Real estate blog entries tagged with linking

Blog entries tagged with "linking":

linking: Building Referrals - Driving traffic to your home page. A question? - 08/18/08 10:07 PM

Help me
Today I am asking you for your thoughts and opinions. Over the weekend I listened to speakers talk about building traffic and awareness of your website through blogging. I was already aware the blogging can help you with your google ranking. They also talked of a concept that I … (5 comments)

linking: Is the Web raising your own boat? - 08/18/08 11:31 AM

Using the WWW effectively as a marketing tool for a real estate agency business has now been proven to be quite beneficial, if you talk to agents who have done it. The profile of a "top performer" in this business is changing dramatically in terms of how they are getting there. Many … (6 comments)

linking: Do Web-savvy agents jump ship? - 08/08/08 11:39 AM

Can anyone confirm that more and more Web-savvy agents are jumping ship to brokers that offer them the kind of deal that they want? That is, smaller splits, no desk fees or other office fees, work-from-home freedom, etc. I have seen it happen, and I am hearing that it is becoming … (10 comments)

linking: Passing on some "Link Love" and "Embedded Coding " to Newbies and others like me who need the help! - 08/07/08 09:35 PM

I had been struggling here on Active Rain trying to figure out how to add a video from YouTube to one of my blogs, and for the life of me, I just could not figure it out.
After reading a blog by Emily Lowe - Nashville, TN, Realtor, titled"Lovely Home for sale in Eaton's Creek … (20 comments)

linking: Bloggers Connect at Inman - 07/29/08 01:00 PM

I couldn't attend everything at Inman. So much rich content going on simultaneously and only 1 of me to go around. I did attend the entire day at the "Bloggers Connect". I hope you reading my post, can get some sense of how great this experience truly was.
Wednesday morning kicked … (9 comments)

linking: Email Listing Links to Clients & Use in Presentations - 07/27/08 03:15 PM

Seller clients seem to love seeing their home on website pages, so I email to them the links to all the website pages where their home is listed. (that I know of! Seems new ones are linking in all of the time)
My listings appear on over 20 web sites, (not including idx sites … (6 comments)

linking: "Great content" automatically gets links - NOT! - 07/21/08 09:16 AM

In a lot of SEO forums, especially the real estate forums like this one, and others, you will find a contingent of people that insist that "great content" alone will result in huge numbers of links to your website. Well, OK. Sure. I have seen it happen. I can point to … (14 comments)

linking: Why is SEO considered so mystical? - 07/09/08 09:28 AM

With my years of experience in the business of link building and SEO, I continue to be frustrated that so many agents consider search optimization to be a hard-to-understand, confusing, technical issue.
I blame many of the so-called "SEO celebrities", many of whom deliberately try to make it such. They devise all manner … (9 comments)

linking: Good Landing Pages Are the Key to SEO Success - 06/27/08 09:16 AM

95% of the "on site" SEO work for a real estate agent site should revolve around the creation of properly formatted "landing pages". Poor landing page construction, combined with a lack of links, is the single biggest handicap that agents put upon themselves, when it comes to good search results.
A … (0 comments)

linking: Does Your SEO Work Get You a Seat at the Closing Table? - 06/25/08 10:01 AM

Hi all...
There seems to be a massive amount of denial among some agents that search engine optimization (SEO) efforts actually lead to CLOSINGS and income.
I think that a lot of agents consider SEO to be smoke and mirrors, and are unwilling to address it with an investment of time … (3 comments)

linking: The main difference between sites with good rankings and those without - 06/13/08 10:12 AM

There is only one real difference that matters: The attitude and approach of the site owner toward search engine optimization.I have done dozens and dozens of free website ranking analysis on agent sites. Their lack of rankings almost always comes down to the decisions that the agents have made up to that point.The only … (23 comments)

linking: SEO landing pages for your site - an easy and FREE to use tool! - 06/11/08 08:23 AM

