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Facebook Timeline Is Here

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There is lots of talk about Facebook’s new Timeline. As usual there are those that will love it (a nostalgic trip back in time )and those that will hate it (a bit terrifying to see posts from the early days ).

To make things easier Facebook has given you a seven-day review period. Once you upgraded you’ll be able to work through your Timeline, with options to make it public, hide or it or delete what you rather just forget. If there is a post in your Timeline that you don’t want to delete completely, but don’t want anyone to see, you can change the post’s visibility to “Only Me.”

But there is no sense holding out — Timeline will eventually go live for everyone so you might as well jump right in and set it up as you want it to be seen.

Here are a few links to help get you started:

Facebook Blog:
https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150408488962131

How to Master Facebook in 5 Quick Minutes
http://www.windows-iso.com/how-to-master-facebook-timeline-in-5-quick-minutes/

Facebook Timeline Tips and Tricks
http://mashable.com/2011/10/14/facebook-timeline-tips-tricks/

Contact MarkedSpot Designs for help creating your personal or business Facebook page.

Client Testimonials on Yelp and Zillow

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“It’s word of mouth– amplified”.

Ask your clients to post a review online. Two great places to start are Yelp and Zillow.
Both sites will require your client to have an account, but it only takes a few minutes.

Clients can review your profile on Zillow by going to http://www.zillow.com/directory/real-estate-agents, searching for your name and clicking on Review.

Client Review on Zillow

For Yelp, they can go to the homepage http://www.yelp.com and enter your name in the search field.

Of course, if you don’t have an account your clients won’t be able to find you.

New Real Estate Website and Blog

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Just launched!


East Bay Real Estate Team Heidi Long and Dana Cordeiro, Top Producing agents in the East Bay along with Jerry Long and Emma Morris, the www.LongCordeiroTeam.com.

The clients wanted to start out the year with a fresh new look for the team website, with a Fresh Approach to East Bay Real Estate, that included a blog with great information about East Bay Neighborhoods, the East Bay Real Estate Market and some fun topics on “What’s for Dinner” and “Out on the Town”.

Drop by and check it out – www.LongCordeiroTeam.com

Google Maps and Real Estate

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Google Real Estate?
Interesting news and definitely something to keep an eye on.

Google made an interesting move by rolling out individual “place pages” for every property that’s listed in Google Maps. A unique page for every listing that includes photos, a map (including Street View) property details, directions, transit information and more – basically, it’s a listing detail page.

“Clicking the “more info” link next to a listing takes you to a faster, easier-to-read page that gives you all of the information we have about a listing: photos, inspection times, videos, details, a Street View preview and nearby public transit information if available, allowing you to quickly find the listing you want and click through to the sources of the listing.” – Google

Just another reason to make sure your listings are getting on Google Maps – Google Real Estate

It’s Official Google Does NOT Use Keyword Meta Tag

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Matt Cutts at Google makes it official: “Google uses over two hundred signals in our web search rankings, but the keywords meta tag is not currently one of them, and I don’t believe it will be.”

All I can say is Thank you Google for finally making it official.

I am by no means a pro at SEO but I do my best to stay on top of what can help and what can hurt your search engine rankings. And I can’t tell you how many times while discussing on-site SEO that I will hear “but I have all of the keywords in the meta tag” why isn’t it working?!” I wish it were that easy.

But don’t get this wrong. This is not the key WORDS in the content – As I have been saying all along ..
Keywords don’t need to be used in your meta tags, but they need to be used in your content, title and header tags.

Read more about how “Google doesn’t use the “keywords” meta tag in our web search ranking” on the “Official Google Webmaster Blog” (can’t get more official than that).

Finding the Perfect Domain Name

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Finding A Domain Name

Finding  the perfect name for your website is getting harder every day with many of the good domains already taken. And it’s not just the one website. Just when you’ve  finally found the perfect domain for your website  it’s time to start the search over again for your  blog or  maybe a specialty website for a particular neighborhood or niche.

Here are a few tools that might help in your search for the perfect domain name.

DOMIZE is a fast and private search engine that you can use to rapidly check the availability of domains. http://www.domize.com

DOMAI.NR
Nowadays, it’s difficult to find a domain name that end with the popular .com, .net, and .org. Domainr helps you explore other TLD’s that have made popular websites like last.fm and del.icio.us stand out from the crowd. Searches will also include popular top-level domains that are available. http://domai.nr/

DOT-O-MATOR is a web tool that suggests site names based on prefixes and suffixes that you’ve entered (keywords). You can also use a category of prefixes (like “Tech” or “Homes”) and suffixes (like “Real Estate” or “Web 2.0 words”) to generate suggested site names for you. It’s a helpful tool for, at the very least, obtaining inspiration for a site name. http://www.dotomator.com/

STUCKDOMAINS is a database of expired domain names that previous owners have not renewed. Definitely worth a look. Remember the domain craze a few years back when everyone was buying up as many domain names as they could think of.  http://www.stuckdomains.com

Other domain names tools:
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