rankings: Kauai's Top 10 Brokerage Rankings Based on Sales--Updated - 10/04/08 09:14 PM
Century 21 All Islands continues to rank #1 on Kauai based on sales volume as shown in this Top-10 brokerage ranking. The Century 21 All Islands brokerage continues to have 3 offices on Kauai in addition to those on Maui and Oahu. One is located on the North Shore in the
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rankings: SEO success stories- - 10/02/08 08:02 PM
Wow! So many opinions from so many people as to what the search engines are looking for and what to do with your site. It seems it all comes down to content, links, etc, etc. I would love to hear some stories from realtors as to professionals who have stepped up
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rankings: Website Rankings - what is realistic? - 08/26/08 09:00 PM
I have been doing a lot of self promotion on the internet over the last few months. I have participated in the Active Rain community which I think is great. I have published articles on Ezine, and have had several other articles published on a site called the American Chronicle.
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rankings: SEO and Rankings - 08/21/08 08:48 AM
Whether you are new to Internet marketing or a seasoned website developer, knowing how to effectively utilize linking campaigns, website submission, and unique content will have the greatest impact on the success of your website regardless of its purpose. You are probably already aware of these marketing tools but are
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rankings: More Raleigh Rankings - 08/06/08 07:02 PM
Raleigh keeps getting positive attention in the news! In addition to the great rankings we noted recently, Raleigh has received several favorable reviews by bizjournals.com.
Raleigh was ranked #1 in "metros offering the best opportunities for young professionals". The study looked at markets that offered the best prospects for people in
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rankings: 3 SPOTS on GOOGLE PAGE 1 - Speeding Up the Ratings' Ladder!!! - 07/25/08 01:29 AM
At the beginning of the month, I was excited because my website finally hit the first page of Google. This was a major improvement from six weeks earlier when I couldn't find my website in the first 20 pages.
Now, I am almost blase about that because I have found out it
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rankings: Blogging is not a word yet? - 07/17/08 10:19 PM
Spell checking on my posts does not recognize the word blog or blogging. After checking the Webster on-line dictionary, it is there so I guess the spell checkers need to be updated. :)
The press release from Mirriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary - 2008 gave us a few of the words added for
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rankings: Cary, NC - Again One of the Best Places to Live - 07/14/08 12:26 PM
Money Magazine's annual list of the "100 best small cities to live" has been published for 2008. Again, Cary earned a top place coming in at #16. Cary typically ranks high in the list, so this was not much of a surprise. Statistics where Cary showed strength (compared to the list
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rankings: Cary, NC - One of the Fastest Growing Cities - 07/11/08 06:24 PM
In the new Census Bureau report for the year ended July 1st 2007, Cary made the list of the top 10 fastest growing cities. Cary actually made #5 on the list with a population growth of 7.3%. This puts the estimated population of Cary at 121,796.
While smaller cities top the fastest
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rankings: Raleigh Rankings - 07/11/08 06:18 PM
In recent reports in Forbes, Raleigh ranked high in two measures. First off Raleigh ranked #1 in the "top sellers market" for real estate. This was attributed to the strong local economy and continuing stability in real estate values. Although sales volume has slowed and by most Realtor's accounts we are
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rankings: New Listing, new showing - 07/11/08 06:48 AM
A new listing on the market yesterday; a showing yesterday afternoon. That is a good way to get started and is a good indicator of demand for this type house. I love it when this happens and leads me to believe our market is taking an upturn. The numbers at the
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rankings: Blog Training - 07/09/08 10:43 PM
Our Keller Williams Realty, Greenville Centeral Office is fast becomming a blogging force in the Greater Greenville Area. Today, a "seasoned blogger", Bill Kennedy, held a training session with agents who either wanted to learn how to blog, or those who wanted to blog more effectively. It was a packed session;
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rankings: Greater Greenvillle SC Area Market Update - 07/01/08 10:05 PM
Many of you may be wondering where we are in the Real Estate Market in our area which encompasses the Greater Greenville Area including all of Greenville County, parts of Spartanburg, Laurens, Anderson and all of Pickens & Oconee Counties. . Sales were up in April by 8% from previous