A "landing page" is a Web page that is built to attract specific search traffic, usually for a specific search term (or terms). Having well-formatted, keyword-rich "landing pages" is vital to good, consistent SEO results. You have to "tell" a search engine exactly what you are about, using specific page formatting. … (12 comments)

linking: Do you know your "cost per link" and SEO ROI? - 06/04/08 10:31 AM

One of my pet peeves with some SEO theorists is that there is never a return-on-investment aspect to it. They operate as if SEO is blissfully independent of a metric that applies to every other business service. That is bunk!SEO work takes time and/or money. There are several ways to get … (0 comments)

linking: To Link Or Not To Link...That Is The Question...??? - 06/04/08 09:23 AM

After almost a year of Active Rain membership and almost that much blogging activity I'm proud of what I have learned in that relatively short period of time...
Now I'm talking about someone who barely had email communication figured out, who used the internet only for shopping, and never even … (38 comments)

linking: "Do Follow" Comment Test - 05/21/08 12:21 PM

I changed the coding in my WordPress blog so that comments get picked up by Google and Yahoo so that the authors of the comment get a link from my site to their site. Basically a free and easy way to build one way links (not reciprocal) for those of you … (1 comments)

linking: Free One Way Links to Your Web Site! - 05/19/08 01:42 PM

SeoDiva, Kay Frenzer, wrote an AR post stating the value of making comments on blogs that "do follow". "Do follow" sites actually give "link juice" to the person leaving the comment on the blog post. You see, most blogs today have "no follow" coding in the blog that prevents Google and … (5 comments)

linking: Results of the test are in - 05/18/08 05:46 PM

This won't be a surprise or news for many of you but some may be interested. I just ran a test wherein a wrote an AR post and linked it to a relatively new and unpopular page on my www.WeKnowUrban.com site. I was curious to see how long it would take … (2 comments)

linking: Simple Way to Promote Your Blog and Lure in Others - 05/01/08 10:58 AM

Throughout this little mini-series on the Blog portion of my Realtor Web Marketing installments (can be found on my personal blog), you have learned not only how to set up your blog, but also the things you can (and should) do to help get your sites noticed by both the search … (3 comments)

linking: How To Find Out Who’s Linking To Your Site - 04/21/08 09:27 PM

By now you know that what makes the World Wide Web (www) such a useful medium is its ability to link together documents, pages, and entire sites. Virtually every page contains these hyperlinks, and savvy marketers have discovered that the more sites that have links to yours, the more web surfers … (4 comments)

linking: 6 Quick and Simple Ways to Dominate Google Rankings! - 04/15/08 01:48 PM

6 Quick and Simple Ways to Dominate Google Rankings!
The reason Google is the most successful search engine in the world is because they provide the best search results; pages ranked by tangible value. That tangible value is a combination of content and links, with links being the more important factor … (24 comments)

linking: Other Methods to Get Traffic to Your Website - 04/13/08 09:37 AM

Matt Bacak is the best trainer and internet marketer I meet and seen on the internet. His model works great for real estate professional. This is one of the hundreds of article written by Matt. Hope you enjoy it. I have put link at bottom of this article so you … (3 comments)

linking: Build It Website Internet Success Components ... - 04/09/08 12:34 PM

...Keywords, Linking, SEO, Relevance, Theme, Market Niche, Content, Hosting..... design is a very small part in the midst of what really gets significant traffic.
Returning to my work in interiors last year, I decided to Build My Own Site.
I'd barely used the internet before, but had the time between careers. Wanting to see … (8 comments)

linking: 17 Quick Tips for Generating Links to Your Site - 03/28/08 05:27 PM

10 Quick Tips for Generating Links to Your Site Here are a few tips for generating quality inbound links to your site. Some involve creating new content, and others simply leverage your existing content.
Remember, the golden rule of SEO is that high-quality content will inherently rank more highly … (96 comments)

linking: Rookie Blogger Here...How do I Link? - 02/19/08 05:31 AM

Rookie Blogger Here....I've been reading several very educational blogs here and I've seen several mentions of linking. Should I provide a link on my website to my blog page (and how?), or what exactly is meant my that? I want to take full advantage of my website, blogging, etc.
Thank You in … (21 comments)

linking: Types of Links for SEO - Link Terminology - 12/16/07 10:20 PM

The more links you have coming into your website, the higher your search engine rankings will be, it's that simple. Google sees it this way, if a site is linking to yours, then it must think your site is valuable, therefore you must be valuable. The higher the quality of the … (20 comments)

linking: Active Rain uses a lot of Juice - 12/01/07 08:08 AM

While I put together the piece on 'Positioning' associated not only with Pinehurst, NC real estate but real estate for sale everywhere, I noticed something unsettling with my renewed efforts on Active Rain.
While checking my SERP for the Pinehurst real estate sites this morning something very scary happened - all the … (5 comments)

linking: SEO Basics - Two Types of Search Engine Optimization - 11/12/07 11:27 AM

