Myrtle Beach Foreclosures

The real estate market is in crisis, there is no denying it. A disastrous coupling of mortgage companies making bad loans and people who couldn’t repay them has resulted in an excess of homes and condominiums sitting empty all over the country. One place that is definitely no exception is Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

What you probably think of when you think of Myrtle Beach is of course, the beach, the ocean, and the wonderful vacations that thousands of people enjoy there every year. Another thing you must now consider is the property available there. The mortgage crisis has resulted in dozens of beautiful condos sitting empty all over Myrtle Beach. Now is the time to buy.

If you are considering an investment property, there is no better place to consider than Myrtle Beach. Myrtle Beach has ever been popular as a place to vacation and live and shows no signs of slowing down. Right now, you can swoop in and scoop up a property that a few years ago you may not have been able to consider. Prices on these condos have dropped as much as 50% in some areas, yet many investors are still a bit “gun shy” when it comes to purchasing property. Now is your chance.

The market will pick up again, it is inevitable. Most economists agree that the market is cyclical and that things will return to how they were before the “mortgage boom.” Whenever that happens, be it next month or next year, you can be assured that your return on investment, or ROI, will be considerable should you invest in a Myrtle Beach foreclosure property. All you really need to do is maintain the property until then and you can then sell it for a major profit.

Even if you aren’t looking for an investment property, Myrtle Beach condos make for great retirement locations. Many retirees are looking for a nice, warm place to retire where they and their spouse can make the most of their time together. Maybe you’ve vacationed there in the past and thought “What must it be like to live here?” Well, now you can affordably find out. Myrtle Beach is one of the most beautiful places in the world to live, why not take advantage of the current low prices and find out for yourself? Maybe you’re simply searching for a great summer home. Once again, you can do no better than a condo at Myrtle Beach.

If you’ve ever considered purchasing an investment property, now is a time like no other to get involved. Myrtle Beach condos in particular are a virtually untapped resource that is just sitting there, waiting for the perfect investor to come by and make a huge profit. When the market picks back up again, the ROI on any Myrtle Beach foreclosure property is sure to be tremendous. Even if you are simply looking for a place to live or a summer property, Myrtle Beach condos are some of the best deals you will ever find.

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Looking for a way to drive traffic to your real estate website? Need more traffic to get more showings? Sure, you have a website up and running, but did you know that just putting up a website on the internet is not enough to increase your business? A website alone cannot do the job that you want it to. You have to put a great deal of work and time into generating traffic for your website as well.

This means that you need to be using the latest and coolest 2.0 website that gives you the opportunity to easy and efficiently market yourself to your targeted market. In this article, we will discuss eight of the top 2.0 real estate websites that you can use to drive traffic directly to your real estate website.

Before we really get into these hot and cool websites, there are a few things that you need to be made aware of. First, you have to really work at these sites. You have to use each and every one of them to really make your mark on the real estate world. At the same time, you want to make sure that for each real estate site that you are using, you are including a link back to your own website.

Why should you include a link back to your own website? Well, it is really very simple. Think about the search engines, particularly Google. Each and every day people use the search engines for a variety of different search words. Some of these words might be "real estate agent". Don't you want your own website or name to come in the search results? Of course you do, but how do you accomplish this?

By using the websites we are going to include in this article strategically, each and every day, as well as including a link back to your own site, you can increase your search engine rankings. You see, Google particularly places a great deal of stock and weight on how many link backs you have to your website. If your website address is on several different, very large and important sites, well in the eyes of the search engines, your website must be just as important and up goes your ranking.

It is ultimately important to stay active on these websites and make blog posts regularly. However, you want to be careful when you post on these sites. It is important to establish yourself as an expert in your field. Avoid going right in and posting links or sales text. Instead, answer a question, offer advice, offer a solution to a problem, and answer a need. The information should be useful, informative, and interesting. In the closing of your post, you can include your link and business information, but keep it to this area only.