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rankings: There's an SEO expert in all of us - 05/23/08 10:03 AM
One of the things that is largely overlooked in an agent's website is their tracking ability. Not just their number of visitors but where those visitors come from and what terms they used to find you. I want to show you how to do a little work on your site and
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rankings: How Fast Can Your Website Drop In Rankings? - 04/25/08 04:40 PM
The Saskatoon real estate market has been extremely so far in 2008 and unfortunately it has left me with little time to continue to blog and put effort into my website. Today I checked my google rankings and was sad to see that my ranking had dropped about 6 spots. Is
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rankings: Greenville Metro Area 4th for Job Growth - 04/13/08 08:03 PM
An article in today's Greenville News provides federal data on Employment Growth for the Top Five and Bottom Five Areas with more than 200,000 in their work forces. Greenville is number 4, below Raleigh, Houston & Austin and above Huntsville. In order to "do no harm" I will not mention the
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rankings: ZIP Realty MovesUp!! - 04/10/08 10:43 AM
Real estate brokerage company Web site ZipRealty.com improved its ranking to fifth among the top-20 most-visited industry Web sites in March -- the company ranked seventh on the list in February and ninth in January, metrics company Hitwise reported.The top four companies on the list remained unchanged from February to March.
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rankings: 100,000 Points in under a year! 3rd in Illinois to Achieve this - 04/03/08 05:10 PM
Well, I finally hit it. I was going to make this a spectacular post and reminisce about how great it is to hit 100,000 points in just under 9 months. I was going to talk about all of the great friendships as well as some young and growing relations that I've made
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rankings: Raleigh, NC #1 for Business and Careers - 04/03/08 01:59 PM
Another great distinction for Raleigh, North Carolina! Forbes Magazine just named Raleigh the #1 place for business and careers. The ranking was based on a mixture of income/job growth, availability of education, cost of living and doing business and crime rates. Based on these Raleigh was named the overall best metro area.
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rankings: Want to Score Points on Active Rain - - - Follow the Rules - 03/20/08 10:35 PM
I love writing. I recieved a degree in English and Literature and Communications when I was in College. This translates to great things in AR as well. I get to serve my writing fetish by trying to post something of value. Whether it valuable to me or others is for the
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rankings: What's wrong with being #3 or do I hire a hit man? - 03/11/08 08:50 AM
AR people say that they belong for the fun. That it's not about the points. It's not about the rankings. I say that's a bunch of BS. It's about relationships, fun, the love of writing, the competition and the points. I think that it's all of it. I was a literature
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rankings: Post Number 100 - Blogging on Active Rain Really Pays! - 03/10/08 03:59 PM
From the Desk of Don Draughn, Professional Mortgage Consultant Website: http://ahfmortgage.elliemae.net/ddraughnWell, this is post number 100 and I cannot believe how fast the last two months have gone by. I have seen Active Rain put new contacts in my database and new loans in my pipeline. I recommend AR to everyone
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rankings: Alexa.com rankings, Do you know yours? your competition might... - 03/10/08 11:25 AM
I'm not the most savvy internet user out there; but, I can find my way around. I have downloaded the "alexa bar" software for my firefox browser. It is pretty awesome actually. I can always look to see what the web ranking is for the current site I'm on. For instance,
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rankings: #1, 2 Years In A Row - 03/07/08 06:04 PM
Below is some self promotion, but every now and then I just think you have to do it, so please indulge me. This is copied and pasted from an email we recieved today. Thanks! Today, Fortune named LandAmerica the Most Admired Company in the Mortgage Services industry for the second year
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rankings: How to Measure Search engine Rankings - 03/07/08 04:40 PM
So you have a web site. How do you track the progress of your site and determine weather or not it is working for you?www.webceo.com is free software that will allow you to run some fantastic reports. I won't post any of my reports here but I can email you one if
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rankings: Tri-Valley Schools: Rankings and Scores - 03/03/08 10:19 PM