There are two types of search engine optimization: 1. On-Site Optimization
2. Off-Site Optimization
ON-SITE OPTIMIZATION
On Site Optimization refers to how a website is built. A website must be built in a certain way if it is to be easily indexed by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Some of the factors … (3 comments)

linking: 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 … (8 comments)

linking: AR Tutorials - How To Add Links To Your Blog Posts - 10/18/07 09:47 PM

And How To Anchor Links ProperlyThe request for a video tutorial on how to add links to your blog posts came from several people, both in public and in private.
Once again, for many of you this may seem pedantic. But if people are asking, that means they don't know. And … (54 comments)

linking: Aren't We All In This Together? - 10/08/07 01:55 AM

I was just hopping around the Real Estate Tomato (why is it a tomato? Can anyone help me out here?) and I came across an article entitled The Secret To Successful Comments. I stopped to read the suggestions made by our beloved Tomato writers, and froze with interest when I reached … (5 comments)

linking: Adding the BlogRush Traffic Builder to your ActiveRain blog: Step-by-Step - 09/20/07 07:21 PM

A few people having problems getting BlogRush onto their blogs have asked me for some help... If you need it too, here it is:
To add BlogRush to your ActiveRain blog, here are the steps:
Open a browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, whichever) and go to the BlogRush site (http://www.blogrush.com/r92794589).Open another browser and … (8 comments)

linking: More traffic than your blog can handle? And it's free? - 09/20/07 04:43 PM

I just posted this to a forum on blogging and thought the 'greater blog community' might benefit from it also.
That's one of the postings I read about BlogRush. I've decided to give it a shot. The price is right (it's free).
BlogRush is a 'widget' that you place on your blog. … (1 comments)

linking: Make Your Presence Known at FaceBook - 08/04/07 08:29 PM

If you haven't created a profile out on FaceBook, go do it now. It is free, which is always great. FaceBook is like MySpace or Squidoo, you create a page out there, place links back to your website, you can feed you blog into it. Basically it is good for several … (9 comments)

linking: Types of Links - 07/31/07 10:22 PM

Links are "the currency of the web." Without them, your website is a stand-alone entity. Think about it... how do people get around on the Internet? LINKS!!! They are the highways, roads, streets and avenues leading to your website's door. You need plenty of them, and you need them in a variety … (6 comments)

linking: Get your Widgets here, Voices Button, Free Map with YOUR listings for your site + More - 07/24/07 08:33 AM

hey all! For those of you that use the Voices platform on Trulia, I just wanted to be sure that you know we now have a button to include on your site and profiles! The page with the code is here:
http://www.trulia.com/tools/buttons/profile/

Don't forget that you can also get … (5 comments)

linking: Link Friendly Site - 07/20/07 10:22 PM

Lately, there has been a number of instances whereby a potential link exchange partner asks for an exchange. I check the person's site to make sure it is relevant, trustworthy, etc., only to find a mess. Here is a great article about what makes a site link friendly. Posted two days … (0 comments)

linking: 4 Sources of Links - 07/20/07 10:17 PM

I found this article on linking. As linking is probably half our work in ranking our sites, this article breaks down linking into four types: your internal navigational links, the links you give yourself from other sites, the links you ask other sites to give you, and lastly, the links other … (1 comments)

linking: Active Rain Banned By Google : Link spam ruins great resource - 07/19/07 01:04 AM

Active Rain Banned By Google : Link spam ruins great resource I would imagine that got everyones attention - It's not true, but it could happen and unless some changes are made, it may very well become a reality. This will be a very long post, but if you would like … (50 comments)

linking: Matt Cutts of Google Penalizing Real Estate Websites - Part 1 - 06/22/07 06:11 AM

