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HTML Coding (in Articles and Blogs) is My Friend!

By Suzanne Roy

Services for Real Estate Pros with Move, Inc., / realtor.com

May 09, 2009 07:52 AM

Yes, it's true... I can honestly say that

HTML Coding

is my friend!

I've certainly come a long way in the past seven years of my virtual assistant home-based business - from not even knowing what html was, to using it almost in every day of my business. No longer do I fear and cower away from previously dreaded "< >" and "</>" html language and symbols, now I actually thrive off using them throughout my online projects.

Below are some of my most often used html codes that I thought I would share with you in the hopes that maybe you could start incorporating them into your virtual assistant home-based business, or any online marketing that you may do (such as blogging, article writing, etc.,):

<B>TEXT GOES HERE</B> - With this you will see BOLD

<I>TEXT GOES HERE</I> - With this you will see ITALICS

<font color="FF0000">TEXT GOES HERE</font> - With this you will see TEXT GOES HERE

<H1>TEXT GOES HERE</H1> - With this you will see

TEXT GOES HERE

which is used for Headers

<br> - This is used when you want to have a hard break in an article or blog, which is more defined than a <p>, which is paragraph code.

Adding internal links (and external back to your business website - known as backlinks) via html coding to your articles and blogs is imperative. This is a little more intense, but the copy and paste feature works splendidly well!

To add a link within your article or blog, the following coding is needed (as an example):

<a href="http://www.vawork.com/content/view/18/28/" target="_blank" style="color: #164F59;
text-decoration:underline;">Real Estate Virtual Assistant</a>

which will produce:

Real Estate Virtual Assistant

This has been given a different color and underlined to stand out in the article or blog text also.

This is just a snippet of what you can do to enhance your articles or blogs while working on your virtual assistant home-based business projects - it is extremely useful to use when creating blogs for my real estate clients and has proven to produce great results in added traffic to their websites, which in turn means more leads, and ultimately more money in their pocket, which is the whole point, right?! And more money in my real estate client's pocket means their success, which is my success!

If you haven't already, make it a resolution today to be the first day to become a lover (or at least a friend!) of html coding too.

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Kim Peasley-Parker

AgentOwned Realty, Heritage Group, Inc. - Sumter, SC

I learned HTML many years ago and now that I am blogging it is coming back. It definately can be your friend.

May 09, 2009 07:57 AM

Steve Hoffacker

Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL

Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Suzanne,

This is a great primer on some essential codes that will serve most people well when they do a post. Great job. :)

Steve

May 09, 2009 08:44 AM

Chanda Barrick

Keller Williams Indy Metro Northeast - Indianapolis, IN

in referral

If you can tell me how to get my text vertically aligned at the top of a cell, I would be forever grateful. I have searched and searched and can't figure it out! I've used valign:top and the style tag, but nothing works! It's really frustrating! Only thing I can find is it may be a browser issue, but I don't think it's that either because it does it whether I use firefox or IE. Anyway, if you happen to know of any other tricks to align to the top of a cell I'd be forever grateful. :)

~Chanda (no 'r') :)

May 09, 2009 12:16 PM

Suzanne Roy

Move, Inc., / realtor.com - Jensen Beach, FL

Hi Chanda,

Give this a try and let me know if you're still having problems:

<table>
<tr>
<td class="top">
<p>Top aligned paragraph</p>
</td>

Which will look like this:

Top aligned paragraph

May 10, 2009 01:52 AM

Suzanne, I was really hoping that would work, but it still gives the same results. :( Thanks for trying...

May 10, 2009 11:32 AM

I'm going to have to say its a problem on your pc as it worked fine for me on both IE and Flock browsers... sorry ;O(

Suzanne

May 11, 2009 02:08 AM

Figured it out. User error. :)

May 11, 2009 02:43 AM

Michael Sahlman

www.HomesForVIPs.com - Keller Williams Realty - Miami Beach, FL

e-PRO - Miami Beach Florida Luxury Homes

thanks this was a great tip. I forgot how to use HTML. Now I just have to figure out how to insert it into Facebook through the Static FBML application.

Apr 18, 2010 05:22 AM

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