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yahoo myths
I'm amazed at the high ranking Active Rain posts receive when doing a search for web sites through a search engine. 
...Keywords, Linking, SEO, Relevance, Theme, Market Niche, Content, Hosting..... design is a very small part in the midst of what really gets significant traffic.
Using Firefox to help boost your web site activity is unbelievable. You can look at all websites using a Firefox plug in download. Use fire fox and plug in free SEO Tools. http://tools.seobook.com/ This tool is designed for Firefox. Here is a keyword toll that will help with basically suggesting words … (2 comments)
For the last two weeks my yahoo ranking and my link popularity was steadily increasing. Today all of a sudden I lost my Yahoo ranking and many of my links to both yahoo and google have gone away. I don't get it.. I do lots and lots of blogs. I … (6 comments)
Sally is a mortgage expert and Harry is a builder. Together they will improve their web site traffic and client base by sharing links with each other. Marge offers real estate training and Vern is a landscaper. 
How's this for a nice trick. 
I found another gadget today. It's pretty neat, actually. It allows you to type in certain keywords and see not only who's on top in the rankings, but how they got there. It also offers pages of ways to get your site on top. It'll even offer suggestions on websites to … (10 comments)
Our website recently took a plunge in its ranking on Google. We've been working to correct the problem and came across a great resource at www.seodiagnostic.com. It's a free diagnostic tool for SEO.The site is easy to use, you just enter the website you are trying to optimize and the site … (22 comments)
In a recent report of Sperlings Best Places, which ranked the "Most Secure" large metropolitan areas in the US, our lovely city of Honolulu was ranked right up there. 
Between our recent ranking as the #1 City to Live & Make Movies by MovieMaker Magazine and the upcoming ground-breaking of Villa Muse, a studio-focused development, Austin is moving into the big leagues in the entertainment industry. While we've always had a plethora of creative talent, Austin has taken the back … (2 comments)
According to Moody's Economy.com, Austin ranks high in the lists of the best cities in the country for jobs in 2008. Moody's uses five data points to create these rankings (they are weighted equally): the state's unemployment rate, job growth, income growth, median household income and cost of living for the … (0 comments)
If it has, you probably pay to advertise on at least a few web sites. According to a recent interview with Google's spokesman Matt Cutts, Google has dramatically decreased the value of "paid-for links". Gone are the days when you could just throw tons of cash at your web site and … (4 comments)
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.
The search engines appear to be using link popularity as one of the criteria to determine the page ranking of a website. The more backlinks pointing to a page on your website, the more important that page appears to be in the eyes of the search engines. How does one create link popularity in the eyes … (0 comments)
6 of the top 27 agents in units sold in the Wichita MLS were RE/MAX agents. That's 22% and yet RE/MAX only has 6% of the total agents.
Unless you live under a rock, you've heard all of the bad news recently about the real estate 'bubble' and the mortgage market crisis from our friends in the national media. But, as they say, all real estate is local. Compared to 2005, there's no question that sales are down along … (0 comments)
A friend of mine that I used to work with called me to ask my opinion of a company that called him and guaranteed him certain things when it comes to placement on the internet. I am glad he called as there are many agents that don't quite know the internet … (1 comments)
I've had the same website provider for some time. At first it was a decent relationship but as I became more SEO or Internet savvy I started asking questions they couldn't answer.
Craig LePage, Broker, Realtor (704) 618-2412 / Lake Norman, NC Craig LePage, Broker, Realtor 704-618-2412 … (0 comments)
I just started a company and made a huge mistake of hiring my friend to design my website from a template I bought on-line. Then I made mistake #2 of hiring a web placement company to "place" my website on higher ranking pages. 
I have been online for a few months. I have been working hard on my SEO and have made some progress. My name (Brad Snyder) happens to be the same as a Cleveland Indians ballplayer and it has made moving up in Google a little tough. I had to pay $1500.00 for … (11 comments)
...According to Money Magazine and today, written about in The Morning Call (local newspaper).This ranking was from a list of 'small' towns with populations of between 7,500 and 50,000 and included education, housing prices, safety (crime), and job opportunities as part of the list of criteria measured.(Note , at the top … (12 comments)
Medford Oregon ranks 34th Best City
I think I have a handle on understanding what to do about plagiarism now. I am working that out. I now have another question about how spiders/search engines rank content on websites that have been changed/updated. Bear with me so I can be clear . . . . 
I just posted a comment on Jeff Janus' blog that I thought the rest of you might find useful. It's about getting ranked with the search engines and driving traffic to your site. So, rather than rewrite it here, I thought I'd get him some more help by just linking to his … (4 comments)
A new Forbes magazine report ranks Davenport, Iowa 25th in the nation for its low cost of doing business. The report - "Best Places For Business and Careers - also ranks Davenport 90th overall among 200 large metro areas. Forbes bases those rankings on economic research firm Economy.com, owned by Moody's. Its … (2 comments)
How do search engines work? I've had my website for years, but when I type real estate agent in my city, my website isn't even in the first 17 pages (I gave up trying to find it). However, I've been on active rain for two days and now I'm number 11 … (7 comments)
How do you get blog comment points and other points? I see some people with a bunch of other points. How do they do that. … (7 comments)
The California Department of Education (CDE) has released the updated 2006 Academic Performance Index (API) scores for California schools, including data for San Mateo County and Santa Clara County. The API is a statewide benchmark based on standardized achievement tests which is primarily used to rank schools relative to one another … (0 comments)
I wrote a post on my 15 day anniversary called How To Add 5,000 Points in 15 Days...a lot of you read it ...click the link if you'd like too.So here's Round 2 I got a lot of good feedback. Readers liked the inspiration and the step by step tips. But … (96 comments)
Is there content on your site that appears on several other sites? 
I just wanted to share with you some things I learned on my way to Page 1 on Google.
I'm already #4 in Calabasas with 548 points! And I only need to get a little over 1000 to be #1! That means that either I'll have to start writing longer blog posts, or you guys will have to start commenting more! LOL! … (20 comments)
She may....but I doubt it!...My site that is: http://www.streetroadrealty.com/
"Some suggest "Googling" prospective hires for some insight on their marketing efforts. Why? A real estate professional must market both himself or herself and the properties they sell. If the Google search turns up very little on an agent, there's a problem. Either the agent does not self-promote or does not … (7 comments)