seo: 7 SEO Secrets to Dominate your Local Market - 01/29/09 03:41 PM
All of these suggestions are free to implement and will generate very high quality incoming links and a pretty healthy amount of traffic.
You can use your ActiveRain profile just fine with each of these items but you will likely generate the best results with your own Individual Blog. (If you don't have an Individual Blog yet click here to get one.)
Please note that pretty much all of the items below require that you have a free account with the applicable website.
1. Submit yourself to Google Local. Make sure to put in your blog or profile URL in the … (90 comments)

seo: "rel=no follow” tag - 04/17/08 06:45 AM
We have had a few concerned inquiries from our members about a statement made in an RISMedia article authored by Isreal Rothman, CEO of Social Media Systems, titled "Utilizing Free Content Distribution for Advertising Purposes".
The article states that "Thousands of Realtors are blogging on ActiveRain - not knowing that the links they build there are not valid links and will not help placement: the “rel=no follow” tag is automatically inserted, creating placement to some extent for ActiveRain, but not for the Realtors’ individual websites.
This statement is incorrect; We do not place No Follow tags in the body of our member's … (24 comments)

seo: Major SEO news! Google may be changing algorithm in favor of timely content and blogs. - 01/01/08 06:07 PM
The SEO experts are still figuring out what exactly is happening and what the implications are, but it appears that Google is adjusting it's algorithm in favor of fresh content at the expense of longer tenured static pages with large amount of incoming links.
Hopefully this change will be beneficial to the AR community.
Here are some links for a more detailed analysis of the situation:
Google Operating System
Mashable
Techcrunch
WebMetricsGuru
 
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seo: SEO strategy tip: Static site architecture - 12/28/07 05:07 AM
Joel Burslem from the Future of Real Estate Marketing blog has a great post today about using static search results for long tail seo success.  This is a strategy that Brio Realty pioneered 5+ years ago, Trulia successfully uses now (notice the url address), and it looks like Zillow will start to use in the coming year. 
(It is also interesting to consider that much of the AR seo strategy was built around this long tail, every page indexable concept.) 
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