long tail: Long Tail vs. Short Tail - More Examples From the "Long Tail Evangelist" - 04/17/09 01:18 PM
A couple weeks ago, I cited an example of how to use off-site linking strategies paired with long-tail phrases to get big (and near instant) movements of the dial in terms of better ranking on the search engines. The example I cited was a friend - Jim Duncan in Charlottesville -- whose blog post went from #7 to #1 solely because of a link to that post from my article. I then followed that post up with another post showing the results. I checked again this morning, and he's still #1 for that phrase, and I'm sure it will stay there … (8 comments)
long tail: The Results Are In -- Links from Active Rain ROCK! - 04/08/09 08:01 PM
Last week, I wrote a post entitled "Blogging Is Like a Reality TV Show". It had to do with the fact that you don't have to write EVERYTHING on your blog about real estate, but 10% to 20% of the time that you write about your city (or even better - neighborhoods in your city), there is a strategy you can use to rank higher on the search engines to get more traffic. BTW: It's usually well worth the extra 30 to 60 minutes of effort because by ranking in the top 3 for any given search phrase, you are 300% … (44 comments)
long tail: Your blog is like a Reality TV Show - 03/31/09 07:47 PM
First off, let me disclose that I am a "Traffic Guy" who had resisted blogging until last year. I resisted because I have always been able to get plenty of buyer and seller traffic, and thought that blogging wasn't worth the time investment required. In fact, I grew my Boulder real estate company to nearly 60 agents, and I generated the majority of their sales because of the traffic I was able to generate. I figured: "With that kind of traffic - who needs to spend time blogging?" (And to be honest, I envisioned the thought of myself being "a blogger" … (86 comments)
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A couple weeks ago, I cited an example of how to use off-site linking strategies paired with long-tail phrases to get big (and near instant) movements of the dial in terms of better ranking on the search engines. The example I cited was a friend - Jim Duncan in Charlottesville -- whose blog post went from #7 to #1 solely because of a link to that post from my article. I then followed that post up with another post showing the results. I checked again this morning, and he's still #1 for that phrase, and I'm sure it will stay there … (8 comments)
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