Hmmm.... thank you for this.  I'm not quite sure what to make of mine, now that I've looked at it!  I will have to research a bit.

Thank you so much for the tip!

Sandi - you have a lot of backlinks, but look at the first words in your title. The first words have GOT to be your most important keywords.

Sheri - I hope it helps you. 

Kay,

I did what you said. Had rouble trying to find "Settings". Did not find it. Have the rankpage thing showing on the bar, but did not figure the rest yet,

Could you tell me where exactly to go to "settings", please?

Thank you

Kay - I couldn't live without my Google tool bar! This is excellent SEO advice. 

I have to tell you though that big spider made it really, really hard to read the blog!!

Arachnophobically Yours,

Danielle 

Jon, if you've got the pagerank bar showing, you're good to go. The settings button is on the far right side of the toolbar itself.

Danielle, you gave me a good laugh! Sorry about the spider lol! 

Thanks Kay, I have had the Google Tool Bar for some time. I didnt know about the drop down for Cache tip.

Kay-

Thank you so much for looking at my site.  I hate to be SO blond, but I can't find my title!!  When I click on the cached text, the first words that come up are the tabs in my header.  After that, the page seems to just follow my sidebar on down...   ???  Where exactly do you see the title?

If you have a second, great.  If you don't, don't feel like you have to answer!  :)

Sandi, blondes have to stick together - of course I'll answer your question!  A lot of people don't know where the title is. Look at the very top of your browser window, next to the browser logo: the little world for IE and the blue /orange world for Firefox.

In your source code it looks like this: <title>ChicoHomeSearch.net - Chico CA Real Estate Blog &amp; Chico Homes MLS Listings Search</title>

LOL!  Thanks, Kay  :)

So if it's the FIRST words that are most important, maybe the thing to do is eliminate ChicoHomesearch.net, and have it read:  Chico CA Real Estate Blog and MLS Listings Search??

Sandi, yes you should eliminate the URL. Also, why not change the last part to MLS Homes for Sale - more keywords.

Kay - The Google Foolbar is an interesting tool, but Goolge's webmaster tools is so much more powerful. 

Good tips, I have all kinds of crap installed on my browser to help me with SO and web design.  I'll take it a step further and say if you're really serious about SEO you should use FireFox instead of Internet Explorer and experiment with all the different add-ons they have available, including the google toolbar.

Ryan - very true.

Robert - I agree - I use Firefox and the SEO tools they offer are great. 

Thanks for the input.  I had the Google toolbar but had no idea I could see the page rank.  Boy do I have my work cutout for me.  I transferred my license to RE/MAX in Spring Hill, TN in November 2007 and am still trying to update my office & website.  Any suggestions for boosting my page rank?

Laura, those ReMax subdomain sites are so hard to rank in my experience! In addition, you need to do some beginner SEO work. If you read through my blogs from the beginning, especially at the beginning I tried to make them like tutorials, and they'll help you.

You need to fix your title tag, write your own meta description to replace the canned one, write original home page content with links to added pages for which you've written original content.

As far as I can tell at a quick look, Google hasn't even spidered your site. Write articles in your AR blog linking to your site with keyword phrases (after you do keyword research.) That should help lead the spider to your site.

Good luck!