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How Do You Feed Google? Update Your Site To Keep Your Rank

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Frank & Jodi Orlando Get Us A Home Realty Atlanta Homes Sale

 Atlanta Homes Sale

     We all know google is the king in the real estate search engine game. The first trick is to get to the top, the second is to STAY there. I am not tooting our horn, but, we are there and we'll stay there. Obviously continued blogging with activerain will also help keep you in your rank, but, what other steps do you do? It seems google indexes our sites about every 4-6 weeks, we want google to be happy so we feed it a little more every time.

     Now this is a bit of work as there are 48 websites (not a miss print, we are in 5 metropolitan areas) and as we add sites this is one of the things google will notice when it indexes. Secondary pages are added about every month for most of the primary sites. As an example is a newer site http://atlantahomesrealestatesale.com I am working on some of the secondary pages such as http://atlantahomesrealestatesale.com/cumming_forsyth_county_gainesville_suwanee_duluth.htm the secondary pages are built by city, county, and community. http://atlantahomesrealestatesale.com/polo_golf_country_club_cumming_forsyth_county.htm

     With the many foreclosures now on the market it is reasonable to develop a secondary foreclosure page. This is a secondary page from www.atlantacountryclubhomessale.com http://atlantacountryclubhomessale.com/foreclosure_bank_owned_reo_short.htm the html tags are changed for the different parameters, title tags and description are crucial in these pages. The last thing you want to do is have duplicate pages that are redundant. The length of the title and description? This has always been argued, we like to keep them short and to the point. Make sure all the words are somewhere on the web page.

     Lastly do not forget about schools, many folks will choose that as a search criteria, have links to the schools on your site http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/nfhs/site/default.asp. We also put school search links by price range for high schools, google seems to like that also. Community info links are also help full and build relevance for your website and that is another search term a relocating family will use. Good Luck!

 

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Bill Gillhespy
16 Sunview Blvd - Fort Myers Beach, FL
Fort Myers Beach Realtor, Fort Myers Beach Agent - Homes & Condos

Morning Frank,  48 sites !?!?  How much time do you devote to taking care of all those sites ?

Feb 08, 2009 12:24 AM
Frank & Jodi Orlando
Frank & Jodi Orlando Get Us A Home Realty Atlanta Homes Sale - Cumming, GA

 Hi Bill, Couple hours a day. Always adding more content...

Feb 08, 2009 12:28 AM
Jane Heiss-Armitage
Ayre/Rhinehart Realtors (Midland County, Bay County,Saginaw County, Mi.) - Midland, MI
Selling Homes in the Great Lakes Bay Region

Hi Bill Wow I'm impressed,  you must be a computer guru !   I have a hard enough time remembering to update mine.   You must think about it while you are sleeping making a plan for the couple hours the next day.  

Feb 08, 2009 12:30 AM
Kevin Cavanaugh
Keller Williams Hudson Valley Realty - Tappan, NY
Lic. Associate Broker, ABR, GREEN

Frank,  I have seen my rank rise as a result of Activerain and not quite sure how to stay there beside blogging.  I just picked up SEO for Dummies from the library.  Good luck.  kevincavanaughonline.com

Feb 08, 2009 12:34 AM
Frank & Jodi Orlando
Frank & Jodi Orlando Get Us A Home Realty Atlanta Homes Sale - Cumming, GA

Jane, LOL, it is actually pretty easy, I just go down the list one at a time. Only need one idea X 48.

Feb 08, 2009 12:35 AM
Frank & Jodi Orlando
Frank & Jodi Orlando Get Us A Home Realty Atlanta Homes Sale - Cumming, GA

Kevin, I started off with the dummies books, they really can explain in easy terminology. Good luck to you!

Feb 08, 2009 12:40 AM
Eileen Hsu
Douglas Elliman Real Estate - Manhattan, NY
LICENSED REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON

Thank you for your great advice, keeping on the top rank pages of google is a must for Real Estate agents in todays market.

Feb 08, 2009 12:40 AM
Gabe Sanders
Real Estate of Florida specializing in Martin County Residential Homes, Condos and Land Sales - Stuart, FL
Stuart Florida Real Estate

And, don't forget to blog on Active Rain with lots of links back to your site - that is helping as well!

Feb 08, 2009 12:50 AM
Frank & Jodi Orlando
Frank & Jodi Orlando Get Us A Home Realty Atlanta Homes Sale - Cumming, GA

Gabe, Yep, I try not to go overboard with it. I think there are 5 links in this blog...

Feb 08, 2009 12:54 AM
Frank & Jodi Orlando
Frank & Jodi Orlando Get Us A Home Realty Atlanta Homes Sale - Cumming, GA

Eileen, Yes, it is a never ending quest, you actually can fall off pretty quick if you do not keep up...

Feb 08, 2009 12:55 AM