Create a LinkedIn Business Profile - 10/31/07 01:36 PM
LinkedIn.com is a great tool for networking. It allows you to talk about yourself and your business, link to other web content, and customize your profile URL.The suggested number for your core group is 45 trusted people you know and/or work with to build your professional capabilities and advance your career.Within
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Have You Stumbled Yet? - 10/30/07 06:48 PM
StumbleUpon is a bookmarking site that can be very helpful to your blog and/or web site. A popular social site, users can download the toolbar and then surf the Internet, giving a 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' to sites, adding them to their list of preferred sites, and recommending them to
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How to Use Bookmarking Sites to Gain Links & Traffic - 10/29/07 07:37 PM
Get More Links & More Traffic! Carl Martens asked a very good question on one of my recent posts, Top 100 Social Bookmarking Sites, on how to gain more traffic from these bookmarking sites. After you register, be sure to submit your own blog...give it five stars or whatever you can do
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Google Crawled my AR Blog Post Within 5 Minutes - 10/25/07 05:52 PM
I've had this happen on other sites, but not this fast! I know the Google spider came for a visit so quickly, because I made a spelling error on my title - arrrrrrgh! and there it was, cached for all to see. I had that error fixed within 5 minutes of uploading
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Take Advantage of a Free Web Site Report Card - 10/25/07 04:33 PM
Would you like a report card for your web site? This tool should not be used as the definitive score for your web site SEO efforts. That said, the Website Grader is fun to use and will give you some valuable insight into what is working and what is missing on your
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Use This Awesome Tool for Easy Directory Submission! - 10/25/07 12:40 PM
Check out this awesome directory submission tool! I am so excited to have discovered the Directory Submission Manager and am totally impressed with it! (No affiliation.) Not only is it a helpful tool to keep track of your progress when submitting to directories, it contains the following information for every directory: Page
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No Time? Start a Photo Blog - 10/20/07 10:40 AM
An AR blogger asked the question - Why blog when you can just show pictures? She makes a good point - let me tell you how to do that and reap SEO benefits from it. First, start a privately hosted WordPress blog. See my blog post Give Your Web Site a Huge Boost
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Top 100 Social Bookmarking Sites - 10/19/07 10:52 PM
Below is a list of 100 social bookmarking sites for your blog. They are listed (roughly) in order of importance/ranking. If you spend 15 minutes daily registering your blog with a few of the sites, you should discover that your blog is receiving a lot more traffic fairly soon. How to Use
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Give Your Web Site a Huge Boost in Google - 10/18/07 09:19 PM
I realized I haven't covered this SEO strategy yet, after mentioning it to a commenter on one of my previous blog postings. A great way to promote a web site that is languishing in the Google sandbox, or isn't doing well in the SERPs, is to: Register a new, keyword rich domain name.
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What NOT to Put on Your Web Site - 10/16/07 07:29 PM
Some of these tips are not necessarily SEO related, but if your visitors don't stay then your SEO isn't going to do you much good. Music Music is a huge turn-off to many people, especially if they are browsing from a work computer. Whenever I reach a site that has music, I
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Under the Hood: Meta Tags and More - 10/08/07 07:46 PM
Title The title is an extremely important part of your site optimization, especially the title on your home page. Decide on your top two or three keyword phrases and use them. Since real estate is geo-specific, you need to use the main area you cover in the title tag. For example,
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Optimize Your Content for Higher Rankings - 10/04/07 09:02 PM
Now that you have the warm, friendly content you wrote for your home page, let's fix it up. (If you haven’t done so, you may want to read my previous post, Real Estate SEO - Tough But Not Impossible.) Divide your copy into paragraphs of no more than 2 or 3
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Real Estate SEO - Tough But Not Impossible - 10/02/07 09:14 PM
It's a tough job ranking well on the search engines when you have a relatively new real estate web site. There are a lot of existing sites that have been there for years and just won't budge off the first page of Google. Even in my job as a search engine
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