Pending home sales fall further than expected in June
Pending home sales dropped 1.9% in June, and 1.9% year over year to an index of 112.8, according to the National Association of Realtors’ Pending Home Sales Index, released Thursday.
How to Talk to an Actual Person at Your Airline
Have you tried to speaking with a customer service representative from an airline lately? A perfect storm of post-pandemic demand, scheduling changes, and staff shortages has resulted in frustrated customers waiting for hours on the phone to speak to an actual human. Fortunately, there are methods that can speed up… Read more…
Kids Don’t Always Have to Share
My two-year-old started crying minutes after my oldest son unwrapped his birthday presents. He wanted to play with his brother’s newest haul of toys as soon as they came out of their boxes, but his sibling firmly refused his requests. And while I was disappointed that my oldest child didn’t want to share, I couldn’t… […]
Startup homebuilder Welcome Homes hires Compass executive
With the hire of Benjie Burford, Welcome Homes is poised to grow its personnel by 500 percent and expand into multiple markets by next year.
Riding luxury boom, Realogy reports strong growth in Q2
The company, which tallied $2.3B in revenue from April to June, says early results from its iBuyer program are strong and warrant additional investment.
You’re Probably Overcooking Your Corn
Hello, it’s me, your friendly internet corn truther, here to tell you that you are probably overcooking your corn on the cob. If you’ve been reading me for any real length of time, you know that I love to shout about how you don’t even have to cook corn, but sometimes people like their corn […]
Google: You Do Not Need To Switch Rel Nofollow To Rel Sponsored
When Google announced the new link spam update, a ton of confusion arose with that announcement. The confusion was mostly around do you need to change your nofollow links to rel=sponsored for affiliate or similar links. The answer is no, nofollow is fine and you won’t get in trouble for using nofollow instead of rel […]
Google: Generally The Localized Version Of Your Site Gets Its Own Signals
Google was asked if you have an English version of your site for years and years and then expand the site to France. So you create an FR subdomain or subfolder for the French users. Does the English version signals pass through to the French version of the site? Gary Illyes from Google said generally […]
Quiet Week After The Google Link Spam Update; Maybe It’s Being Felt Now
On Monday, Google announced a new algorithm update named the link spam update. I’ve been following the SEO chatter both in the public white hat and black hat forums, and the chatter is super limited. Very few SEOs are saying they saw ranking declines or improvements since the announcement. But now, I see some of […]
Google Fact Check Guidelines Now Disallows Multiple ClaimReview Per Page
Google has changed the guidelines around the fact check ClaimReview structured data guidelines to no longer allow multiple ClaimReview markups per page. You are now only allowed one ClaimReview element per page going forward.
On The Edge Of Google’s Quality Threshold – Pages Disappear & Return After Submission
Gary Illyes from Google posted an awesome question and answer on Twitter talking about pages that are on the edge of the Google quality threshold. He said that if your pages disappear from Google Search and then reappear when you manually submit them to Google, that means you’re on that edge.
Google Says It Does Not Ignore All Edu Links
John Mueller from Google said it is wrong to say that “Edu domains tend to have a ton of outbound links, and as such, Google ignores a big chunk of them.” He said “People who focus on .edu links usually have bigger problems to worry about, but I’ve certainly never said what you’re suggesting.”
Start here: 9 skills agents need to nail from the start
Most fledgling agents fail because they don’t master the business fundamentals and build on those fundamentals throughout their careers. If you’re new to the industry, focus on complete mastery of these skills first.
3 looming shifts that could change real estate
Increased regulatory enforcement and the ending of IC status are just a few of the possible changes that could greatly impact the way we do business. Here’s what agents should prepare for.
