Jan Chilton

I've been in search engine optimization and working with real estate agents for five-plus years, and have always enjoyed writing and research.

I got into web design quite by accident in 1999 when I decided to make a fan site for my favorite celebrity, Davy Jones of the Monkees. I never took any courses in design, but became obsessed with it, and taught myself HTML, even down to writing tables and applying almost all of the layout and javascript usage that websites originally called for.

Because I write my websites completely by hand (using notepad) they have always been favored by the search engines. I eventually became more interested in that aspect, and once again read, discussed, and asked questions for several years to understand every fine point of SEO that is known by professionals.

I've never advertised, and in fact have never had the time available to take on extra business. Seems I was almost immediately snapped up by the local real estate and condo rental companies, and have worked for only 2 companies since 2002. I've shared my knowledge with many friends and realtors across the country, and have a group of affiliates that all work together for each other's benefit.

Occasionally I will take on a small site, but basically what I enjoy the most, and have the time to do, is article writing, blogging, and search engine optimized press releases.