seo: Links That Will Rock Your World... Seriously. - 09/29/09 09:52 PM
I don't have much time to blog these days, but I wanted to do a quick post on sites that have revolutionized the way I do business as a coach/SEO consultant/website marketer, etc...
Ready??
1. Google Website Optimizer 101 - (Absolute Must Read!! It will change your entire outlook on
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seo: BETA Release of Property Indexer... Looking For Testers! - 07/22/09 01:36 AM
I've been getting alot of questions lately about by last blog post that you can read here about my experience with getting listings crawled by Google. I want to thank everyone so much for the kind words, support and advice. about 10 days ago I was conviced that creating a "how
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seo: 15 Quick SEO Tips for Real Estate Bloggers - 05/21/09 11:17 PM
Block Duplicate Content - With the nifty All In One SEO pack for Wordpress, you can easily set your category and archive pages to be noindex/follow… meaning that Google will follow the links to the individual articles, but not index those pages which will help guard against the duplicate content
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seo: 9 Super Easy Blogging Participation Tips - 03/12/09 11:40 AM
A couple months ago, I decided to create a post on my Searching Solutions Blog that contained a giant list of blogging tips on everything from setting up an effective blog, to advanced SEO tactics. It has become a regular feature of my site, and something I update every week with
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seo: How to Break Up With a Search Engine Robot - 11/17/08 11:55 PM
People in the search marketing industry are so obsessed with search engines. All they can seem to talk about is how to please the search engines, get on their good sides, and kiss up to Matt Cutts in some way shape or form. But so many people never talk about
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seo: 10 Free Tools For Investigating a Competing Website - 10/20/08 10:15 AM
This post is a Re-Mix of a post I wrote in 2006, Formerly called: “How to Scope Out a Competitor’s Website and Learn From It.”
It’s always fun and interesting to check out what your competitors are up to. When you type in a search for your keywords, who comes
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seo: Real Estate Website Review Service (Screenshots) - 09/11/08 04:03 PM
I wanted to share some screen shots from some of the most recent website reviews I've been conducting lately.
If you didn't already know... a few weeks ago I partnered with the Real Estate Tomato to launch a professional real estate website review service. For a long time now I've recognized
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seo: How to Maximize Your ActiveRain Blog's Search Engine Ranking - 08/27/08 04:21 AM
This post was stirred out of the overwhelming number of questions I get about how to optimize an ActiveRain blog and profile for the search engines. I realize that many of you have outside blogs, and only use ActiveRain as a supplemental blog, but that is ok! Your AR blog is
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seo: Is Your Real Estate Website Eating Itself??? - 08/25/08 10:40 AM
Keyword cannibalization is an important topic with any website. It typically becomes a problem when over zealous website owners and designers decide they want to choose 1 primary search term that they want to rank for.
Definition of Keyword Cannibalization:
“The act of placing the same keywords or phrases on multiple
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seo: Branding a Real Estate Business on the Search Engines - 08/15/08 12:06 PM
The opportunities for Internet business branding on search engines has really come as a revelation to me in the last couple of years. It’s such a simple concept, but one that many SEO practitioners and companies don’t understand. This concept of branding has brought me so much enlightenment in the area
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seo: How to (Mis)-Manage Internet Real Estate Leads - 08/02/08 09:50 AM
If you’ve never checked out Chris Pollinger’s blog, you need to. His insights always impress me, and I’m a regular reader. One of his most recent posts is about why he is frustrated with the real estate industry, and it really hit home for me.
In case you didn’t know, the
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seo: How to Build Solid Incoming Links to a Real Estate Website/Blog - 05/19/08 05:19 PM
It seems like there has been alot of talk about link building lately… maybe it’s just me, but most SEO’s know that quality link building is a pretty important part of offsite optimization.
So, I thought I’d share something that has helped me quite a bit. There is a great seo
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seo: Long Tail Keywords vs. Short Tail Keywords on Your Real Estate Blog - 04/22/08 05:19 PM
Mary McKnight wrote an interesting post on why she believes that the long tail does not work well for real estate bloggers. I found it to be an interesting read… but like so many of the “how to” real estate marketing blogs out there, I found it to be too one
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seo: The Real Estate Blog Balancing Act - 10/26/07 03:43 PM
This post was stirred on by a post from Joel Burslem over at RealEstateMarketingSecrets.com. He was writing about the death of the multi author blog, and it really got me thinking about local real estate blogs.
Joel pointed out that he is often overwhelmed by the multi author blogs simply
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seo: An Update on Hittail.com -- Still a Great SEO Tool - 04/17/07 01:10 PM
If you read this blog every once in a while, you have probably heard of Hittail.com, a free service that allows you to discover “long tail” keywords, thus allowing you to optimize for those words, and drive more traffic to your site. I wrote about hittail back in November of last
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seo: Buying Links for the SEO Benefit - An Overview - 04/09/07 03:10 PM
An always controversial way to get links: Buying them. This is pretty straight forward… you decide what kinds of sites you want linking to you, and you go about purchasing the links.
Most of the sites that offer text links are very detailed in their offerings. Most listings will offer
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seo: Top 10 Most Common SEO Mistakes - 04/05/07 12:43 PM
These are some of the biggest mistakes I have seen people make when trying to optimize their websites to rank well in the search engines…
1. Bad titles. Titles are literally the first thing that search engine spiders see when they look at your website, and often your customers too. They
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seo: Is Creating Creative Content a Completely Contrived Curse of Crazy Conspirators? - 03/19/07 10:41 AM
At the risk of stepping on a couple of toes, I’m going to post a quote from a comment that was made recently in a real estate community website. I was in an argument about reciprocal linking, and the commenter with the opposing view had this to say:
“Let’s not go
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seo: Using Content from PLR Articles on your Blog or Site - 01/23/07 09:18 PM
Many of you know that I subscribe to Michael Campbell’s Internet Marketing Secrets newsletter. Yes, I know that the newsletter is full of affiliate ads, and sometimes reads like an advertisement… but there is some really good stuff in there.
Last year we posted an article on marketing on youtube that
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seo: New Search Engine: Quintura - Will we have to rethink SEO? - 12/08/06 04:22 PM
Just found a really cool new search engine that lets you visually search for a term: Quintura. The technical term is called "Latent Semantic Indexing". And there are actually many search engines incorporating this technology into their algorithms. You can navigate through the cloud of related terms and refine it by
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