In most Buyer-side real estate transaction that I handle, the question about school location and their respective ranking comes up. This is a very important factor to consider not only for buyers who have kids but for those without children, as well. Tri-Valley resale values can be impacted by the strength
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rankings: Real estate agents ~ Backlinks and a great idea at the same time. - 02/18/08 01:45 PM
Check this out, it is useful to your visitors, helps keep the earth alive, and promises to add to your backlinks.Go to my Pinehurst real estate site bottom of page and download this niffty little tool.Calculate the communting expense from your site, a $297 value for free, just click the download
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rankings: I am a Newbie! How can I climb the rankings in Active|Rain and Localism? - 01/29/08 04:27 PM
From the Desk of Don Draughn, Professional Mortgage ConsultantWebsite: http://ahfmortgage.elliemae.net/ddraughn When I first joined Active|Rain, I kept asking myself, "How can I climb the rankings for my area so I can be listed as the Featured Loan Officer for my market." I soon learned that the more points I could accumulate the higher
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rankings: Louisiana is ranked #1 for Home Inspections - 01/18/08 02:13 PM
Louisiana's home inspection regulation laws are the best in the U.S., according to the American Society of Home Inspectors.ASHI is encouraging other states to look at Louisiana's law, which scored best for its education, testing and experience requirements and for its standards of practice and code of ethics.New Jersey, Arizona and Texas
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rankings: November Search Engine Rankings Are Out...How Are Your Buyers and Sellers searching? - 12/22/07 08:56 AM
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%
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rankings: Cary, NC Ranked One of the Safest Places to Live in US - 11/22/07 06:05 PM
Cary, North Carolina was once again ranked one of the safest cities to live in the US by CQ Press. This group compiles a yearly list of the safest and most dangerous places to live based on FBI crime statistics. Cary ranked the 14th safest city with a population >75,000. This is not surprising
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rankings: Help Me Improve My Ranking... - 11/19/07 12:21 PM
I know there are a ton of helpful people out in AR, so I was hoping someone, anyone can help me with this... How can you improve your ranking? Become a featured Blog? And see whose ahead/behind in the rankings? Every little bit would help. Thanks a ton!Collette LeeBroker/OwnerTower Realty
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rankings: Blogging with us for money and traffic - 11/14/07 09:36 PM
We've now setup our blog system with a revenue share option, we thought it would be exciting to give our bloggers the chance to include their adsense publisher code so they have the option to earn from their blogs. Visit the link to find out more about grabbing a blog for
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rankings: Blogging with us for money and traffic - 11/14/07 09:36 PM
We've now setup our blog system with a revenue share option, we thought it would be exciting to give our bloggers the chance to include their adsense publisher code so they have the option to earn from their blogs. Visit the link to find out more about grabbing a blog for
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rankings: Is Google Page Rank Dead & Stinking? - 10/28/07 03:15 PM
Is Google Page Rank dead or alive? A few days ago on September 23, 2007, Google made drastic changes to its PR Ranking System, adjusting sites based upon the "quality" of incoming links. Google has made PR adjustments before, so this is nothing new. The unique fact about this PR adjustment is that the
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rankings: Moving To Nashville? - 10/25/07 02:50 PM
Are you moving to Nashville? As a Nashville Native, I can personally tell you that Nashville is a GREAT place to live! We have some of the most interesting and diverse people! From Country Music Wannabes (and the actual musicians who have made it!) to Baptist Church Headquarters to the Vanderbilt
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rankings: Google Sandbox Checker and check how you rank with your keywords - 10/16/07 08:04 PM
This website is pretty good. It can check out how you rank in the search engine findings with different keywords.You're able to check with Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Also, it has a backlink checker to help you see all the links that point to your website.You can also compare your website
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rankings: Sullivan's Island Ranked 70th in Home Prices - 09/27/07 06:54 PM
Do you want to live on Sullivan's Island?? Forbe's magazine just ranked Sullivan's Island as the 70th most expensive place to live, which was down from 64th on the list last year. The median sales price on Sullivan's Island is $1,195,000. Just last month, the largest sale ever occurred on the island.
