this is not new since google updating their algos. you just need to double your effort in optimizing your site...

Apply bought NeXT because their internal efforts to build a replacement Mac OS had failed.

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I pretty much figured it was possible but way harder than what was being portrayed, and your post seems to confirm that.I would agree with what Ryan has said.Do note that you can make serious money for the effort involved.

I am looking at all my options at getting started in real estate and still in study mode to focus my efforts.

The environmentalist wackos would have us believe that we are causing global warming, in which the earth has gone up all of 1 degree in 100 years.

I agree with prior post that any effort to help is just going to prolong the problem.

Also, if an agent has not done a short sale before then it could cost them more time and effort then the return they will receive.

I know, you really don't have time to update your blog because you're too busy flipping apartments complexes for crazy cash, but please make the effort to update the blog...the hungry masses are lost without your guidance.

For if I had predicted at the beginning of 2008 we would experience freezing credit markets, bankruptcies and near bankruptcies of our largest of financial institutions, massive amounts of taxpayer monies used to "save" the financial system, the worst recession numbers since the Great Depression, unemployment at 7% and rising, mortgage defaults at unprecedented levels, "deleveraging" on a global basis -- and toss in oil going from $95 a barrel to $145 a barrel and back to $37 -- then you would have sought to admit me into a mental ward for treatment last January.