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Real Estate Webmasters turns 5 years old today! (April 9th 2009)

I keep sitting down to write a super long post all teary eyed about how awesome our members and customers have been over the last 5 years but honestly I am going to run out of birthday before I'm done - so I have decided to save that post for another day and just keep our Real Estate Webmasters 5th birthday promo post short and sweet -

THANK YOU!

To all of our members, to all of our staff, and especially to all of customers thank you for 5 great years.

It has been an amazing experience and we have learned so much from you all, and hopefully you have been able to learn a few things from us as well. Along the way we have developed a lot of friendships and…

Ok this just made me laugh. I was over at AR (for whatever reason I have no idea, it's not like I ever post there anymore) and there was yet another feature post "promoting active rain" - imagine that - kiss active rains ass to get on the homepage - wish I was a rainmaker.

In the article the poster writes:

"Ok I'll tell you a better reason to join Active Rain...  Active Rain gives you the power to advertise yourself anywhere on the internet.  The exposure you get from Active Rain is second to none.   I did an experiment.  For one week,  I posted about the Chicago Northwest Suburbs.  I think I wrote 3 or 4 posts with the key words Chicago Northwest Suburbs Real Estate.   Before that my website was nowhere to be found when you googled Chicago Northwest…

What's the prize?

• Limited Edition Custom website: $10,000
• Lifetime Website & IDX Data Hosting: $8400
• Full service search engine optimization setup: $6000
• 50 hours additional custom design / programming: $5000
• $15,000 PPC traffic (includes professional PPC setup and optimization)
• Total prize value: $50,400 USD

How to enter this contest (It's free)

• Refer a new member to the Real Estate Webmasters forums
• Refer a new blogger to REW Blogs
• Refer a new customer to Real Estate Webmasters
• Become a new customer of Real Estate Webmasters

Why are we doing this?

It's pretty simple really - The Real Estate Webmasters community has the most knowledgeable and friendly members of any Realtor community online.…

As any REW community member knows, a few days ago we took a hit in our Google rankings. I am still working on getting these issues figured out and it will likely be a timely process as Matt Cutts and the rest of great folks of Google have their hands full as you can well imagine with webmasters contacting them with "My site has dropped in the rankings, can you look into it" type inquiries.

I am of course concerned with getting my rankings back up to their former glory. But it has actually been really nice having a chance to turn some of my focus inward towards the REW site as a whole trying to figure this whole mess out and while I'm in here - I might as well make even more improvements to our great community right?

Speaking of our great community and…

This is the first installment in a series of posts I have promised in order to help REW Bloggers create the best blogs possible and hopefully win some really great prizes in the REW Blogs Contest.

The topic of this blog post is how to properly use the "Relevant Reading" (Formerly named "links" ) section of your REW Blog.

I renamed this section in an attempt to further educate members in terms of the purpose of this section and to help them understand that it is not just about sending yourself backlinks, the true purpose of this section is to provide your readers with access to other great external websites that cover complimentary materials to those being posted at your REW Blog.

Now the most important first step to using this section of REW… Read Full Post

This should be a good start for you Ryan :)

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