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A shot across the bow

  Advanced Access is an enormous real estate website provider with around 30,000 Realtor websites. I am not up to speed on the details but apparently many or all of the Advanced Access users were penalized by Yahoo. Many of the AA users would trade links with each other and it was possibly viewed by Yahoo as one big incestuous link farm.   Advanced Access hired Greg Boser, a search engine guru, to solve their problems with Yahoo. His recommendation to AA users was to erase all state pages containing excessive reciprocal links. He viewed them as useless spam. Not all of the AA users took his advice. Many of the customers resisted because of the hundreds of man hours they put into accumulating all of the links. Others were probably… Read Full Post

I have been debating the last half hour on whether I should even write this article/blog post. I have recently made a few comments over at Matt Cutts’ blog about what Google has recently done and a few of my real estate peers thought it was a bit brave or stupid for being outspoken. I will take my chances and write about what is happening. Hopefully, someone can learn from this in the future. Will Google keep me in the penalty box longer? Hopefully not.   If you have any experience or background in SEO (search engine optimization) you know that Google likes website that have links pointing to it. A part of their search algorithm involves the popularity of the site determined by the number of other sites pointing to it via a link. With all else being… Read Full Post

Happy Holidays to everyone!  I really like the new blog design.  I will really start actively reading and participating here. Read Full Post

Take a look at this home that my firm recently sold.  It is a 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom and 3 half bathrooms with 7,556 square foot home sitting on 1/2 acre lot on Casey Key beach. The home closed last week for $8,500,000. Congrats to the team in my office who had it listed.

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Longboat Key Inventory
Longboat Key Homes - 206
Longboat Key Homes over $1,000,000 - 131
Longboat Key Condos - 473
Longboat Key Condos over $1,000,000 - 125

Siesta Key Inventory
Siesta Key Homes - 252
Siesta Key Homes over $1,000,000 - 173
Siesta Key Condos - 521
Siesta Key Condos over $1,000,000 - 136

Lido Key Inventory
Lido Key Homes - 57
Lido Key Homes over $1,000,000 - 50
Lido Key Condos - 123
Lido Key Condos over $1,000,000 - 48

Bird Key Inventory
Bird Key Homes - 59
Bird Key Homes over $1,000,000 - 47

Casey Key Inventory
Casey Key Homes - 47
Casey Key Homes over $1,000,000 - 47

Lakewood Ranch Inventory
Lakewood Ranch Homes - 609
Lakewood Ranch Homes over $1,000,000 - 114

Sarasota Inventory
Sarasota Homes - 3,093 Read Full Post

Welcome to my new blog about Sarasota real estate.  I will post here as much as time allows me. Check back often for updates.  I will keep you up to date on what is happening with the real estate market in the Sarasota Florida area including Siesta Key, Lido Key, Longboat Key, Casey Key and Lakewood Ranch.

Let me know what kind of information you will like me to keep you up to date on.  Would you like to see inventory levels of homes and condos for sale in the area?  The best buys in the area?  Feel free to email me at marc@thesarasotamls.com.

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