Executive summary of this post:
Google gives more weight to websites that have good inbound links However, Google does not like link schemes designed to increase a site's ranking - reciprocal linking with hundreds of Realtors across the country Matt Cutts heads up the Google web spam team and enforces the Google webmaster … (53 comments)

linking: Thank You Active Rain! My SEO Journey Update. - 06/01/07 09:47 AM

Thank you to the folks who have put AR together and work to keep it going. Thank you to all of you who have written about and taught me about SEO. Special thank yous go out to Karen George, Lenn Harly here on AR and to a host of other folks … (4 comments)

linking: Why is it taking so long to figure this blogging stuff out? - 05/25/07 11:03 PM

Thank goodness for Active Rain or it would be taking me longer!
I just realized that I am underutilizing my links at the side of my blog page. I should have been linking deeper into my website with area information. I noticed on someone else's blog (Lisa Hammerstein) that she had lots of … (11 comments)

linking: How's The SEO Coming? - 05/20/07 10:48 AM

I actually got an email the other day that asked me how my SEO was coming on my website, valuelistre.com. I was surprised that anybody was really following my little internet saga. I wrote the guy back and he told me that he was thinking about doing something similar to what … (2 comments)

linking: Another Call Out For Folks Interested In Exchanging Links - 05/12/07 12:12 PM

If you've been following Karen Georges Great Link Experiment you'll know that of the 21 participants in her experiment that 12 have recognized some significant improvements in their search engine rankings. Some of them have some basic flaws on their pages that need to be corrected and there are a few … (3 comments)

linking: Who do you trust with your website design??? - 05/06/07 09:37 PM

Who do you trust with your internet business?
Having a work at home business, or your successful business that you have had for 20 years going to the next level with a website, who do you trust? As you decide that you want to venture into a website for your business, making … (5 comments)

linking: Why blogs are a powerhouse for your business.... - 05/01/07 10:10 AM

Blogs are the newest and best thing when it comes to helping you grow and get traffic for your site on the net. How does this work exactly? What is the process? What the most important item that you need for your real estate blog to work with your business is the following:1) … (3 comments)

linking: Search Marketing in 2007 Part 2: Proper Link Building Techniques - 04/19/07 10:21 AM

In the first part of my series of discussions about the Search Engine Strategies Conference in NYC I went over some new PPC features in Google AdWords. To read that post please visit my Search Marketing in 2007: Part 1 Post. Part 2 will have an SEO focus and in this … (4 comments)

linking: Top Agent SEO - The truth about Linking and SEO - 03/28/07 06:22 PM

There is much debate about linking, specifically reciprocal linking. Occasionally advice is offered regarding this topic by seo professionals, and those just familiar with seo - sometimes bad advice. I am going to help demystify this area of seo.
For starters, "linking" establishes what's known as PageRank for websites, which was created by Google. PageRank is … (11 comments)

linking: Diverse Linking introduction - 03/23/07 04:51 AM

I originally posted this at REW Blogs but I thought I would share it with the AR crowd as well as it got a lot of comments, hopefully those doing your own SEO will find it useful.
For those real estate webmasters that are trying to improve their natural search engine rankings, … (37 comments)

linking: Checking your Links with Google; A Great way to End Your Day - 03/22/07 01:05 AM

I have just learned that Google provides a free service that allows web site owners to check incoming links to their sites. It can be found by going to Googles "Webmaster Tools" page, signing up and submitting your site.
With this service you can view your pages, check outgoing links in … (1 comments)

linking: Real Estate Webmaster's Forum - 03/15/07 03:03 PM

For anyone who is working on promoting their own real esate web site, check out the Real Estate Webmasters Forum. It is pretty active web forum of tech-minded agents, web developers and SEO'ers that cater to real estate web site. There are several discussions on Google, Yahoo, SEO, linking campaigns and … (3 comments)

linking: Etiquitte and acceptable conduct? - 03/12/07 02:24 AM

Having been at this for several weeks, I seem to be finding my way around. The questions I have for the group may relate to personal preference, or maybe to what is considered the norm....here it is.
Is it acceptable to place links (to a personal site) in a post? I have read … (17 comments)

linking: Early morning chuckle.. some late night posts.. - 01/30/07 10:16 AM

Brian Brady - You crack me up!
Ok, This morning I was going through my stack of mail (not email, regular snail mail) and here is what I got: Advertisment for a used car; Godiva chocolate magazine (Makes for a great closing gift), Bills, bills and another bill. I also got a … (4 comments)

