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	<title>Real Estate Web Site Design Blog</title>
	<link>http://www.imcd.com/blog</link>
	<description>Real Estate Marketing Blog for Realtors</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Real Estate Marketing Shift Continues Towards the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/14/real-estate-marketing-shift-continues-towards-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moderator</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Real Estate Marketing</category>

		<category>Real Estate Web Sites</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The National Association of Realtors released their latest real estate marketing findings at the end of March. The recent surveys showed that the marketing shift continues towards Internet marketing and away from traditional newspaper marketing.
Using real estate websites to view listings of homes for sale increased 10% from the last NAR survey. Now only 10% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Nine Step Real Estate Blog Checklist For Mazimizing Agent Exposure</title>
		<link>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/09/your-nine-step-real-estate-blog-checklist-for-mazimizing-agent-exposure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/09/your-nine-step-real-estate-blog-checklist-for-mazimizing-agent-exposure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moderator</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Real Estate Blogs</category>

		<category>Real Estate Web Sites</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is your nine step real estate blog checklist that has helped successful real estate agents maximize their blogging efforts. Print and use at least three times a week.

Title - Use keywords and attention grabber text.

First Sentence - Mirror the keywords in the title and jump right into the subject.

Length - Not iron clad, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Estate Website Navigation - Optimization Factors</title>
		<link>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/08/real-estate-website-navigation-optimization-factors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/08/real-estate-website-navigation-optimization-factors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moderator</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Real Estate Web Design</category>

		<category>Real Estate Web Sites</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A benefit of custom real estate websites is that their navigation has been optimized for both the website visitor and the search engines. Custom real estate website designers constantly monitor the two facets of a website: is it attracting and retaining leads and it the search engine seeing the site as a visitor does. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Tip For Real Estate Blogging and Neighborhood News</title>
		<link>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/07/quick-tip-for-real-estate-blogging-and-neighborhood-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/07/quick-tip-for-real-estate-blogging-and-neighborhood-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moderator</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Real Estate Blogs</category>

		<category>Real Estate Web Sites</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two quick IMC tips for maximizing your real estate blogging and neighborhood news efforts. Follow these tips and you will please both your real estate website visitors and the search engines.

1. Provide 2 to 3 internal links in your blog entries and real estate news articles. An internal link is one that connects back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micro Real Estate Niche Markets - Focused Keywords for Successful Leads</title>
		<link>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/06/micro-real-estate-niche-markets-focused-keywords-for-successful-leads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/06/micro-real-estate-niche-markets-focused-keywords-for-successful-leads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moderator</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Real Estate Marketing</category>

		<category>Real Estate Web Sites</category>

		<category>Real Estate Website Marketing</category>

		<category>Internet Marketing</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/06/micro-real-estate-niche-markets-focused-keywords-for-successful-leads/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the evolving world of real estate Internet marketing, a new and successful real estate website strategy has evolved called &#8220;hyper local&#8221; marketing. This strategy has been driven by three elements: Google (the usual given), home buyers search techniques and real estate agents&#8217; ability to build great website content base with neighborhood news tools and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Estate Marketing&#8217;s Slow Build-up To Rapid Change</title>
		<link>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/05/real-estate-marketings-slow-build-up-to-rapid-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/05/real-estate-marketings-slow-build-up-to-rapid-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moderator</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Real Estate Marketing</category>

		<category>Real Estate Web Sites</category>

		<category>Real Estate Technology</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/05/real-estate-marketings-slow-build-up-to-rapid-change/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The nature of real estate marketing today is akin to the ocean before the storm clouds appear. To the tourist the water looks great, to the old salt, the wave patterns portend a big storm over the horizon. Much of real estate marketing has not changed, the post cards, the continual meeting people live and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Your Own Real Estate News Source</title>
		<link>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/01/be-your-own-real-estate-news-source/</link>
		<comments>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/05/01/be-your-own-real-estate-news-source/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 02:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moderator</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Real Estate Blogs</category>

		<category>Real Estate Web Sites</category>

		<category>Real Estate Markets</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While the home buying market gets hammered with &#8220;national&#8221; real estate news, mortgage brokers and real estate agents are struck with the thought &#8220;It is not that bad here!&#8221; Then they notice the national news&#8217; self-fulfilling prophecy affecting the local real estate markets. Solution: Become your own real estate news source.
Real estate blogs are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Your Real Estate Website Content is King, Make Sure Links Aren&#8217;t Your Jester</title>
		<link>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/04/30/if-your-real-estate-website-content-is-king-make-sure-links-arent-your-jester/</link>
		<comments>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/04/30/if-your-real-estate-website-content-is-king-make-sure-links-arent-your-jester/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moderator</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Real Estate Website Marketing</category>

		<category>Search Engine Marketing SEO</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a real estate agent, you may feel like your real estate website is the mouse next to the sleeping Google elephant. If the elephant rolls over, it will mean more to the mouse than the elephant. Eleven months ago Google started penalizing real estate websites for certain linking strategies that once worked to improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Estate Website Designs - Custom Versus Templates Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/04/29/real-estate-website-designs-custom-versus-templates-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://www.imcd.com/blog/2008/04/29/real-estate-website-designs-custom-versus-templates-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moderator</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Real Estate Web Design</category>

		<category>Real Estate Web Sites</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Real estate websites exist to attract website visitors and convert them to warm home buying or selling leads. Real estate agents weighing the options in real estate website designs first need to decide whether to go with a custom website or a template website. This is an important decision since it affects your website&#8217;s ranking, [...]]]></description>
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