News, articles, and advice for Maine real estate licensees, loan officers, and all professionals who assist the consumer in the real estate transaction.
| Posted by: | John Herrigel |
| My Real Estate Website | Post Archive | |
| Posted on: | May 25th, 2009 at 9:29 pm |
| Filed under: | Ask The Experts, Goals, Maine, Mortgage and Lending, New Hampshire, Real Estate Education, Real Estate Laws, Real Estate Licensing, The Real Estate Learning Group, Uncategorized, Your Real Estate Business |
If you have not read Real Estate Optimizing 101, I recommend reading this before proceeding.
So now that we have done our keyword research, have created a solid title for the page and sporadically placed our keywords throughout our page content, what’s next?
META TAGS
Without delving too deeply into HTML code, the basic page layout consists of a HEAD Section followed by the BODY section. All content is in the BODY. In the HEAD section is where your TITLE tag appears as well as some Search Engine specific tags known as META tags, specifically the DESCRIPTION tag and the KEYWORD tag.
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| Posted by: | Kim Fowler |
| Kim's Website | Kim's Post Archive | |
| Posted on: | May 12th, 2009 at 11:31 am |
| Filed under: | Ask The Experts, Goals, Maine, Mortgage and Lending, Real Estate Education, Real Estate Laws, Real Estate Licensing, The Real Estate Learning Group, Uncategorized, Your Real Estate Business |
There seems to be a lot of short sale confusion as to when short sale properties should be listed as pending in the MLS. The discussion seems to be around when the offer is truly accepted. Is it when the seller accepts or the bank approves the terms of the sale?
| Posted by: | Terri Perron |
| Terri's Post Archive | |
| Posted on: | May 3rd, 2009 at 6:00 am |
| Filed under: | Ask The Experts, Goals, Maine, Mortgage and Lending, New Hampshire, Real Estate Education, Real Estate Laws, Real Estate Licensing, The Real Estate Learning Group, Uncategorized, Your Real Estate Business |
I haven’t been a Real Estate Sales Agent, (officially, that is), for long, but I have been in the business long enough to know how badly this market has gotten and how hard this industry can be. Having said that, maybe it’s not as bad as one might think?
But “It’s not your Mother’s Real Estate”, that’s for sure!
Is it hard work? YES!! Is it fun work? YES!! Well, I hope it is, or you’re in the wrong business. I’m not saying that there aren’t times when it’s NOT so much fun, but you HAVE to enjoy this business to stay in it–don’t you?! Either that or you’re a sadist and enjoy self induced torture…. Ok, ok…. Really, it’s not THAT bad! Ask other seasoned Realtors®. I have; just recently. Most tell me that they are right straight out! Check out your “friends” on Facebook.com. I’ve noticed that most of my real estate “friends” have a status of “working on another offer”, “putting together another listing”, “writing up an offer and then off to a closing”, etc. Does that sound like a down market?
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