Special offer
Home > Blogs > Jim Crawford > Fredericksburg VA Real Estate Agent
bookmark_border

Is Your Site Google Road Kill? - Google Everflux

By
Real Estate Agent with Long & Foster 0225078705

For the past several months I noticed my main site jumping in position on Google!  It can really drive you nuts especially when your site has held a very high web position for years!  I've always been on the top of page 1 which is a great thing since over 85% of our business comes directly from the web.  Recently Page 1 of our site Atlanta Best Homes has disappeared from page one of a Google search!  No matter what it disappears, comes back and changes again!  I started asking others that are great on SEO and SEP, and they also started experience the same thing!   Well tonight a great friend of mine in Orlando Florida  real estate Risa Saltman e-mailed me a very good article that is a great explanation for the current turbulence!  There term is called "Google Everflux!"  Read the article and let me know your thoughts!  I know I found my answer!

Google Everflux: Just What We Needed, Google on Speed by Titus Hoskins

Posted by

James Crawford Broker Associate

Long & Foster Fredericksburg Virginia

678-595-5286 Direct

 

Fredericksburg VA Real Estate Agents, Spotsylvania County Homes for Sale, Spotsylvania County VA Homes, Stafford County VA Homes, and City of Fredericksburg VA – Luxury Homes, Lots, Land, and New Home Construction. Buying or Selling Call Me!  

 

Long and Foster Fredericksburg VA

Show All Comments
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA

Homefinders, Real Estate in MD & VA, Lenn Harley, Broker, New & Resale Homes  Lenn that is a good thing!  Thanks so much for critiquing my page, I took your advice cleaned up a lot of the clutter, and re-wrote the text.  I am back on page 1 and back at #2 for my preferred search of "Atlanta homes for sale!"

Apr 04, 2008 02:28 AM
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA
Tucson Real Estate Experts Anne amd Eddie McKechnie  I like being static.  Most of my pages stay on top of the search and never really change position.  The uncertainty of change is nerve wracking! 
Apr 04, 2008 02:30 AM
Debra Drummond
RE/MAX Gallery - Plymouth, MI
MichiganMoves Real Estate in SE Michigan

Thanks for sharing your redesign results. I've been thinking I need to do the same, and now I will

Apr 04, 2008 02:35 AM
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA

 Debra Drummond | MichiganMoves.com  There is no exact formula, but what Google does not like is too many outbound links from a page.  They also like relevant text to description and title.  They do not like you to about Atl image tags, or title tags!  They are not big into too much flash or java.

Apr 04, 2008 02:39 AM
Scott Cowan
RE/MAX Professionals - Olympia, WA
Thanks for sharing the article. It's a good read.... Google is hard to figure out and keep figured out. Yet, the effort it takes to provide quality content and links does lead to good page ranks and good leads. I think it is a good thing to keep up to date with.
Apr 04, 2008 06:35 AM
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA

Scott Cowan -Tacoma & Pierce County Area  I agree!  I have to keep up with it!  Like I said 85% of my business is Internet.

Apr 04, 2008 07:23 AM
Steve Scheer
Realty Oasis - Metro Brokers - Highlands Ranch, CO
Highlands Ranch Real Estate - Denver Real Estate
Jim - I haven't had time to read the linked article yet, but I am bookmarking for this weekend's reading.  I have experienced something similar as well.
Apr 04, 2008 10:40 AM
Kim Martinez
Advantage Homes - Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Barbara Real Estate Specialist
Hello Jim,  Thanks for posting and the link.  I really does explain a lot!
Apr 04, 2008 11:20 AM
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA
Denver Real Estate, Highlands Ranch Real Estate, Steve Scheer It is a good read! It explained enought for me to make some major changes and get back on page 1!
Apr 04, 2008 01:06 PM
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA
Kim Martinez   Kim I found it very helpful!
Apr 04, 2008 01:07 PM
Steve Scheer
Realty Oasis - Metro Brokers - Highlands Ranch, CO
Highlands Ranch Real Estate - Denver Real Estate
OK, I have read it, I agree that it makes sense to what I have seen as well.   Off to make some changes.
Apr 05, 2008 12:30 AM
Frank Rubi
Frank Rubi Real Estate, LLC - Metairie, LA
FrankRubiRealEstate.com
Jim, i have seen my placement jump around as well. There is so much to keep up with internet marketing. I hope to learn enough to stay up to date someday... Right now I feel like a dollar short and a day late. Have a great weekend.
Apr 05, 2008 12:55 AM
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA
Denver Real Estate, Highlands Ranch Real Estate, Steve Scheer  I found it was a tremendous help!
Apr 05, 2008 01:41 AM
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA

Frank Rubi Louisiana Real Estate-Homes for Sale I feel the same way!  What it really is a wake up call that it is "Back to basics!"  Title and meta tag relavancy, out going links need to stay within the norms, text relevant to tagging etc.

Apr 05, 2008 01:43 AM
Konnie Mac McCarthy
MacNificent Properties, LLC - Cobb Island, MD
Broker/Owner - VA & MD "Time To Get A Move On!"
I have had the same thing happen to my site.....very strange
Apr 05, 2008 03:12 PM
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA
Konnie McKee Northern Virginia Real Estate  It will be interesting to see how long my changes for Atlanta homes for sale  holds!
Apr 05, 2008 05:10 PM
Atlanta's Home Inspector, David Lelak IHI Home Inspections
IHI Home Inspections 404-788-2581 - Canton, GA
Experience the IHI Difference
Jim, thanks for the great information, there is so much that I need to learn about the internet advertising and it seems so little time.  I definately need to get my website up in postition.  But right now it is managed by someone else and content doesn't get added or updated often. I know it needs to change, and I'm working on it.  Thanks for all the great post that you have put out there for us to learn from.
Apr 07, 2008 04:10 PM
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA
Atlanta's Home Inspector David Lelak - IHI Home Inspections  Anytime!
Apr 07, 2008 04:54 PM
Steve Homer
The HBH Group (Keller Williams affiliate) - Round Rock, TX
This is why blogging has become such an important method of being found on the Internet.  I suspect that keeping your websites on page one is going to get more and more difficult and I do have to have time for other things in my business other than SEO, right? 
Apr 08, 2008 01:01 AM
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA

Steve Homer  Yes!  Blogging will be a stop gap measure to fill in the holes of of SEO placement.  I do not expect that Blogging will do this forever, but right now it works.  The search engines are all starved for cash, so placement at some point is going to turn into a crtical mass.  Everyone wants to be #1.

Apr 08, 2008 02:09 AM
Back to Top

What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry?

Are you sure you want to report this blog entry as spam?