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I've been blogging now for about 2 years, and I'm amazed at the amount of traffic that I get from my blog and the number of people who tell me that they first heard about me from my blog instead of my website. The word blog is derived from the term "web log", or an online diary or journal. If the HBO series Sex and the City were being filmed today, Carrie Bradshaw would be a blogger as well as a columnist, I think. Why? As she experiences her revelations about life, love, and relationships, s... Read Full Post

So you have seen the hundreds of SEO consultancies out there, every man and his dog are now experts in the field of SEO but lets look at their sites and check for the deadly sins. I’m not going to name names but some of the biggest SEO companies fail these really simple steps for well optimised pages. But what are the deadly sins, well read on…[more] Washington State Resources: Richland Washington Pasco Washington West Richland Washington Benton County Washington Read Full Post

Have you considered purchasing a link from a website for traffic or search engine positioning? Well, you need to be aware of page rank being faked and how to detect it. Here is a great source for how to detect a fake page rank: DETECTING FAKE PR Once you've read the piece about fake PR, here is a place you can test it out on: FAKE PR SITE Another great source for detecting fake page rank is here and here. :o) Resources for Washington State: Northwest Inland Empire Central Washington Benton Co... Read Full Post

I’m always looking for tips on link building and am a fan of using directory links as part of the overall link building mix; usually somewhere around 3-5%. Directories are probably the oldest form of link and traffic building, dating back to Yahoo!, DMOZ, and Go.com’s directory efforts. They are also still an important part of Internet marketing in terms of site categorization via co citation, establishing a reputation by being listed with the best sites on the web, and establishing some ... Read Full Post

Success Strategies for Optimizing Online Press Release Campaigns By Craig Cannings (c) 2007 I was recently having breakfast with a good friend of mine who is in management with a large Brick and Mortar Company and the topic of Press Releases came up in our conversation. My friend questioned the real value of this medium and pointed out that Press Releases, while certainly apart of his company's communication strategy seemed to have little impact or value on their business as a whole and were ... Read Full Post

7 Residential Real Estate Market Trends for 2007: How They Impact You and What to Do The key market trends affecting the real estate market are changes in: 1. Advertising, marketing, and the media's assault on the consumer has lead to a change in consumer's expectations and tolerance levels. Real estate mediaexposure led to increased consumer activity. 2. The amount of knowledge required for an agent to be perceived as an expert on all areas of real estate, and the diversity in the market, ha... Read Full Post

Press releases were originally designed as a communication tool between company PR staff or public relations firms and the media. But now that online news sites such as Yahoo News and Google News contain such an abundance of press release content and RSS makes it easy to syndicate news, press releases can be effectively used as a direct to consumer communication tool. Not only are press releases an effective tool for distributing content to the media and consumers, they can easily be syndicat... Read Full Post

~No longer pursuing real estate as a hobby and have looked elsewhere for income opportunities.~ That is the comment I recently received from an ex-landlord unsubscribing from our property management emails. It got me thinking about a point I raise in one of our teleseminars. Successful people in real estate investing and management know they are in business. It is not just "something they do." Before I received this email, I had never thought to use the word "hobby," though. It makes you wond... Read Full Post

Two million rental houses and apartments disappeared in this country from 1993 through 2003, reports the Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. Wow! A lower supply should mean a higher demand. And a higher demand means higher rents. Put that together with higher interest rates and what should be ever-increasing foreclosures in 2007. According to a recent article in the New York Sun, 62 percent of sub-prime loans made in 2005 were made with little or no income verification. In addit... Read Full Post

It's one of the worst things to ever happen in the search engine copywriting field: the discovery of keyword density. I won't venture off into a discussion about whether keyword density is still a valid measure of search engine optimized (SEO) copywriting success. I will say, however, that the mere introduction of this concept led to the mutilation and destruction of innocent copy all across the globe. Without any regard to flow or customer experience, website owners around the world began sh... Read Full Post