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Farm Progress Magazine Group, which include 22 magazines, nearly one million subscribers and a network of Web sites to support their publishing activities has partnered with LandsofAmerica.com. Now all your listings will also be advertised on Farm Progress Magazine Group’s websites, as well as some print exposure in their magazines. The Farm Progress Magazine Group offers the industry’s highest quality farming and ranching audience coupled with Keep reading →

LandsofAmerica.com just took over the number one result for the keyword phrase “Land For Sale’ on Google searches. While we work very hard on our search engine optimization for our clients, we realize that SEO is an inexact science and your search results ranking can change at anytime. This does bring up a bigger point that I wanted to discuss with our clients about what keywords are most important to you. Here is an easy way for you to find out which keywords are searched for the most. It is obviously more important to have your website come up first for a targeted keyword that is searched for 50,000 times a month, than one that is Keep reading →

Today you can take the Internet with you when you’re going to checkout your new land listing or driving across that ranch which sounds like the “Dream Place”. Fortunately for us that work in rural areas, the telecommunications industry is hard at work putting up one cell tower after another to make high speed internet possible in more places than ever. You don’t have to be plugged into the wall at your office or at home any longer. Grab your laptop and head to the country! Keep reading →

Welcome to the 55th Carnival of Real Estate! We are proud to host this event and select a few of the entries that were submitted to highlight for the Carnival of Real Estate. We selected the following three Blog entries that tied for First Place because of the quality of content. They each gave really detailed information that can be beneficial to most people in the real estate Keep reading →

Well I believe this is the first time ever we’ve done two blog posts in one day. We try to give each post it’s space, but we voted and decided they both deserve it. The following is a Press Release we released this morning about a new recreational real estate-focused partnership with Jeff Foxworthy’s new TV show, The Bucks of Tecomate. This partnership has already created great value for LandsofAmerica.com and it’s members. Let us know what you think. Keep reading →

Next Monday, August 20th, the 55th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate will be hosted right here on www.TheLandJournal.com. We are honored to have the privilege of highlighting a handful of chosen real estate-related blog entries from across the country submitted to the Carnival of Real Estate this week. We’ve had a few entries submitted already and we’re excited to see what the topics will be for those entries submitted throughout the rest of this week.

To submit your own blog post for a chance to be highlighted on TheLandJournal.com click here.

You might get extra credit for keepin’ it rural!

There is a new publication that is starting to grab the interest of land owners all over the country. If you haven’t heard about it from the article, The Land Report 100 - A comprehensive look at the nation’s largest landowners, the Wall Street Journal picked up from them - the name of this publication is The Land Report. You can also see the online version and it’s wealth of information pertaining to land at www.TheLandReport.com.

As you read through their magazine or website you’ll find that their experienced team has researched and compiled numerous articles and information for land owners and those that are soon to be experiencing owning their own dirt. You can read about Harrison Ford’s ranching experiences; why Ted Turner has compiled over 2 million acres of raw land; how Tom Brokaw couldn’t find the 100 acres on a river he wanted; or just Ask the Expert what your unanswered questions are you need answered.

It’s really great to see a resource available that is thorough and focuses on the land we all love. Their website changes daily so make sure to stop by - www.TheLandReport.com.

This third post from the trip I thought I’d show everyone some different photos of rural Real Estate Offices from Johnson City, Texas through Santa Fe, New Mexico and to Pagosa Springs, Colorado. There were a handful of towns in far West Texas and Southern New Mexico where I tried to locate an office and couldn’t even find one. Maybe there is an opportunity there to start one for somebody?

I’ve always wondered how much the type of office makes a difference in a rural real estate business. I’ve seen every kind of office from downtown historic buildings and homes to humble cabins to brand new classy office spaces to trailer homes to primary homes to the back of pickup trucks. Along this trip the ones I was able to capture were on the beaten path cutting through rural towns. After all, what is the one thing that every Real Estate Professional says matters most - location, location, location.

There are two questions I wanted to get your input on as Buyers and Sellers of Rural Real Esate- Keep reading →

The second post I wanted to make resulting from this trip is the For Sale signs along the way. From Fredericksburg, Texas to Roswell, New Mexico I saw only a couple signs on the highway. I didn’t even stop to take a photo to show you because I figured I’d see some others to stop for. I couldn’t believe how scarce they were across this part of the country. Maybe it’s the renewed oil production activity in this area? or the distance it is from any larger cities? or the huge sizes of these ranches that never come on the market? I’m not sure exactly why, but there isn’t much for sale any way you look at it.

There are a couple different pet peeves of mine when it comes to For Sale Signs on land for sale. Read these below and tell us what you think the perfect sign is. If you have a photo of it then email it to us and we’ll put it up for everyone to see.

The first is “Let it be seen!” I’m amazed when I’m driving across the country and see these little 2X2 signs behind some grass 50 yards off the road that someone has to be lucky to even see at all while going 70MPH down the road. If a Buyer does see the sign they have to Keep reading →

Well we made it to Colorado. It was great starting off on I-10 with an 80MPH speed limit. That comes in handy unless you’re trying to take photos along the way and have to pull off onto the shoulder going that fast. It’s quite an amazing drive seeing the dramatic changes in scenery. Around Austin it’s all hills and oak trees with most places being under 500 acres in size. The next big scenery change is after Ozona, Texas when it starts to be lots of flat areas, rolling terrain and occassional cliffs and large hills that makeup massive ranches that contain over 200,000 acres.

Most of this drive in Texas was extremely green with water everywhere due to the daily storms Texas has been having for the last couple months. Once I got up into New Mexico and Colorado it seems to have dried up quite a bit. Everything was the typical July Brown. Outside of Santa Fe the terrain continued to get more and more rugged with incredible reds and oranges in the sides of cliffs.

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