linking: Why reciprocal linking? - 12/27/06 07:57 PM

Many believe it's about increasing search engine ranking... Although other benefits include:
Adding value to your website by providing exit links to like minded sites that you feel would be useful to your end usersReceive quality traffic from other like minded sites that link with your site.Adding valuable resources to your site … (2 comments)

linking: R.I.P. - Reciprocal Linking - Deceased 1999-2006 - 11/30/06 01:24 PM

Is anyone as sick as I am of receiving reciprocal linking requests in the form of spam emails? I read a fantastic article by Mike Banks Valentine of SearchEngineOptimism.com. Yes the article is a bit controversial, but that's what makes it a fun read! The title is: "Reciprocal Linking is … (8 comments)

linking: Blogging and Links - 11/29/06 10:56 PM

I just blogged about Real Estate Agents & Blogging on my new blog and thought I'd share it here.
Also I've touched on linking a couple times here in my blogs, but now that I started my own blog I thought I blog about linking over there and sum up my … (0 comments)

linking: Blogging For Bucks - 11/13/06 03:37 PM

I’ve discovered gold in them thar blogs! I'm no technological geek but I love using today's technology in my real estate business. On April 6th of 2005, I discovered blogging and my life hasn't been the same since. I quickly became addicted.
Seriously blogging now since May of 2005, I started … (42 comments)

linking: Links follow up - 11/09/06 11:08 PM

It's been brought to my attention that I missed some key points in my Linking blog . So I thought I'd do a follow up post on linking with images and how to do so.
When linking with an image you should always use the alt tag. The alt tag is like a … (12 comments)

linking: Hittail.com: a Revolution in SEO - 10/16/06 07:17 PM

I found a great site recently... forgive me if you already knew of it's existence. I was absolutely thrilled when I found it. There are many services out there that can assist you with finding niche keywords. The purpose in finding niche keywords is to weed out the competition from the … (12 comments)

linking: What is Page Rank, and Will it Effect My Website Ranking? - 09/25/06 11:40 AM

Through some of my other SEO posts, I've had quite a few questions about Google's page Rank (PR). What is it? How does it work? Why don't I have any? Does it affect my site's ranking?, etc.What is it?: In short, PR is a system that Google uses to weigh the … (8 comments)

linking: Healthy Website Linking Practices - 09/13/06 09:07 AM

Everyone that has an active website tends to get spam from other webmasters that want to trade links with you. This is especially prolific in the real estate industry as there are a plethora of individual real estate websites. Here is one email I just received recently: Hi there,My name is … (6 comments)

linking: Creating Hot Links - 08/22/06 10:46 PM

Recently someone asked in a comment section "how do you make a link to a site?"
I'm assuming they were talking about linking on a blog post. It's quite easy, look above at the "chain" in the tool bar where you enter your blog. This is the icon you will be clicking … (5 comments)

linking: Link Exchange - Great for Search Engines but that isn't why we should do it. - 07/15/06 07:54 AM

Every client you ever come across will have specific needs. Not one person is 100% satisfied with a potential new home just the way it is. They will always envision changing something about the home or the grounds.
Linking to websites in the categories found on my Denver real estate agents blog … (2 comments)

linking: CONTENT VS LINKING – MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT - 07/14/06 10:45 PM

CONTENT VS LINKING – MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT Linking is a game and it is designed solely for the purpose of manipulating search results. The search engines are very sophisticated, and are constantly trying to improve their search results. The main way to do this is to THWART people who play games and … (2 comments)

linking: Who Do You Link With................. - 07/14/06 10:20 PM

More Link Partner Categories
Here are some more business categories that could become part of your "Local Resources" page. Find ones that have local or regional headquarters, rather than the big national chains.
Landscape services Local hardware stores and building supply companies Roofing and fencing contractors Vacation property specialists (if … (1 comments)

linking: Who Do You Link With................. - 07/14/06 10:20 PM

linking: What About Linking??? - 07/14/06 05:53 PM

"Is Linking Dead? Not sooooo fast!Identify Good PossibilitiesWith all of the controversy currently surrounding Realtor to Realtorlinking, everyone is scrambling to other types of businesses that may beviable link partners.To find some potential link partners, go tohttp://local.yahoo.com. Enter a category (such as "Consulting") and enterDenver (or your city). Once the list … (1 comments)