As a real estate professional you hear it all the time…”Consumers are turning to the Internet first to research their next home purchase.” NAR says that number is approximately 84% of all buyers. So you start thinking of how you can position your business online to help those consumers looking for homes in your area.

Although you may have found it can be tricky to stand out. According to the State of the Blogosphere, 26.4 million blogs have been created in the US. Now that doesn’t mean that your blog or general Internet presence will not be successful. You just need to make sure you are using the right tools and implementing the right strategies.

Looking for new creative ideas?

Jackpot! I have a free webinar you should attend. Cyberhomes.com has hired Randy Eagar, Search Engine Expert and leading technology trainer in the real estate industry, to teach you the secrets of some of the most successful agents earning over six figures online today. Randy will be covering little-known simple website secrets, powerful social networking strategies and lots more.

If the class topic has your attention, mark down Friday, October 24, from 1-2 pm PST.

If you do want to attend, visit this site and register.

Real Estate agents need to use graphs to show important market and housing data. The problem is all too often the charts used to illustrate an important point lack visual clarity. Well that's not the case with Fusion Charts as they provide the leading flash animated charts on the market. Well they've also created a free line called Fusion Charts Free and you can download them here. 

Fusion Charts Free supports line, column, bar, and pie charts with a web 2.0 look and feel. 

View the Fusion Gallery for Free Charts here.

Next week over at my MyTechOpinion.com I will cover how to post a bar chart in under 5 minutes on your site.

ComScore has release their November stats for Search Engine Ranking and things are much like last month. Google making slight gains, Yahoo having minor losses. Microsoft, Ask and others bring up the tail.

According to comScore, Google has retained 58.6% of all search. That's up .2% from last month. Yahoo! slipped from 22.8% down to 22.4%.  The other search engines come in with single digit showings. One of the single digit contenders was Time Warner Network growing from 4.2% to 4.5%.

These number highlight the importance of being found on First Google and second Yahoo!

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Are you setting your real estate blog apart from the rest? What are you doing special or different? NikNik over at MyTechOpinion has just published part 2 of her list on how to get readers to your real estate blog. In part 1 NikNik covered essentials like Custom Widgets, Social Bookmarking & Tagging, Comments and more. 

For those of us that are trying to market ourselves online, search engine ranking is very important. However the question always comes up, "What search engine is my demographic using?" Of course we all know how important Google is, but how far in front of the other search engines are they? What search engine comes in second, and so on? For this type information I track the U.S. Core Search Rankings.

Comscore has recently release their November report which details its October findings. See the results below:



Visit comScore for more information on this release. http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1908

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