Announcing Online Client Training Sessions

There is always something to learn when it comes to improving and making the most of your online presence. Of course, we are here to help make that part easier! We are happy to announce the addition of online training for Advanced Access Website clients. Our Client Training Team has been hard at work developing curriculum for sessions on Virtual Office Features and important real estate website related topics.

Be on the lookout for these current and soon to be added topics on our calendar:

• Lead Generation & Email - Using email, auto responders, and lead generating tools with your Advanced Access website.
• 4.0 Virtual Office: Adding & Editing Pages - A guide to creating and adding a new page to your 4.0 website.
• 3.0 Virtual Office: Adding & Editing Pages - A guide to creating and adding a new page to your 3.0 website.
• 4.0 Listing Management - Managing your listings with our ListNOW Listings Management feature.
• 3.0 Listing Management - Managing your listings with our ListNOW Listings Management feature.
• Giving Your Site a "Face Lift" - Making the most of your site's layout/colors, navigation, and content placement.
• Search Engine Optimization Basics - Why search engines matter, how to harness the power of optimizing your site for your users and search engines.

Each session will be 1 to 2 hours in length and will cover the specific topic or feature indicated.

Over the next couple of months we will be beta testing a few of these training sessions. Interested? Visit our Training Classes page and sign up for an available online session. We would love to hear from anyone who has topic suggestions. To suggest a topic, email us at Training@AdvancedAccess.com.

Office Closure This Saturday

Saturday June 9th, 2007 our Customer Support Center will be open from 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM (noon) Pacific Time. Advanced Access will be taking a 1/2 day (closing at noon) to include all employees in our annual Family Picnic. We will be open for the full day on Sunday June 10th resuming normal business hours. Should you need anything, please don't hesitate to post on our member forums 24/7.

Help Removing Your Agent to Agent Links
by Anna Bourland

I was privileged to attend the recent Search Marketing Expo, SMX Advanced 2007, in Seattle, Washington this week. During the Penalty Box Summit session I was involved in some Q & A that involved real estate websites. To be honest I did not intend to ask much more than a general question, but as we dug deeper it became real estate specific. Matt Cutts of Google stated that when we see penalties occur, such as some of the recent real estate website penalties, that webmasters should take that as a sign. Matt stated that conferences and the Q & A time is the best way to publicly say that Google intends to do more about the issue. The issue at hand was the real estate industry being known for its over-zealous reciprocal linking, especially among fellow agents. It was also clarified that different industries are handled differently, and real estate is on the list right now. While recent penalties have been manual, they intend to do as much on the algorithmic side as possible. Tim Mayer of Yahoo concurred with what Matt Cutts said. What does all of this mean to you?

You are the webmaster of your real estate website. You are charged with your links and content to be current and in line with best practices for being found in search engines. As your provider we are your full-time partner in this venture and ongoing process. We are here to get you the best information for the current time and help you through our various Customer Support Teams to reach your goals for education and success with your website. For quite some time we have been advising you to take steps to remove the agent to agent reciprocal links from your real estate website. We understand that you are very busy and may not have time to take care of this on your own. We have been helping clients as requests are made for assistance in removing these links. We would like to publicly extend this assistance to all Advanced Access clients and encourage you to take advantage of it. To make this easy, we have implemented a new email address and form where you can easily request us to take care of the link removal for you. To request our assistance please complete our form at www.advancedaccess.com/removelinks/form.html or simply send an email to removemylinks@advancedaccess.com with your name, email address, and website address. A member of our team will take the proper steps to remove your "states pages" links and "link to me" form from your site and the content from those pages. We will also add the noindex/nofollow meta tag so that these pages can begin to fall out of the search engine indexes.

Please direct any questions regarding this issue or process to our Customer Support Team at 1-866-518-1571.

Most Impressive Website Contest Coming Soon!

Stay tuned for announcements in the coming week regarding our 2007 Most Impressive Website Contest and Awards!

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