Realtor with an R

[coastal]

I cut and paste from ms word "insert symbol" ®

For seo no one ever types "REALTOR®" into google so when I do use it I leave a space "REALTOR ®" I don't know if there really is any seo difference but in my mind it makes sense.

[sellinggalveston]

® the correct key stroke is ctrl+alt+R= ® in word anyway... not so much on here... LOL

[REW Anthony]

Using alt-0174 or whatever is the accepted way for writing in your everyday word processor, notepad, etc.

But..

As this is a 'writing for the web' category when you write HTML or XHTML or anything that will be displayed through a browser you should always use ® or &#174 ; (i added a space after 174 so u could see the code) to render ® signs as different people use different character sets in the world and thus using this method insures your sign will always be displayed correctly. Even when viewed on a PC where the default language is Hebrew or Japanese.

This goes for all higher ascii characters like the euro symbol, pound sign, trade mark symbol, etc.

html character entities References:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/