Top 8 Web 2.0 Real Estate Websites

1. Active Rain - This is a Free community online that is designed specifically for helping professional real estate agents grow and promote their real estate business.
2. Bigger Pockets - This is a social networking website just for real estate agents
3. Zillow - This site provides estimates of a homes value based on comparable homes and properties.
4. Real Estate ABC - Also provides value estimates to home owners.
5. Trulia - This is a real estate website scraper. It provides a one stop shop for listings.
6. HotPads.com - This website is specifically for roommate searches, corporate housing and apartment buildings.
7. Propsmart - This is another property listing scraper website.
8. Google Base -They use their own technology, bringing a better opportunity to find Housing and real estate.

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See you all again soon!

Randy

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Seven Easy Steps to get your Real Estate Agent Web Site Rocking

How many times have you wished you knew the secret to attracting more visitors to your Real Estate Site? Do you yearn to know how to make your site vault to the top of the most popular search engines? 

If so, you really need to take a few minutes to peruse my tested and proven technique which, if adhered to, will make your Real Estate Site one of the most popular go-to neighborhoods in cyberspace.  

Simply by implementing this little known technique, you can kick back and watch your statistic counter go from 200 to 200,000 in just a couple of weeks. And as an added bonus, the knowledge you are about to receive won't cost you a penny.

The following steps will guarantee to improve search engine rankings, expose your Real Estate Site to additional traffic and can, potentially, even add to your income stream. Try this technique and you'll find that with the commitment of a little time, effort and organization your sites' rankings will show substantial improvement: 

1.         The first step is to search for at least ten popular, free blog websites.  Those related to your niche market are the best bet.  Some of the ones you may want to check out are: blogger.com, wordpress.com, livejournal.com, squarespace.com, eagent.com, real-estate-blogs.com, houseblogger.typepad.com, realestateweblog.org, find-a-real-estate-agent.net, activerain.com, and condo.com to name just a few. Conversely, you can do a web search on your own and choose from the thousands of free on-line sites dedicated to Real Estate Blogs.

2.         Record each website in a journal.  Make sure you record the password you used to sign into the blog and the URL to your personal blog from each individual site.  You should include important keywords in the blog URL (for example – if you operate a real estate company out of Las Vegas your blog URL might be …thenameyouchoose/las-vegas-real-estate-sales). You should create similar records for each of the sites you have chosen.  Keep these records in a word processing file such as MS Word or Notepad so you can easily copy and paste them when necessary.

3.         Next, create ten 500 to 1000 keyword-rich articles related to your chosen blog URL (e.g.: Las Vegas Real Estate).  A good rule of thumb is to have one keyword per each 100 words in your articles.  To simplify things, these instructions are based on your article being 500 words, with the chosen keyword mentioned at least 5 times.

4.         Now, log-in to the first blog account you created and paste one of the articles in that blog. Be sure to create links back to your website on at least half of the chosen keywords and links back to the URL of one of the free blog accounts you set up as outlined in step one with at least 2 of the remaining selected keywords.

5.         Repeat this process on each of the free blog sites using a different article each time. Then, go onto your own website where you will create one link to one of the blogs using the keyword of your choice.  It is only necessary to create 1 link from your site as the search bots will follow that link, which will bring them to the first blog where they will then follow that link to the blog you previously linked there and move onward from there.

6.         Next, go to feedburner.com where you can submit the RSS URL's one at a time in feedburner.  After you have submitted all your chosen sites you should click onto pingoat.com where you can submit the URL from your blog sites.  It really isn't necessary to submit the RSS URL, however should you decide to do so, you can also add the RSS URL on pingoat; however, you have to select that option from a drop-down menu.

7.         Finally, sit back and monitor either the stats program provided by your site host or you can do your monitoring through Google Analytics. It may take anywhere from one month to six weeks for the search engines to rank your site, but once they begin zipping from one of your created links to another, be prepared to be totally amazed.  Your site will achieve major rankings because the major search engines consider top blog sites to be authority web sites.

There really is no reason for you to stop there.  Continue your campaign on as many blog sites as you like.  The results are sure to be awesome and you will have to agree that this traffic generation method is one sure way to promote traffic to your site.   

As an added bonus, by utilizing the above traffic generation system, you can also supplement your income stream.  By registering with Google's Adsense program, where you can integrate ads into any or all the free blogs you've signed up with you may be able to pick up a little extra coin for your efforts.

