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If you are looking for a housing market with a wide range of homes for sale, then Woodland California is the place for you. Few other towns with a population of 56,000 offer such a wide range of housing choices, as illustrated by these two examples of current listings in Woodland.

The Country Estate

At the top end of the range, the most expensive home for sale is priced at a whopping $9,000,000 (Yes, I said nine million dollars). This beautiful property features two Lincoln Log style homes, an office, a barn, stable and 280 acres of producing Almond orchard.

 A total of 355 acres go with the property. The main home is 5,500 square feet and was built in 1989. You can see more details and pictures at Woodland CA Country Property.

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Yeah, that’s right, I said it.  Being on Page 1 of Google IS NOT the Goal.

Sometimes it seems we have lost site of the fact that SEO is not the goal, it is just the means to an end.

In the 4+ years that I have been involved in doing SEO on my real estate websites, I have seen the forums, companies and experts in the SEO "industry" grow and flourish. At the same time, I have watched a new generation of young, tech-savvy realtors enter the business to capitalize on the technology.

Everywhere you go, you find people giving you advice on how to get your website to rank in the top spots on search engines. Hardly a day goes by I don’t get a few spammy SEO solicitations from various "experts" or an offer from a behind-the-curve webmaster suggesting that…

I'm going to admit up front that I'm new to Twitter and not fully on board with the concept. 

I know, I know..... if I just keep doing it, a switch will come on, and suddenly I'll "get it".

Hasn't happened yet.

I mean, if I'm doing something mundane and I Tweet about it, why would you find it interesting?

And if I'm doing something really exciting, why would I want to take time out to tell you about it.  I'm busy actually doing it and enjoying the experience, aren't I?

I've seen reports in the news recently about some people being "caught" Tweeting at inappropriate times - The NBA player tweeting during a game, the Juror who Tweeted from the jury box, etc.

I got thinking about other kinds of Tweets that I never want to read, because…

This is the first time I have blogged under my own name, although I have been blogging at REW under an assumed name for years.

You see, my wife has always been the Realtor in the family, and I have been the webmaster, SEO grunt, and blog writer.  We would discuss possible blog topics, and she would provide me with some good statistics, but in the end it would usually be me pounding at the keyboard.

Since the Davis CA real estate website was branded to her, I thought it best that all blogs, links, and articles should benefit the brand. In real estate, your name is often your brand. So, regardless of who was writing the content or sending the emails, it was always under her name.

• As a side note - In the early days of SEO, when I posted a question…