Everyone raise your hand if you know that I AM NO EXPERT in anything tech, Internet, Google, SEO, or anything else to do with getting business. Everyone's hand up??? Good.That said, I had a request from an Active Rain blogger about getting their official blog crawled by Google. Seems that they
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09/30/2006
An earlier post sent me to Google to see how Active Rain showed in SERP, what search terms, etc. Of course, it's easy to find yourself by searching for your name and location. In the case of "lenn harley germantown", there it is #5 on the SERP. But, I figured that my name would work pretty wel
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09/30/2006
WHY WE BLOGI believe that the NUMBER ONE reason that many real estate agents and brokers blog is to bring in business. Well, why not? We do everything else we can think of to bring traffic to our web sites. We already have the computer. So, it's just a matter of focusing on adding a few senta
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09/29/2006
IT'S OFFICIAL ! ! ! ActiveRain.com will indeed send visitors to your web site. I just checked my web logs for yesterday and there it is: 176 75 0.02% http://www.relo-experts.com/agents/United_States/Virginia/Leesburg/ 177 74 0.02% http://search.msn.com/spresults.aspx 178 74 0.02% http://www.home
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09/28/2006
Yesterday, I received e-mail from a gentleman who said that, although he was not going to be ready to buy a home until the spring of 2007, since he was going to be in town on the 28th, would I please arrange a tour of a town in Maryland where he will be working?The mail was friendly enough and we
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09/27/2006
HOW TO IDENTIFY SERIOUS SELLERS - AND THE ONES WHO ARE NOTWith the real estate market making a clear transition to a BUYER'S MARKET, many home owners are considering selling now rather than later when the market value of their home may be considerably less. What is important to focus on with th
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09/26/2006
It's here folks. The Homefinders.com TV ad. It's going to be running on Comcast in Herndon and Reston starting tomorrow. See: Homefinders.com on TV . I don't know how long this URL will last. I'm going to try to get it on my server.I'm planning on doing another version with another productio
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09/25/2006
I post these stats on my web site monthly. For the first time in 6 years, we are seeing significant DECREASES in the growth of home prices. MARKET STATISTICS FOR August 2005-2006Maryland and Northern Virginia areas. Increases or decreases are for August year to year MARYLANDAnne Arundel County
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09/23/2006
Gena Reide inquired of about market conditions in areas across the country. Well, I just returned from an enlightening tour of new homes in what, up until a few months ago was a very hot area of Northern Virginia. Our office met for a couple of hours to review the new Virginia Contract of sale
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09/19/2006
I just posted a graph showing historical interest rates for the 30 year fixed rate loan. The purpose of the graph is to show Northern Virginia and Maryland home buyers who think we have high interest rates today, because we are higher than 2 years ago, that, historically, interest rates are NOT
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09/09/2006