As with any other internet marketing technique, results are indicative of the amount of effort put into promotion and development of a good idea.  This method of traffic generation may initially take a little planning and development on your part, but it is well worth the time and effort.  

Developing a niche market over the Internet is only the first step to success.  Savvy marketers know that in order to remain competitive in such a volatile and versatile market they must be willing to embrace any and all avenues designed to augment their chances of overwhelming success.  

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Oh, and be sure to stop back and post some comments here letting others know just how much new traffic you get! And, please share it with your network here on Active Rain so all members have a chance to read this.. I would love to see you all come back and tell me your site has blown up with traffic from this tip.. It can be applied to any Niche however, I do a great deal of marketing for Real Estate Professionals so I geared toward them... Hopefully this will hit the featured position and make it to the homepage of ActiveRain!

Randy Zlobec
Search Engine Marketing Specialist & Author  

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WEBSITE OWNERS BEWARE!

DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU

You've built your web site, you've got content on there, and you've got a product or service that's going to, if not make you rich, at least give you a comfortable income doing the work you enjoy.  So what's the next step?  Building traffic on your web site.

There are several good ways to build up your search engine presence, and I'll cover them later.  First, though, we're going to run through what not to do.  High on the list is "search index stuffing".  Back in the dark ages of the late 1990s, when solid analysis of search engine traffic direction was just getting out, there were several tricks that could be done to gimmick high page rankings; as search engine providers learned about them, most of these tricks got filtered out.  Many marketing companies still advocate using obsolete techniques like 1 point text and "meta tag stuffing" to draw search engine 'bots.  These don't work, and often do more harm than good.

One stunt that absolutely does more harm than good from that era is Automatic Search Engine Submissions.  In a nutshell, this is using a script to submit a web site to the search engine submission forms.  Most of the outfits that do this will promise you the moon, the top of the page listings on Google, and everlasting fame and fortune, for a mere few hundred dollars to submit your site to every search engine known to mankind. 

What they don't tell you is that their script is hitting those submission forms about every 30 seconds to maybe 10 minutes at most.  This is great, you're thinking.  I'll be top of the page ranks before I wake up next morning!

However, all the major search engines out there (and in spite of claims of being submitted to hundreds of search engines, there are really only five or six that matter), watch out for the same data hitting their submission forms from the same IP address multiple times.  It's the tell-tale trace of a spamhammer script, and they'll filter whatever data is submitted that way out of the search results in no time flat.  It's in their best interests to do so if you think about it – their mission is to provide information to the readers who hit the site, and provide advertising to generate revenue for their stockholders; having their search results be so easily manipulated isn't good for their business model, and so they take measures against it.   

They blacklist sites that get submitted by spamhammers, and they do it fast.  Once a site is blacklisted on a search engine, particularly Google, its value as a means of generating revenue goes functionally to zero.  Unfortunately, getting your site off of a blacklist is difficult; more difficult than it should be.  I've had to help clients of mine recover from automated search submission vendors, and it's not easy.  In two cases, the best result was to pull all the content off the site, have it rewritten, and launch a new domain name.

So, what are the good ways to get your site submitted to search engines?  First and foremost, there's doing it manually – set up a couple of hours a week to go and manually enter your site to the search engines.  If you're feeling paranoid, re-set your router each time to get a fresh IP address before submitting.   

Second, go read up on blogs and news sites and article directories on the topic of the service or product you're selling.  Notice that most of them refer back to a web site?  This is a valid strategy that uses contest of the link to determine authoritativeness, and is one of the best of them.  In similar vein, there's the "social intelligence" link sites like Digg and Reddit and del.lcio.us.

Third, and in some ways the most important, if any of your customers have a blog, and are pleased with your product or service, have them link back to you.  It's better to have the link come back from a review or article than from a static page that's nothing but links; search engines learned to filter out link farming six years ago.

Finally, remember that your web site needs to build a sense of community as well as traffic.  If your web site doesn't do that, all the traffic is doing is raising your bandwidth.  Update your content often, make sure it's written for human beings, not just for search engine spiders, and keep it topical to the product or service you're selling.  It's all too easy to get wrapped up in traffic reports and forget the real reason for your web site: Giving your customers what they want.

