Do you have expert real estate or SEO knowledge that you would like to share with the world? Do it here on RSS Pieces by contributing a post to our site! Email five of your potential post topics to njames@develementllc.com for consideration. If your topic is selected, you will have the chance to share your experience with our readers and gain exposure for your business and/or blog. Don't let this opportunity pass you by-apply today!

On November 20^th, Google released a new feature called SearchWiki. This tool is meant to allow users to customize their search engine results pages (SERPs) by adding, removing, and rearranging the listings. Keep in mind that you are manipulating your personal search results, not the results of every Google user. With SearchWiki, you can:

-Move a listing up and down in your personal search results. Using the arrow icons, you can make a listing #1 or move it to the bottom of your results page. If you vote a site up, it will automatically become first in your list so it make take some finagling to get your results to appear exactly the way you want them to. Same goes for any results you vote down.

-Remove a listing from your personal search results. Don't like a particular site? You can delete it from your results page with a click of the "X" button. From that point on, that site will not appear in your results pages.

-Add a listing to your personal search results. Like a site but don't see it in your results pages? You can add a URL to your results using the "Add a Site" functionality. Then you can move it up or down in your results pages.

-Comment on the listings in your results pages. You can leave a public comment on the sites that appear in your results pages and they will be visible to all SearchWiki users. You can let the world know if a site was useful to you or not by simply leaving a comment.

For the full 411 on Google SearchWiki, read this article from Search Engine Land.

Also, watch the video below for a demonstration of Google SearchWiki:

So what does this mean for your real estate blog? Well, a feature in SearchWiki is the ability to review the notes pages for a particular keyword. These pages are meant to allow you to view the comments made on sites that rank for a particular keyword in an effort to let you know what pages are useful and what pages are not. In the future, SearchWiki notes pages may become popular among search engine users. At this point you can vote for and comment on your site's listing using SearchWiki. When you do this, you will increase your site's chances of being seen at the top of the SearchWiki notes pages. Depending on the impact of SearchWiki, we may see the votes and comments become a part of how Google ranks sites overall and it may affect your sites placement in the search engines for your keywords.  So it may be a good idea to go ahead and comment on your site for all of your keywords to get your site noticed on SearchWiki now rather than later.

See what others have to say about Google SearchWiki:

Aaron Wall of SEOBook

Michael Gray of Graywolf's SEO Blog

Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch

For those of you that know me- you must know by now there are two things I hate. 

1. Blogrolls

Read also: Real Estate Blogs and Reciprocal Linking Penalties: Does Google hate your Link Love?

2. Commenting for backlinks (That being said, since many of you do this, here are some tips)

Read also: Why commenting for traffic and backlinks to your real estate blog is a waste of time

Read more »

Want an affordable way to start blogging now? Custom blog design can take weeks to get just right, so RSS Pieces came up with an automated system for building semi-custom template blogs. These high impact real estate blog templates come in a variety of colors can be live in as little as 1 hour form the time we receive your full order and assets and offer you the greatest level of flexibility. You upload all your own images, including headers and logos, add your lead generators and customize all the text (even in static areas) through the back end of the RSS Pieces proprietary Diachronics blogging platform. It's easy, fast and affordable.

This product does not officially launch until mid July, but we are offering a pre release offering with 4 selected templates now. After the official launch you will be able to choose from tons of templates, each in a variety of colors with new templates added to our library weekly and set your blog up yourself online in less than 1 hour. These templates make it easy to switch between them, so when you are tired of your blog, you can change it yourself! Flip layouts, colors, call to action buttons, etc in minutes.

