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You’ve no doubt heard that backlinks are a major factor in your success with the search engines.

real estate SEOHere at the newly formed LinkRain group on activerainwe know all about the value of a backlink and we also realize how hard it can be to obtain relevant, quality backlinks from sites that will give you a true SEO Boost without looking suspicious, since we have been trying to do this ourselves for some time.

In case you’re not as familiar with backlinks (or even what a backlink is) let me give you a quick rundown on how they work: Basically, Google treats the internet like one big popularity contest. Whoever has the most “friends” gets the best seat at the table if you will. And in the SEO world “friends” mean backlinks.

Every time a real-estate site or a site that is closely related to your business links back to your website, Google treats this as a vote and adjusts where you rank in its search results accordingly. Get the most quality backlinks to your site and Google will rank you number one! For example, let’s say you are a local real estate agent in your community and you would like for your site to come up number one for the term “YourCommunityHere Homes For Sale”. While it is true that you will need to optimize your website to include that term (usually in the title and in the first line of the document) the best way to ensure that your site comes up on the first page is to have other websites link back to your site using the term “YourCommunityHere Homes For Sale”. That way, when Google sees these links coming from other real-estate sites it assumes that your site must be about “YourCommunityHere Homes For Sale”.

Make sense? This might be a little overwhelming to take in at first but the organizers here at LinkRain offer a free service to all of our group members that allows you to communicate with other real estate related websites all over the net and arrange for links to be traded back and forth.

Please note that this is not a “Link Exchange” in the traditional sense. Link Exchanges are where two people trade links between there two sites and Google will get wise to this very fast, we are proposing a completely different plan.

As I’m sure you can see there is an obvious benefit to this sort of membership available only to active rain members. Not only will you gain great backlinks for your website but you will also be helping other members of the Active rain community in a different part of the country!

 

May the great creator of backlinks rain down on us all!

linkrain chief

 

chief linkrain

 

Mike Jones
SUNSTREET MORTGAGE, LLC (BK-0907366, NMLS 145171) - Tucson, AZ
Mike Jones NMLS 223495

James,

Thanks for the invitation to your new group!  I've joined up, and look forward to participating.

Mike in Tucson

Dec 09, 2010 04:19 AM
Pamela Cendejas
Second Self Virtual Assistance - Kingman, AZ
Second Self Virtual Assistance (928) 692-3235

Hi James - This is great!  Thank you for thinking of me.  I look forward to being part of this group.

Dec 09, 2010 07:56 AM
James Harner
Considering Selling Your Home? Call 610-310-7646 first - Royersford, PA
James Harner Group - Philadelphia PA Real Estate

You're welcome, Mike and Pamela! Thank you also for accepting my invitation =)

Dec 09, 2010 08:16 AM
Hannah Williams
HomeStarr Realty - Philadelphia, PA
Expertise NE Philadelphia & Bucks 215-820-3376

James..Chief of the town! Great idea neighbor!

HelpfulHannah

Dec 09, 2010 12:30 PM
Eileen Hsu
Douglas Elliman Real Estate - Manhattan, NY
LICENSED REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON

James - Thanks for the invite. Looking forward to see you in the comments.

Dec 16, 2010 12:07 PM
Ginny Gorman
RI Real Estate Services ~ 401-529-7849~ RI Waterfront Real Estate - North Kingstown, RI
Homes for Sale in Southern RI and beyond
James, big chief rain...i like that & am interested and having been trying to do this for some time so help is appreciated. thanks for the invite
Dec 23, 2010 01:19 AM
James Harner
Considering Selling Your Home? Call 610-310-7646 first - Royersford, PA
James Harner Group - Philadelphia PA Real Estate

Hannah, Eileen & Ginny...welcome aboard!

Thanks very much for accepting my invitation.

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Dec 23, 2010 01:27 AM
Silvia Dukes PA, Broker Associate, CRS, CIPS, SRES
Tropic Shores Realty - Ich spreche Deutsch! - Spring Hill, FL
Florida Waterfront and Country Club Living

Hi James, thank you for inviting me to the group and also for adding me as an associate!  Looking forward to seeing what's next!  Happy New Year!

Dec 29, 2010 01:12 PM
Andrea Swiedler
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties - New Milford, CT
Realtor, Southern Litchfield County CT

James, thank you for the invite. I am looking forward to this, so... what's next?

Dec 29, 2010 01:22 PM
James Harner
Considering Selling Your Home? Call 610-310-7646 first - Royersford, PA
James Harner Group - Philadelphia PA Real Estate

Hello, Silvia and Andrea! Welcome aboard!

thanks for accepting my invitation!

A very happy new year to all of you!

Dec 29, 2010 06:14 PM
Endre Barath, Jr.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties - Beverly Hills, CA
Realtor - Los Angeles Home Sales 310.486.1002

James this is very interesting, I am a bit confused how you plan on accomplishing this? I understand when one exchanges with another.....but please educate the confused.

Feb 26, 2011 12:45 PM