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What is a stigmatized home? It is a home that has had something horrendous or extraordinary happen in it. If you can sell a home that has been stigmatized, you can sell anything.

The home of Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski in Benedict Canyon, Beverly Hills is a prime example of a home that carried a reputation that made it a hard sell. The home was the sight of one of the most notorious crimes in August 1969.

Everyone has heard of the Charles Manson murders. Sharon Tate was murdered in the home by the followers of Charles Manson. It was a high profile case due to the fact that it was the home of a movie director and his wife, who was an actress. Also adding to the horrendous aspects of the crime, Sharon Tate was eight months pregnant with a baby boy.

Followers of Charles Manson entered the property in the wee hours of the morning and waking family friend, Wojciech Frykowski, who had been asleep on the couch, the members of the cult proceeded to round up everyone in the home in the living room.

Though they fought for their lives, they were overpowered and mayhem soon broke out as the Manson followers embarked on a murderous spree. Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger coffee empire, was found on the lawn stabbed a total of twenty-eight times. Frykowski, who had also made it to the lawn of the home died from fifty-one stab wounds as he tried in vain to save his life.

Sharon Tate was stabbed a total of sixteen times as she pleaded for the life of her baby and died calling for her mother. Messages were left scrawled in the victim’s blood and the atrocious crimes that were committed were followed by the murders of Leno La Bianca, supermarket exec and his wife in Los Feliz, a section of Los Angeles.

The Tate/Polanski home eventually sold for a good price but it took about twenty-five years for the hoopla over the home to settle down. In the early 1990’s it was purchased and torn down. It was replaced with a Mediterranean home of about 10,000 square feet.

Members of Heaven’s Gate’s home where a mass suicide occurred was impossible to sell. It was on the market for a long time and ultimately ended up being returned to the bank that held a mortgage on it. The bank sold it for a large loss and the home was bulldozed. When redeveloped, the address will be changed as neighbors have already changed the name of the street.

Homes that carry a reputation can be resold, however, it sometimes takes years and years for the publicity to die down enough for it to be resold. Even then, sometimes the old home must be torn down and replaced with a new home before a prospective buyer can be found.

What makes homes that have this type of past unattractive to home shoppers? Is it because deep down we believe that the homes carry bad luck or are we afraid that the souls of the murdered still reside in the home?

In some states it is illegal to omit the fact that a home has had a murder committed in it. It can land you in court as with the case of real estate agents who tried to sell a North Ryde home, where convicted murderer, Sef Gonzales conspired and murdered his parents and sister. A father and daughter real estate team have been fined $21,000 for having concealed the fact to potential buyers that the home was the scene of a murder.

In Laguna Beach, California a property appraiser that focuses on selling stigmatized properties, says that Nicole Brown’s home took 2 ½  years to sell when normally it would have been on the market for three months at the most. The home sold for far less than it was worth. The former wife of O. J. Simpson was murdered in the home along with her male friend. In a highly sensationalized trial, her former husband was found not guilty. However, the public is divided over whether he was actually innocent.

Famous homes that have been the site for a movie such as The Amityville Horror become the stomping grounds of fans wanting a glimpse of a haunted  home. The home in Amityville, New York was the one used in the film about Ronald DeFeo, Jr., who murdered his family and was said to have evil spirits that haunted the Lutz family.

Eventually causing them to flee the home and never return, the home became a constant attraction for sightseers. It has been renovated and had a change of address to discourage this barrage of thrill seekers.

Sometimes the past that surrounds a home can actually work in it‘s favor. There are buyers who do not concern themselves with a stigma that is carried with the home. They actually have been known to be interested in a home for it’s past. Rattling chains and things that go bump in the night can have a sort of mystique for certain prospective buyers.

The past of a home is not always required to be disclosed to a prospective buyer. Suspected hauntings do not have to be disclosed if there is not absolute proof there is something dangerous happening in the home. However depending on the location of the property, heinous crimes committed or a bloody past attached to a home can be grounds for a lawsuit should it not be disclosed.

