How to Raise Ambitious Kids

Parental guilt is hard to shake off, no matter what decisions you make as a parent. Before you spend too much time over-analyzing your best courses of action though, it’s important to take a step back and think about what those actions may or may not be teaching your child about ambition. For example, mothers […]

3 moments that made Brown Harris Stevens CEO Bess Freedman

From juggling 100 cases a day as an attorney to switching careers and being promoted from agent to manager, Bess Freedman shared with Inman the three moments that paved her path to success.

What I’ve Learned About Working Out in VR

I set out to learn whether virtual reality games can give you a good workout, and last week you heard about a bunch of my favorites. Now that I’ve adventured through the virtual world, I have returned to you with opinions. Read more…

First American to pay $1.185M over alleged perks for real estate agents

Networking group provided video marketing of listings, bus caravans to promote listings, investigators allege.

Some SEOs Say Google Grabbing All The SEO Related Traffic

This is an SEO/SEM blog, we get some of our traffic from people doing SEO/SEM related queries in Google Search. But some SEOs are claiming that Google is sending more of those searchers to google.com sites, like the Google blogs, than SEO or SEM blogs.

Microsoft Bing Announces Make Every Feature Binary (MEB)

Microsoft announced their next AI model, a large-scale sparse model that complements our production Transformer models, they are calling MEB or “Make Every Feature Binary.” Microsoft said this makes the search results on Bing more relevant.

Sparse Looking Google Maps Local Pack With Just Directions Icon

Google’s local pack user interface and design tests have been a bit whacky over the past several days. Google is now showing a super sparse looking local pack for bus rental types of queries. Google is just showing the directions button, there is no review stars, and no website icons, no ABC label – just […]

Official Google Crawling Exam

Google has posted an exam to test your SEO knowledge on crawling. Google said this is to test your knowledge on how Google crawls and indexes websites. This is a true and false test, with explanations on why the answer is right or wrong.

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Drops Safe Browsing Signal, Core Updates Impact Images & Local & Bing MEB AI

I start off this week with the big Google webmaster report for August…

BofA views El Salvador’s BTC adoption from a positive perspective

Here is a recap of the top cryptocurrency news you might not have caught from the first week of August Bank of America sees benefits to El Salvador’s Bitcoin adoption US banking institution Bank of America (BofA) postulated in a report published last week that it sees some good in El Salvador’s decision to adopt […]

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Google Says Now The Page Experience Update Is More Than A Tie Breaker Ranking Factor

Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit this morning that the page experience update that incorporates core web vitals is more than a tie breaker ranking signal. He said “it is a ranking factor, and it’s more than a tie-breaker, but it also doesn’t replace relevance.”

Name regulations might not be so bad for multistate teams

It’s fully understandable that teams in Connecticut are frustrated at impending changes that could cost them money and branding. However, if regulation happened nationwide, some commonality from state to state could be a welcome change.

The Real Word: Are sellers spying on agents?

In this edition of The Real Word, Byron Lazine and Nicole White discuss a growing number of sellers who use spy cams during showings, the slowing down of bidding wars, and Liz Vaynerchuk-Novello’s simple strategy that makes a big difference.

Inman Review: Need more horsepower in your online presence? Try Agent Engine

From online profiles to super-sharp listing pages, Agent Engine is dedicated to refined visuals and empowering the digital age of real estate.