What is a Real Estate Gateway Web-Page?

What is a Real Estate Gateway Web-Page?

by Brett Miller

I'm Brett Miller and I'm a domain-aholic. Yes, the truth comes out! Since the late 90s, I can't help myself from buying these wonderful groups of words with "dot com" at the end.

Domains are like great dreams for the future. Yet, most of my domains sit un-utilized, waiting for their moment to shine. Are you sitting on a treasure trough of unused domains that you keep paying for year after year? Well, there's hope for you yet!

Introducing the 1-Page Wonder: the Domain Gateway Webpage

In the old days, you could simply "park" all of your unused domains to your main website, but that approach will now get you penalized by Google who will see all these domains as separate websites all displaying the exact same data. PENALTY!

Instead of this destructive approach, consider having a special webpage built that takes advantage of the specific keywords present in each domain name itself. Create as many different key phrases that apply to this domain name and link those to your main website.

This 1-page site should not be a duplicate of another page you already host online. It should be its own free standing unique, content-rich super page that is optimized to the hilt with links "pointing" to your main website. In fact, these links are the main reason for having this 1-Page Wonder page. The more links pointing to your main website from other websites on other servers, the better for helping you achieve higher ranking on the search engines.

On your 1-Page Wonder, you want to post as much content that is applicable to the subject as possible. It's better to write new copy for these pages. If you can create a special Blog for just this domain that you will keep up and not let it go stale, this is a great idea since Google LOVES Blogs. Add RSS and XML Feeds to your page with news items that are based on your keywords to ensure that you have constantly updating content, or better yet, set up a Blog that you will enter special material just for that gateway page.

There are a lot of services coming out every day that will give you "widgets"­ snips of web code ­ that your webmaster can place right on the webpage to show Blogs and Newsfeeds. A couple of these are FeedBurner.com and SpringWidgets.com. This will give you a free flowing avalanche of new and rotating copy that you don't even have to write. A good place to find information on a 1 Page Wonder gateway page websites is at

Real estate loan - Understanding the Concept

Real estate loan - Understanding the Concept

Real estate loan is what a lot of people use to buy their home. Real estate loans have been instrumental in bringing joy to people by making that unaffordable house affordable. Some real estate investors too make use of real estate loans for buying properties. However, real estate loan is not free money and anyone who buys real estate or plans to buy real estate using real estate loan must understand the concept of real estate loan very clearly.

Real estate loan (also known as mortgage) is the money that you borrow from someone (a financial institution i.e. a mortgage lender) for the purpose of buying a property. The real estate loan generally covers a part of your purchase price and the remaining portion has to be paid by you upfront i.e. as down payment. The amount (i.e. the percentage of total purchase price) that you have to pay as down payment is dependent on a number of factors and you can generally reduce it to even 5% by going for mortgage insurance. FHA and VA loans (i.e. mortgage insurances through FHA and VA) reduce the down payment requirement on real estate loan even further. Whatever you borrow from the mortgage lender as real estate loan needs to be paid back to the mortgage lender over a period of time (and, of course, you will also need to pay appropriate interest on that real estate loan). The tenure of your real estate loan and the prevailing market rate will determine the amount of interest you pay for your real estate loan. Generally, you are required to pay back the real estate loan in the form of monthly instalments which are composed of both interest and principal portions of your real estate loan. Also, there are various types of real estate loans e.g. fixed interest rate loans and adjustable interest rate loans. So depending on what type of real estate loan you have gone for, your monthly payments might either remain constant (fixed rate) for the full tenure of the loan or keep getting adjusted periodically (adjustable rate) on the basis of a financial index. Besides that, some other costs are also associated with real estate loans e.g. there are closing costs, inspection costs, attorney fee etc. Also, in case the property needs some repairs, there will be costs associated with that too. Again, there is stamp duty and other taxes that you need to pay.