Worth a read for those with websites, insight into the recent changes at Google HQ impacting how real estate websites are ranked and appear in Google search results.  Spoiler alert: It's tough out there but not impossible.

Via Jeff Manson (Real Geeks / American Dream Realty Hawaii):

Have you noticed it is getting harder to rank on Google for [Area] real estate or [Area] homes for sale? The big portals are dominating the SERPs (search engine results pages) for most cities across the country.  This infographic below is the 1st of a 3 part series that will show you statistics of The State of the Real Estate SERPs as they are now and how local real estate agents are actually helping them beat you in the SERPs. The series will also go into how you can take control and start competing with them.

The more agents that become aware of these practices and how to combat them the sooner we will be able to start competing with them again. If you care about getting better rankings, it would be good to share this series with as many agents across the country so we are not at the mercy of the big portals selling traffic back to us.

Feel free to share this post socially with all your fellow agents or even grab the code below and post the infographic in other places 

Would love to hear your take on it!!



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Posted by Gabe Hoggarth on 12/14/2012 10:19 AM   Comments (2)  
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