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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Craigslist Launches Blog: (Free) Accusations Ensue

Craigslist announced the official launch of their first blog today via http://blog.craigslist.org. It’s a departure from Craigslist founder Craig Newmark’s personal blog, which formerly served as a platform for Craigslist announcements and launches and Newmark’s personal musings.

It’s difficult to determine what constitutes a “real blog”, but without RSS capability and with very simplistic formatting, I have a hard time calling this rudimentary announcement page / discussion forum / random gathering of information an actual blog.


The most recent post, however, is quite interesting, and worth a read.

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

MyMarketware.com: The FSBO'S Answer to Marketing Real Estate

Marketing was once the FSBO’s biggest obstacle, but one company, MyMarketware, has developed MarketSites to help sellers overcome this obstacle by creating individual home listing web pages for a property.

Whereas other sites list several properties in particular cities, neighborhoods or even streets, MarketSites allows the seller to send buyers directly to their property. View a sample MyMarketware page here. Sellers can upload up to 100 photos of their property, embed audio and video podcasts, change SEO settings with Meta descriptions and keywords and add RSS functionality to their page. Users can also customize links to their page, and modify their link dashboard within their user accounts, allowing them to be reused for future listings:


After paying the flat $39 fee, sellers can create a URL using the physical address of the property, which is a helpful tool for out-of-town buyers who may not know the area in which they are looking to buy.

Listings are syndicated by some of the bigger seller sites like
Trulia, Craigslist, Yahoo and Google Base.
For more information and updates on the site, visit the
MyMarketware blog.

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