Real Estate News

Recently, if you’re active in the online real estate world you have likely stumbled across a blog, thread or website promoting a new SEO contest. The contest has quickly caught on and is already creating teams and excitement. This real estate SEO contest has attracted some of the best real estate webmasters in the world and is sure to deliver an opportunity to learn for everyone involved?

The goal of the contest is to get to the top of the first page of Google results for the keyword “The Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World”, the time frame is just over 2 and a half months and the contest ends on May 1st, 2008. Officially, the contest started on February 12th, kicked of by Morgan Carey over at Real Estate Webmasters (REW) after hearing about the idea and concept from Eric Bramlett, a Real Estate Agent in Texas.

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History has not been in favour of German real estate investment, as the fallout of reunification was sluggish for the property market for a long period of time. However, the German property market is back with a vengeance and is gathering momentum on a daily basis! It took the Soccer World Cup of 2006 to revive the fortunes of the laidback property scenario within Germany.

Germany a late entrant in the real estate business is destined for higher plateaux. Though the country is considered as much more technologically advanced than most of its European counterparts, it is the housing segment that requires cosmetic work to bring it back to the forefront of the world’s property stage.
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As a real estate professional, have you ever heard any of these familiar phrases?“I can’t get in touch with my Web designer, who wants more money every time I want a simple edit; then he never gets it done.”

“My Website has disappeared because the domain was not renewed; I cannot renew the domain because my e-mail was not used to register it.”

“We don’t rank anywhere on the search engines and never get any hits; we paid $2,500 for SEO, and were ranked on Google for exactly one day.” (more…)