Pricing: $999 setup, $69/mo

Timeframe to live for pre-launch product: 1-3 hours

(Once all assets received, name servers are set and if no manual changes are required to the template itself)

Template Features:

• Fully SEOed templates for real estate
• Fully optimized landing pages for greater lead conversion
• Read also: Real Estate Site Landing Page Optimization: how to get your visitors to contact you
• Highly customizable layouts
• Graphically intense designs

Platform features:

• Running on the most stable, versatile and feature rich, automatically SEOing blogging platform available for real estate, Diachronics. (Our platform is written in PHP5, the only open source scripting language to pass LEVEL2 security tests - WordPress is written in PHP4)
• Read also: Learn more about Diachronics
• Custom form building features allow you to create custom lead capture forms that will automatically email you new leads and house them in your private backend database
• Read also: Generate More Real Estate Leads from your Blog with RSS Pieces Custom Form Builder
• Automatically SEOs all content to 100% search engine relevancy by selecting all keywords for you while allowing you to inject additional SEO information in category and custom pages and reconfigure your SEO settings to the recommendation of SEO experts like Michael Gray, Rand Fishkin, Aaron Wall and Stephan Spencer.
• Full backend, integrated server side statistics allow you to accurately measure your traffic and search patterns from a single point of entry
• Geolocation tools enabled so you can geocode listing posts for better search placement
• Form relationships with other RSS Pieces bloggers and cross post from your blog(s) over to a friend's blog through a single interface or aggregate all your content automatically over to other RSS Pieces agent, brokerage or community blogs.

Jamey, Prezzi, Miami Rentals and Sales Blog

Read more »

OK, I've had it.  The more I learn about this whole sordid tale, the less I like it.  So, here: let's show ePerks what the blogosphere can really do.  If you care about your fellow real estate blogger, Vlad Zablotskyy or if you just want a blog, write a post in support of Vlad Zablotskyy.  The post must be supportive of Vlad and use both his name and the ePerks name in the title.  Please refrain from slandering ePerks, just publish the information as it is understood.  Feel free to reference this post or any other post listed in this article.  It seems that with every new post, we learn more about the inner workings of ePerks.  Many former customers and employees have come forward to provide additional information which will help Vlad and provide real estate professionals with iinformation they may need to make an informed decision when deciding whether or not to do business with ePerks.

Why will I do this?  Because the more positive info we push up the engines about Vlad, the less likely the negative info that is out there can harm him.  These posts will also

This offer is good for the next 5 days (June 13 - Jun 18, 2008) - no strings - you buy the domain - we will give you a semi-custom Template blog and hosting (hosting free for 1 year)

To see the templates available for this offer go to this post and scroll to the bottom.

Get the story: ePerks Sues Real Estate Blogger, Blogosphere Unites to Destroy the ePerks Brand

Read also: Eperks: How to kill a startup

Read also: ePerks & iHype - Legal Kneejerk - Sues Blogger

Once you have written your post, click on the link below to order your free blog:

See who supports Vlad and gets a free blog:

Ruthann Macklin: Im Mad As Hell-You Will Be Too When You Read About Vlad Zablotskyy and ePerks

Kevin Wilhelm: Spreading the word about Vlad Zablotskyy and his battle with ePerks - Free Speech Issue For The Blogging Community

Susan Goulding: ePerks & Freedom of Speech?

Sean Giorgianni: Zablotskyy the Scrivener

Aaron Mallo: Suport Vlad Zablotskyy in his defense against ePerks.com frivolous suit

Hunter Jackson: E Perks Sues Blogger Vlad Zablotskyy

Mitch Argon: ePerks Sues Real Estate Blogger

Dennis Blackmore: Why Real estate Agents are Bailing out of ePerks

Barry Cunningham: Real Estate Radio

Aaron hoffman: Nominee for PR Blunder

Felipe Cook: ePerks and Freedom of Speech

Don Reedy: Stop ePerks and get sued

Debra Davis: Atlanta Homes and Condos

 Colleeen Kulikowski: How ePerks, Wake Up

Gregg and Denise Tomlinson: Eperks using questionable tactics

Benjamin Ficker: Spreading the word about e-jerks

Ginger Sala: ePerks vs Blogger: Is free speech at stake?

Scott Schang: Vlad Zablotskyy - A Martyr for Reputation Management