So many stigmatized properties have been the subject of reluctant buyers that agents and appraisers have included this in seminars. The National Association of Realtors has published “A Field Guide to Dealing with Stigmatized Property” which is intended to help realtors deal with marketing and selling stigmatized homes.

From messy divorces to hauntings and murders, the association has come up with tips to help unload these homes. Painting and changing the whole look of the home by planting trees, shrubs, and flowers is one suggestion. However the debate is still open as to exactly what must be disclosed to the prospective purchasers of a stigmatized property.

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This will probably be one of the best articles you will read until tomorrow here on active rain when I release my secret weapon for loads of traffic using free blog sites... So, read this one and take some notes cause it will definitely help you as it did me and all my clients... I love sharing this stuff! Hey, share this with all your agent friends and family if they want really good quality traffic to their web site... It works and is a proven method for generating massive amounts of traffic in a very short amount of time to your web site...

In order to gain beneficial search engine ranking, you must utilize specific and effective tools.  It is imperative to know that proper placement within the search engine will give your company an instant advantage over your competition.  One of the most important tools to accomplish this is the press release.  Press releases are the most effective Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing strategy.

A powerful online press release and/or news article basically attracts search engine spiders in order to obtain top listings and increase traffic to your website.  Press releases that are well written and properly distributed are cost effective, yet they are the fastest method of achieving search engine success for business operators.  Press releases are currently one of the most valued marketplace of ideas.

Presently, your press release is available to millions of people with internet connections and access to search engines.  People must understand that press releases that transcend over the wires appear on services like Google News.  Dramatically alternating your press release strategy is significant in that you are able to maximize the effectiveness of the press release as a direct consumer- communication channel.  Coincidently, there are some basic guidelines to follow in order to properly execute the specific strategies for leveraging the press release into a marketing tool.

First of all, it is recommended that you practice submitting press releases whenever there is any news of impact, not only when there’s “big news.”  Secondly, when writing a press release, you should create them to appeal to your buyers as well as journalists.  Furthermore, ensure effectiveness through keyword- rich content.  Also, include in the press release specific links that can be used to dispatch potential customers to your website. It is extremely important that the press release is optimized for searching or browsing.  Subsequently, your goal is to motivate people into the sales process using your powerful press release.  Send the buyers straight to your company’s products or services.

The fact is you are trying to impress not only the reader, but also the search engine.  Regardless of your industry, each one of them possesses that particular expertise which offers productive value in the new marketplace of ideas.  Each expertise can be published in various forms such as the press release, allowing the organizations, institutions, and non- profits to gain creditability and loyalty to customers, employees, investors and suppliers.  Significantly, the content in a press release will reveal success for any company.  Each will gain beneficial search engine placement.

Although it is relevant to publish your press release, the publisher must recognize that it takes more than just compelling content to reach interested readers.  You must determine your mechanics and design of delivery of this content.  For example, as a publisher, you must consider questions like: Who are my readers?  What are their motivations? How can I entertain them while simultaneously inform them? What content will compel them to purchase what I have to offer?  Ideally, you must identify your target audience.  More over, an efficient measure for publication is to also post a release to your own website and send it to one of the press release wires.  There is a variety of options for press release wire distribution.  Fortunately, the distribution service will allow the press release to be submitted to online news services such as Yahoo, Google, Lycos and many others.  In order for your press release to reach these services, you simply place it onto a basic press release “circuit” offered by a Press Release Distribution Service.  Such services include PRWeb, www.prweb.com; BusinessWire, www.businesswire.com; or Market Wire, www.marketwire.com.  Always remember, your goal is to ensure that your release is included on major online news sites.

Based on visitor counts, press releases are among the most popular items of many Websites.  This is all the more reason to optimize your press release for searching and browsing.  In addition to creating links to a media room on your personal website to store your press release, create links to releases based on a buyer profile, products or geography.  Bottom line, to obtain a major boost within the search engine, you must pay close attention, not only to keywords and phrases but also to other search engine optimization factors.  Pay particular attention to the URL used, the words in the headline, the title tag and metatags and most of all the first paragraph of the release.

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