Promotion Closed Tuesday October 28th, 2008 - thank you everyone for your orders

Promo hours available 25% bonus - take advantage of your dollar

It's promotion time again at Real Estate Webmasters, and this one's timeframe is quite unpredictable so you will want to act quickly.

As many of you know, Real Estate Webmasters is a Canadian company that (due to 99.5% of our clients being US based) charges in US dollars. Also for those of you who watch the markets, you will know that the Canadian dollar (compared to US) has been doing very well this year (which is bad for us) so much so, that we seriously considered increasing our rates - I however decided that I would keep prices fixed and ride out our unusually high dollar trend.

Great news - Our dollar…

As many of you know to celebrate the launch of the REW 2.0 CMS and lead manager, I am running a special that waives the setup fee (Normally $740 USD setup) on REW templates. As with all good things, the special is coming to an end.

For anyone who has been sitting on the sidelines now is the time ot act, this special ends Friday, May 23rd at 4 PM Pacific standard time. All orders must be submitted prior to this time in order to qualify for this very special pricing.

If you still don't have your REW website, and you want to take advantage of this special offer, please ensure you submit your order here.

To celebrate the launch of the new REW 2.0 platform we are offering our REW template websites with no setup fee.

Many of you missed out on the 12 days of Christmas special for REW templates well here is your chance to finally upgrade your old clunky website to a brand spanking new REW template.

So what's the deal?

Normally REW templates with the 2.0 platform are $740 setup and $480 per year combined hosting / platform fee.

For a limited time I am waiving the $740 setup fee - so act now if you would like to place your order and save yourself $740 but more importantly get a website that you can actually work with, looks good, ranks great and better yet generates leads.

What's the big deal with 2.0?

• How about a new CMS The brand new content…

Every month we convert current users of the Advanced Access website platform to the Real Estate Webmasters platform and I find myself confronted with the same questions each time - so I figured I would write this blog post to provide a convenient way for those converting or thinking of converting to get the answers they need before making the switch.

I am going to adopt the FAQ format for this post so that as more questions come in, I can update this post with those answers as well for the benefit of future readers - So let's begin.

Leaving Advanced Access frequently asked questions

Q: My Advanced Access website ranks well in search engines, if I switch to Real Estate Webmasters will I loose my rankings?

A: This is probably the biggest concern / most…

Or maybe just a little bit of fun :)

My buddy Eric Bramlett who has been really firing it up doing his own SEO lately (He is first and foremost a Realtor - or at least he used to be heh) came up with an idea for a fun contest - the "Greatest Real Estate Agent In The World Contest" (He gets a link because it was his idea - this is NOT my idea and I take no responsibility for the great relationships you may build or the learning you may experience. Also as with any attempts at experimenting with your site to try to rank it - please be sure you are familiar and adhere to Google's Guidelines For Webmasters.

Anyways - what this is, is a good old fashioned SEO contest - We pick a phrase that is not very competitive (So everyone can compete on a reletively…

Note: 50% discount time period on CMS 2.0 has now expired - Please do not use this post as a pricing guide for CMS 2.0 upgrades - instead visit the work orders forum to request an estimate.

On Wednesday, February 6th 2008 we will be launching our new backend for customer use as a beta.

We are very excited about the new funtionality that this system provides to our customers and with this upgrade this should make 2008 the best year ever for client closings from their REW websites.

This very affordable upgrade represents a complete overhaul of our backend including new CMS (With new wysiwyg editor) new featured listings management, and most importantly new lead management. Some of the more significant changes I will list below:

REW CMS: (Content…

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…

Well, it was a really long weekend - anyone following the "Not ranking for Real Estate Webmasters" knows what I am talking about. For those of you that don't - It appears that Real Estate Webmasters has been assessed a Google penalty (Dropping us a couple of pages down the SERPS) after a very long investigation and audit, and speaking to several notable search engine personalities including Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz.org (Rand you are a great friend, thank you) the general concensus is that we likely got caught up in the "paid links" net due to the fact that we do in fact sell featured listings in our directory, and technically we did provide a search engine friendly link - so although it was not our intention to "sell links" (Free listings get the exact same…