On Saturdays I will be posting much lighter articles and will be sharing what is know as “link love” with other websites and blogs. If you have interesting and real estate related blog e-mail me and I may feature it in one of my Saturday posts.

Today I would like to bring to your attention two different online forums I am a member of:

• Real Estate Webmasters Community- I have just recently discovered this forum but I am already very impressed with the amount of great information that can be found there. Whether you have a design questions or need some advise about your pay per click advertising you can find answers to your problem there. Great community and support. Highly recommend for real estate agents and real estate webmasters.
• Real Estate Forums- I have joined this community back in 2006. Great place for real estate agents to exchange their experience. While they have few forums that are dedicated to subjects like advertising and search engine optimization, I think this forum is more geared to wards non technical part of real estate profession.

If you are a member of these forums please tell us what is your experience and if you benefited from being a member there.

If you ever plan to move to Kentucky, make sure to consider building a home instead of buying one.

Eirecon Home Builder can help you out! Eirecon has been building affordable custom or semi-custom homes since 1998 and is currently offering 18 home models to satisfy just about any taste without depleting your pockets.

At the moment Eirecon has build and continues to build homes in following Central Kentucky communities: The Paddocks, Kearney Hall, The Home Place, Garden Meadows, Waveland Estates.

In some of these communities you can build your own home for as low as $120,000!

For more information and contact details visit this Lexington Kentucky Home Builder’s webiste.

PropertyMaps, a free map based real estate search website, is gaining in popularity. According to a recent press release, the website added all the MLS listings of Naples, FL area to their database.

PropertyMaps uses real Multiple Listing Service in combination with popular mapping tools such as Google Maps, Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth. Visitors can quickly and easy search and visualize millions of real estate listings.

While anyone can use the website to search for a property, there are certain benefits real estate brokers should not pass the opportunity to sing up for free- main of them being lead generation.

PropertyMaps when working with real estate brokers, does not require any up-front cost, while offering up to 10 contacts/leads for free.

From the technical point PropertyMaps is designed very well and provides a superb user experience. Unlike ePrerks, PropertyMaps focuses its services exclusively to real estate.

In the future we will continue coverage of PropertyMaps as well as other “cutting edge” real estate websites, so please stay tuned and subscribe to our website.

Fizber.com, a real estate website  that provides "for sale by owner" services has recently introduced new feature where a seller can upload an audio file with narrative description of their properties.

From the press release:

“Some sellers are simply more comfortable describing their property verbally than having to compose a well-written description,” says Antony Fizber, CEO. “And with an audio file, the passion they have for the property will be heard by the buyer. It’s several steps up from overused exclamation points – too many sellers do this to show their excitement in a written description, but it tends to turn the reader off. Hearing a real person’s voice can contribute to the appeal of a place, too; it can really serve as the first connective step between buyer and seller.”

About Fizber:

Fizber.com is Miami, FL based for-sale-by-owner website. They offer their services to sellers all over the United States. 

Fizber.com Introduces Home Listing Audio File Upload

If you are a Realtor who has blog or a blogger that writes about real estate and related subjects, you simply must join Real Estate Community of bloggers at BumpZee.

Our blog has been a long time member of BumpZee even though we have not given this new a ever growing community proper credit in the past, besides having it’s widgets installed on our blog.

So what is BumpZee? BumpZee is a community where you can read blogs, participate in discussions, create your own communities and most importantly network with other real estate professionals. BumpZee’s membership is not limited to bloggers only, any one can join, however there are some benefits that you as blogger can not afford not to take advantage of.

BumpZee is in the top 10,000 website around the world.

To be exact, BumpZee is ranked 6,977 by Alexa. Bellow are some graphics that show BumpZee’s progress on the Internet. Keep in mind that the website is not even a year old and has already recognized widely among many leading bloggers.

If your real estate blog needs some extra exposure BumpZee is the right place for you.

BumpZee and Nofollow Tag

If you are not familiar what “noffolow” tag means just ask your webmaster about it, and if he does not know what it means, it is time for you to look for a new webmaster.

Nofollo is a tag that webmasters can attribute when embedding links to external websites from their blogs. What it does it tells Googlebot not to attribute any value to the links marked by “nofollow”. In essence using “nofollow” tag a webmaster tells Google that he can not guarantee that the website he is liking to is a reliable source. So if you engage in any sort of link exchange with other websites, your webmaster should be asked to exhange links only with the websites that will not attribute “nofollow” tags to the links pointing back to your website or blog.

Well the good news is that when you join BumpZee, you will have an opportunity to opt out from “nofollow” tags pointing to your blog!

BumpZee Can Send You Extra Trafic

Since BumpZee aggregates posts from your blog, it will likely to send your way some extra visitors. While Real Estate Community is far from being the most popular one, our blog recieves decent traffic from BumpZee. In fact BumpZee is our #1 referrer besides search engines and advertising campaigns.

At BumpZee You Can Create Your Own Communities

While we hope to see your blog in Real Estate Community, after you join BumpZee you will be able to start and manage your own community. You can also join other communities as well.

BumpZee Widgets
After you join BumpZee, you will be able to enhance your blog with a widget that either will allow you to show who visited your blog recently, just like the one you see in the sidebar of our blog:

Also your readers will be able to vote (see the upper left corner of this post) for your posts, thus placing your post in the top most “bumped” posts which again can result in extra visitors to your website.

Networking at BumpZee

With membership nearing 7,000 members you will be able to connect with other like minded real estate professionals and make new friends or even find new business partners.

If you have any questions about joining Real Estate Community on BumpZee please leave your comments or e-mil us. We will be happy to help you to get started.