Real Estate Webmasters Accused of Hacking Competitor’s Forum

I just received an email from the Administrator of Pro Real Estate Network informing me that their security had been compromised and that I should log in and change my passwords. According to their post, employees of REW logged in to the Pro Real Estate Network forum by using the password of a Moderator who [...]

New DoFollow Plugin

We’ve had a lot of great response to our DoFollow OPML project. While we work on compiling the list, I thought I would go ahead and release a new DoFollow plugin. We have been playing with several different plugins lately. Of all the ones we could find, we like the original by Kimmo Souminen the [...]

The PropertyTown Real Estate Project

I’m excited to announce the launch of a new project that has pretty much consumed all of the last 5 months for us. PropertyTown is our new marketing platform built exclusively for real estate professionals. Project Background I spent a good chunk of ‘06 and the first half of ‘07 doing some consulting work for [...]

Link Whores and Liquor Thieves

I while back, I received some swag in the mail from SEO Shirts. However, being the extremely lazy blogger that I am, I never got a round to giving them the link they wanted for the free shirt. So now I’m playing catch up. Just for the record, I’m a big fan of “links for [...]

The Do Follow OPML Project

One of the things that happened over the summer while I was on my blogging hiatus was the launch of the “Do Follow” movement. For those that haven’t heard about it, it’s basically a group of bloggers who have realized that having comments and trackback links automatically default to “No Follow” isn’t really a good [...]

Toolbar Hysteria – It Isn’t Really a Penalty

Here are some posts from Rand, Andy and Daniel on today’s toolbar hysteria. What I find most interesting about all the blog posts popping up is the constant use of the word penalty. To me, that just isn’t an accurate description; at least not in the sense that anything has changed recently. Google has stated [...]

SEO Vanity Contest Winner

I know I’m way behind announcing the winner, but I didn’t think of the fact that I’d have to provide some explanation for each answer. (I should have never done 50) Anyway, the grand prize winner was Kris Farmer  from RazorGator. Kris has been a regular listener of the extremely irregular Rockstar show, and also [...]

Our City is Burning

In the 20+ years I’ve lived in Southern California, I’ve never had the misfortune of living in a neighborhood in the direct path of a wildfire. That changed this morning. On the way into the office, I got a phone call letting me know a mandatory evacuation had been ordered for our neighborhood. So Barbara [...]