And you thought that setting up a website and getting your license and perhaps some alphabet certifications was enough to make you stand out in the real estate world! 

That was "then" - this is now! These days, it's all about SEO (Search Engine Optimization.)

Your website can be the best, interactive site in the world with all the right tools, but if no one sees it, it might as well not even exist. How does it get seen? Search engines. Google, Yahoo, MSN Bing and Ask.com are a few of the top ones. Take time now to submit your website's url to them: Google: http://www.google.com/addurl/ ; Yahoo!: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request/ ; and MSN Live: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx. This is only a start, so learn as much as you can about SEO.

Many people have company names that are their own names.  Current thinking is that having a geographic reference in the name is a better SEO-magnet, so www.JoesDetroitHomes.com so better than www.JoeBlow.com.  You might not want to change your company name but it's cheap to buy another domain name and have it directed to your site, with a landing page in between to increase SEO.

Commitment:  I will set my mind to learning about SEO.

Bob Corcoran

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