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rankings: Blogging and Joomla and SEO - 08/12/07 01:40 AM
I recently changed my web site over to Joomla (Content Management System). As a web site designer, this was very hard for me to do and I'm still learning the ins and outs of Joomla on a daily basis. Deciding to go to a Joomla format was very scary, I'm a designer,
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rankings: Bankrate.Com Releases 2007 National Closing Costs Survey - 07/23/07 05:49 PM
Press Releases - New York State Ranks #1 Highest Mortgage Closing Costs in the US for the Third Straight Year
NEW YORK, July 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bankrate, Inc. (Nasdaq: RATE) announced today that New York State is the most expensive location in the country to close a mortgage transaction. The average
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rankings: Gloria Nilson GMAC Real Estate Named Among Nation’s Fastest-Moving Web Sites - 07/18/07 12:49 PM
The Web site for Gloria Nilson GMAC Real Estate has experienced substantial gains in traffic ranking over the past four months ending in June, according to a Hitwise report. Hitwise, a Web metrics company, monitors traffic on more than 1 million brand Web sites. Their recent report ranks www.glorianilson.com
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rankings: Credibility and clients - 05/27/07 12:19 PM
A picture of a round hay baler might seem like a funny picture to start a real estate blog. It is very relevant in an unusual sort of way. One of my three careers was running a purebred cattle operation, Tay Ridge Angus, in Canada, north of Fredericton, NB. We did that
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rankings: Houston Rankings - 03/27/07 05:58 PM
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 Houston Rankings Your business will thrive in Houston ... And why shouldn't it? Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, located in a culturally diverse metropolitan region of 4.8 million residents - and growing at more than twice the national pace. How will your company and employees
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rankings: Recent Rankings - 02/07/07 08:34 AM
Herein is a quote from Seattle real estate Blog "360 digest" and also the Business Journal that you might find of interest...."The Puget Sound Business Journal ranked the top 25 residential real estate firms ranked by residential sales volume in millions, for 2006. The top 5 were:1. Windermere ($23,709.6 / 60,200
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rankings: BIG Thanks to Active Rain!!!! - 02/06/07 03:30 PM
I would like to take the time to say thank you to Active Rain. I started working on this site as a way to get my name out there on the web and after typing my name on Google and being the first two links, I have realized that it is doing
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rankings: Smartest State and Educational Rankings 2006-2007 - 01/03/07 08:17 PM
Education State Rankings 2006-2007, was a reference book published this past year from Morgan Quitno Press, a Lawrence, Kansas-based independent research and publishing company. It awarded it's Smartest State Award to Vermont, with New Jersey placing a strong fourth (Pennsylvania was 10th). The rankings were based on 21 key elementary and secondary education indicators reported in Education
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rankings: Can blogging help your rankings? - 10/28/06 04:38 PM
I thought I'd touch on this topic a little. Not to say that I'm the best one to talk about it being that I don't listen to my own advise and blog that often. I was asked the other day by an agent if starting a blog could help their rankings with
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rankings: Quit Your Wining! - 10/01/06 10:12 AM
Last week, I sent an email to the AR guys. Not because I care about my rankings here on AR, but because I felt that I was unfairly criticized. (points removed). I provided a list of the items that are in my operations guide. It took me years to refine and
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rankings: feels weird to be a newbie - 08/23/06 03:43 PM
First time I came to ActiveRain sometime in June (btw I was invited by Ken Smith and Charles Richey, but it seams like their invitations weren't credited properly) - their title was pretty relevant to my interests so I checked them out. I didn't find anything exciting or new at that
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rankings: Interesting Observations... - 08/12/06 10:57 AM
I was talking with an agent in my office this morning about Active Rain. We went to the computer and Googled my name and her name. Well, when we Googled her name my name came up on Active Rain because I have her as one of my associates. When we clicked
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rankings: SEO FOR DUMMIES! - 08/07/06 06:19 PM
I thought I was fairly computer literature until I had to optomize my website so it could be seen or high enough in the search engine rankings. Can someone provide me with a link to STEP BY STEP instructions to perform some tasks to optomize my website. Remember, it has to
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rankings: PPC vs Content - 07/31/06 09:09 PM
Bottom line, I know about the relevance of content, content, content! No doubt about it. Not wanting to have all of my eggs in one basket (the content basket) I have been augmenting my rise in the search engines with PPC. Now I am beginning to question the need for continuing
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