marketing or… http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/ Seattle's Leading Resource for Real Estate Information Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:47:42 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Hey! I’ve Read This Before! | agentgenius.com- national real estate opinion column http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-320754 Hey! I’ve Read This Before! | agentgenius.com- national real estate opinion column Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:27:10 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-320754 [...] to determine if this is a necessarily “bad thing.” There are myriad discussions and opinions about duplicate content’s impact on search engine results. Google had a recent blog post [...] [...] to determine if this is a necessarily “bad thing.” There are myriad discussions and opinions about duplicate content’s impact on search engine results. Google had a recent blog post [...]

]]> By: Duplicate content in the RE.NET | Real Central VA http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-320660 Duplicate content in the RE.NET | Real Central VA Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:18:26 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-320660 [...] to determine if this is a necessarily “bad thing.” There are myriad discussions and opinions about duplicate content’s impact on search engine results. Google had a recent blog post [...] [...] to determine if this is a necessarily “bad thing.” There are myriad discussions and opinions about duplicate content’s impact on search engine results. Google had a recent blog post [...]

]]> By: Go Dog Go! | Rain City Guide | A Seattle Real Estate Blog... http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-147608 Go Dog Go! | Rain City Guide | A Seattle Real Estate Blog... Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:55:30 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-147608 [...] Go Dog Go! June 10, 2007 Every once in a while, when I’m reading Bloodhound Blog I come across an idea so brilliant, so obvious in hindsight, I just stare at my monitor stupefied in amazement wondering, why doesn’t everybody do this? It’s obvious he has Dustin’s money quote hanging in his office. Maybe all that time in front of fruit computers has caused him to “Think Different“? [...] [...] Go Dog Go! June 10, 2007 Every once in a while, when I’m reading Bloodhound Blog I come across an idea so brilliant, so obvious in hindsight, I just stare at my monitor stupefied in amazement wondering, why doesn’t everybody do this? It’s obvious he has Dustin’s money quote hanging in his office. Maybe all that time in front of fruit computers has caused him to “Think Different“? [...]

]]> By: Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Time for some sleep! http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-19416 Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Time for some sleep! Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:56:35 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-19416 [...] 2) Speaking of jobs! Give this man the full-time job as the Open House blogger… With articles like this fun one on an whimsical (artist) house and timely articles like this one on the number of NWMLS price reductions. Steve has come a long way in a few weeks since he asked me how to get some traction to his blog. [...] [...] 2) Speaking of jobs! Give this man the full-time job as the Open House blogger… With articles like this fun one on an whimsical (artist) house and timely articles like this one on the number of NWMLS price reductions. Steve has come a long way in a few weeks since he asked me how to get some traction to his blog. [...]

]]> By: ARDELL http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-16973 ARDELL Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:45:16 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-16973 Thanks Dustin, Having been married to a top notch computer CTO guy for 20 years did have its advantages :-) Until my site got mysteriously crashed during the divorce ;-) Thanks Dustin,

Having been married to a top notch computer CTO guy for 20 years did have its advantages :-) Until my site got mysteriously crashed during the divorce ;-)

]]> By: Dustin http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-16968 Dustin Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:48:21 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-16968 Ardell, There are at least two or three ways to look at it. If you are using the hosted version of wordpress (as in http://ardell.wordpress.com), then you should have no problems like this whatsoever because other people are in charge of the security (and they do a bang-up job). If you are hosting a generic wordpress blog yourself and you aren't doing anything fancy, then you should also have no problems... My problems crept up because I had been fiddling with the backend and making files writable by the server when I wasn't exactly sure of the consequences. Does that help? Another option is simply to find a darn good engineer to host your files... Hacks are always a reality so having someone around to fix those issues is always a good idea! Ardell,

There are at least two or three ways to look at it.

If you are using the hosted version of wordpress (as in http://ardell.wordpress.com), then you should have no problems like this whatsoever because other people are in charge of the security (and they do a bang-up job).

If you are hosting a generic wordpress blog yourself and you aren’t doing anything fancy, then you should also have no problems…

My problems crept up because I had been fiddling with the backend and making files writable by the server when I wasn’t exactly sure of the consequences.

Does that help?

Another option is simply to find a darn good engineer to host your files… Hacks are always a reality so having someone around to fix those issues is always a good idea!

