For many that start with traditional real estate training, some of the first things that you learn about are methods such as farming and getting in touch with your “sphere of influence”.  With both of these methods you learn that you must stay in touch with them on a consistent basis so you can be at the forefront of their minds when it comes time for a real estate need.  Keeping a consistent touch will enable your sphere and farm to send you business month in and month out.  The funny... 

As we all pour through various blogs and RSS feeds striving for those great “tips” to give our website the best chance in Google we sometimes miss the obvious.  Google actually provides a webmaster help center to help you make your site easier to understand by Google.  Now, before your eyes roll into your head thinking this is like a tech nightmare with odd formulas that can only be understood by Stanford PhD’s, think again. Here is what the Google Webmaster Guidelines says about... 

First, what is a sitemap?  A sitemap is a way to let search engines like Google and Yahoo know the pages that are on your website. Now, you might say, I thought Google was supposed to send GoogleBot out to find out about all of the pages on my site, why do I need this sitemap?  Well, GoogleBot will still visit your website but it may miss pages.  Creating a sitemap can allow Google to quickly and easily add more of your web pages to their index.  And the more pages we have in the index, the greater...