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Global Edge just broke the story that Rightmove is to list private sellers.

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Search Engine Land recently posted 7 tips for B2B SEO in times of recession and we think they are worthy of summarising for all.

Understand the changing landscape

Understand the long tail, are you speaking to it. Look at the changes and see what is more suited to these changes, think Lettings. Thus keywords [...]

My recent trip at the expo confirmed to me what I believe we all have long realised, agents, industry professionals and commentators all need to communicate more.

Active Rain is a perfect example of how all sectors of the industry communicate together in the USA and I have long bemoaned the fact there isn’t [...]

It is no secret that I rate the guys at 1000watt and therefore I would implore you to read the recent report entitled, the top ten real estate websites in America.

‘A desert of lost opportunity’ states the report and no more so is there a mass of opportunity than in the [...]

Early days as apparently more and more properties are being uploaded and as the Rat and Mouse point out it is very much in Beta. But is it just another portal or does it offer something more?

We will have a play around and see what we think, but in the meantime I [...]

The Negotiator has a good report on the pressure being applied by the larger agents on Rightmove.

But what is very interesting from this post is the following:

‘…Grenville Turner, chief executive of Countrywide, confirms that he is in negotiations with most of the property portals about the group’s future relationship with them.

He says the negotiations [...]

A recent letter to all Rightmove agents has sparked a few blogs and many comments. Indeed, the EAT headline by claiming up to 60 Rightmove jobs will go.

The familiar Rightmove bashing is of course now going on, but I thought I would just share the letter with you verbatim so you can [...]

A recent anonymous comment on our blog got a little confused between blogs and forums and what was good practice.

This confusion got me thinking about the debate going on over on the EAT forums (which are still be spammed I hasten to add)? The forums are having an internal debate about users [...]

The man in the bad suit is still there.

A charming Scottish lady from the NAEA ‘promised’ me at the estate agency expo that propertylive would be live on Friday last. I asked if I could quote her on that and she laughingly said that they had brought the developers with them and [...]

As you may have guessed, I was at the estate agency expo yesterday (Wednesday) and I must say that the general atmosphere was at first a little hard to describe. There were very few agents present, less than half the exhibitors than last year and the exhibitors that were in attendance were primarily technology [...]