Tag Archives: Blogging
Realtors versus the MLS and the Real Estate Board
“Disclosure” in the context of online advertising means (i) advertising that contains the firm’s licensed name, the city and state in which the firm’s main office is located and the jurisdiction in which the firm holds a license or (ii) advertising that contains the licensee name, the name of the firm with which the licensee is active, the city and state in which the licensee’s office is located and the jurisdiction in which the licensee holds a license.
…In the age of the long-tail and the insatiable urge and demand for more information, we’re limiting the description of the properties we are marketing to 500 characters of text – no links, just text. (text is boring and so 1999 ) For now, the best we can do is try to educate the public to do their due diligence … tell them to Google the address … and do our very best to ensure that one of our pages comes up … in this case, the number one result is Trulia (get that, MLS committees? Continue reading
Bloggers and Their Rights
Bloggers deserve protected free speech too, and it looks like Waldo Jaquith , with the help of the VA ACLU , Thomas Jefferson Center for Protection of Free Expression , and Public Citizen , is set to prove that fact (again). The time will come I suspect when a real estate blogger is going to be placed in a similar situation, whether it’s a freedom of speech issue or a journalism -vs- advertising suit. Continue reading
A Thought on Anonymous Comments
I can see the IP addresses of visitors and can track who’s saying what, but the readers can’t. (but there’s a plugin for that ) 
( see Waldo’s history with anonymous comments – particularly the cited cartoon , which gratefully, I’ve never had a problem with). So … rather than say “no anonymous comments,” here is my compromise request – Please pick a handle and stick with it – I don’t care what it is, just please be consistent. Continue reading
Waldo got Subpoenaed
Waldo Jaquith of Cvillenews has been subpoenaed for names, email addresses, IP addresses, etc . … I debated putting this on the sideblog , but feel that this sort of thing deserves front page coverage, if only to express empathetic irritation on Waldo’s behalf as well as the fact that he has to spend valuable time and money on this. Continue reading
Server Maintenance Tomorrow Night
Courtesy of Bluehost : The server realcentralva.com is hosted on will be undergoing a hardware upgrade at approximately 11PM MST Monday January 12th We expect the downtime for the account to be 1-2 hours, but could be completed long before that window. … In spite of my occasional complaints about Bluehost, they’re better at what they do than I could be, and they saved my butt – big time – last year . Continue reading
What Makes a Great Hyper-Local Blog
It’s a shame that he’s ” throwing in the towel ” because the comments speak to the value that his site has brought to his community, but it’s good that the site will continue. … Two Three Four points (just read the whole thing) with which I particularly agree, and if I could copy and paste his entire post, I would, because each one is poignant.
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Realtor Incentives, Nice Areas of Charlottesville and Dual Agency – pulled from search
“Charlottesville” technically means “the City of Charlottesville,” but has come to mean Charlottesville, Albemarle County that surrounds it as well as parts of Nelson County, Fluvanna County, Greene County, even parts of Orange County. discount real estate services buyers Charlottesville – Discount from what ? … ngic mailing – I think it’s safe to assume based on the volume of searches coming to my site that a mailing was recently sent out to the NGIC folks ( start here! Continue reading
A New Theme
If you read only via RSS, I thank you and I’m much the same. (please take a moment to visit and let me know your thoughts) A few changes – – Added widgets to some of my various profiles. … – Eventually I’ll display an updating graph charting the region’s median prices – I’m working on the color scheme, but really want to have a simple, clean look with the focus being on the content and the contact. Continue reading