]]> By: ARDELL http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-16964 ARDELL Sat, 09 Sep 2006 22:48:25 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-16964 Dustin, Back to this thread...the whole Turk think scared me off from Word Press...don't you think? I couldn't have fixed that like you did. Great job BTW...beyond my talents, for sure! Dustin,

Back to this thread…the whole Turk think scared me off from Word Press…don’t you think? I couldn’t have fixed that like you did. Great job BTW…beyond my talents, for sure!

]]> By: How to Keep Tabs on your Search Ranking « Future of Real Estate Marketing http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-14571 How to Keep Tabs on your Search Ranking « Future of Real Estate Marketing Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:07:46 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-14571 [...] A couple days ago, Dustin’s post on Rain City Guide caused quite a stir amongst Real Estate bloggers (myself included) who became concerned about double-posting their content on more than one blog. I had been updating my ActiveRain blog with posts from this site, which may or may not have affected my standing in Google’s search engine. [...] [...] A couple days ago, Dustin’s post on Rain City Guide caused quite a stir amongst Real Estate bloggers (myself included) who became concerned about double-posting their content on more than one blog. I had been updating my ActiveRain blog with posts from this site, which may or may not have affected my standing in Google’s search engine. [...]

]]> By: BloodhoundBlog - The weblog of BloodhoundRealty.com, an exceptional-service residential real estate brokerage in Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-14375 BloodhoundBlog - The weblog of BloodhoundRealty.com, an exceptional-service residential real estate brokerage in Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:28:27 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-14375 [...] Ardell raises the question, and I had the same conversation Friday with a real estate instructor who is taking the plunge into weblogging to demonstrate to a book publisher that she can attract an audience. What she said was, “We’re going to set it up on Blogger.com.” [...] [...] Ardell raises the question, and I had the same conversation Friday with a real estate instructor who is taking the plunge into weblogging to demonstrate to a book publisher that she can attract an audience. What she said was, “We’re going to set it up on Blogger.com.” [...]

]]> By: Dustin http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-14307 Dustin Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:11:15 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/08/27/i-believe-that-real-estate-agents-are-either-in-marketing-or/#comment-14307 For everyone still interested in the duplicate content issue, I just remembered a recent video that <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9028425054136856586" rel="nofollow">Matt Cutts put together that discusses the duplicate content issue</a>. For those that don't know, Matt is one of the lead engineers in charge of Google's search algorithms, so his opinion carries more than a little weight. His response to the duplicate content issue is so relevant that I decided to transcribe the whole thing. (His response begins at 1:12 in the video). <blockquote>When does Google detect duplicate content and within which range will duplicate be duplicate? That's not a simple answer... We do a lot of duplicate content detection. It is not like there is one stage where we say "Okay, right here is where we detect duplicates". Rather, it is all the way through the crawl, through the indexing, through the scoring, all the way down to just milliseconds before you answer things. And there are different types of duplicate content. There is certainly exact duplicate detection... but at the same time, it is not the case that pages are always exactly the same. So we also do detect near duplicate content and we use a lot of sophisticated logic to do that. In general, if you think you might be having problems, your best guess is probably to make sure that your pages are quite different... because we do do a lot of different duplicate detection to crawl less and provide better results and more diversity.</blockquote> For everyone still interested in the duplicate content issue, I just remembered a recent video that Matt Cutts put together that discusses the duplicate content issue. For those that don’t know, Matt is one of the lead engineers in charge of Google’s search algorithms, so his opinion carries more than a little weight. His response to the duplicate content issue is so relevant that I decided to transcribe the whole thing. (His response begins at 1:12 in the video).

When does Google detect duplicate content and within which range will duplicate be duplicate?

That’s not a simple answer… We do a lot of duplicate content detection. It is not like there is one stage where we say “Okay, right here is where we detect duplicates”. Rather, it is all the way through the crawl, through the indexing, through the scoring, all the way down to just milliseconds before you answer things.

And there are different types of duplicate content. There is certainly exact duplicate detection… but at the same time, it is not the case that pages are always exactly the same. So we also do detect near duplicate content and we use a lot of sophisticated logic to do that.

In general, if you think you might be having problems, your best guess is probably to make sure that your pages are quite different… because we do do a lot of different duplicate detection to crawl less and provide better results and more diversity.

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