search engines: SEO for Real Estate
- 07/16/06 04:29 AM
"SEO" (Search Engine Optimization) -- you could spend a lifetime trying to figure it out. And about the time you get it figured out, Google and whoever will up and change things. There's reciprocal links, back links, one-way links, natural links, link farms (a *really* bad idea). Flash vs. CSS vs PHP vs HTML. To JavaScript or not? Then there's new stuff like Ajax. There is keyword density and when and where to use <H1> - <H4> tags. If all this sounds like a foreign language, you are not alone. Unless you want to pay for traffic via PPC (Pay Per Click), (5 comments)
search engines: Google vs. Yahoo (and MSN and AOL...)
- 07/15/06 01:36 PM
I was responding to Roxanne & Shannon Moore's blog about Yahoo vs. Google and as I rambled on an on, it seemed like my comment would be better off being a seperate blog entry. I *greatly* prefer Google over Yahoo. Yahoo seems to put way too much weight on paid directory entries and sometimes returns really goofy results for searches. If you like the news and other stuff Yahoo puts on their portal page, you can *fully* customize the same thing with Google. (a surprising number of people are unaware of this feature). You'll need a Google account, but should probably have one (5 comments)