ToC: SEO Articles

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Specialists Real Estate

Table of Contents: SEO Articles

Search Engine Optimization is the art and science of optimizing your web site to work with search engines. The objective is to rise to the top of search engine results by tuning your site into what search engines deem as relevant and popular. I'll be writing a series of blogs diving into different SEO topics. This will serve as the blog index for SEO.

Great SEO requires one or both of the following: time and/or money. Be prepared to spend ample time making your site popular and relevant or be prepared to pay someone to do it for you.

If done right, SEO will draw business to you. It is possible to have the phone ring and emails come in with clients on the other end.

Here are links to other SEO articles of interest written by other authors (I subscribe to several weekly newsletters providing great content):

For other real estate web design topics visit the index.

To join the Web Design Group visit the group home page.

SEO Tip: Improve your SEO efforts by linking to the search engine friendly Network for Professionals ProSPOTLIGHT. Here is the real estate agent perspective of the site.

Comments (26)

Alamo City Homes Magazine
Alamo City Homes Magazine - San Antonio, TX
I think I just found the holy grail for my website..
Mar 05, 2007 08:15 AM
Team Thayer Key Realty Group Inc
Key Realty Group Inc. - Eugene, OR
We will sell your house faster for more money

This is great stuff, but who has time in this business to do all of this SEO stuff on their own? If you are going to do it right and you are not a developer, I would suggest that You speak to one at least about the design layout of your site. What a blessing to have all of this information at our fingertips though!! Thanks a million!

 

Check out IBP 9.5 free trial!! SEO made easy!

http://www.axandra-web-site-promotion-software-tool.com/start-download.htm

 

Mar 05, 2007 11:16 AM
Agent Web Design
Specialists Real Estate - Las Vegas, NV

Eric: Thanks for your positive feedback!

Thayer Crew: I looked into IBP sometime ago and found that someone still has to do the work. IBP won't write your content and it won't create inbound links. It is a good tool to find out where you stand and give you guidelines but a webmaster or his developer still has to do the work of making the site popular and relevant.

Mar 05, 2007 11:58 AM
Maureen Maureen
Orangeburg, NY
Agent - Thank you so much for putting this all together.  I have a template site right now but plan to get my own site soon.  Thanks for the info. 
Mar 24, 2007 07:41 AM
Agent Web Design
Specialists Real Estate - Las Vegas, NV
Maureen: FYI your current site: http://www.rocklandhomestaging.com/ looks sharp. If it is a template site you may stick close to that layout and design...
Mar 24, 2007 04:16 PM
Rita Taylor
None - Sanford, NC
Sanford NC Real Estate - Homes for Sale in Sanford North Carolina

Thank you for all of the good topics you are covering here.  I am thinking of redoing my design to make it more user friendly and I will keep all of this in mind.  I am doing all of this myself (well, my husband helps) so it is nice to have a guide of sorts.  I am thinking of building my own template for some of the parts that appear on every page.  I have a bunch of neighborhood pages where everything is the same except where the map is centered and what level of zoom, and the sales comps.  I guess I need to sit down and think how to do it.  Maybe I can lay it out on paper first.

Rita 

Mar 24, 2007 05:04 PM
Agent Web Design
Specialists Real Estate - Las Vegas, NV
Rita: I am putting together a few articles on building a new site. You are right on by starting out with paper.
Mar 26, 2007 07:29 AM
Agent Web Design
Specialists Real Estate - Las Vegas, NV
Rebecca: all of this info has been organized in one site at http://www.hildrethhome.com/design/
Jun 04, 2007 04:02 AM
Konnie Mac McCarthy
MacNificent Properties, LLC - Cobb Island, MD
Broker/Owner - VA & MD "Time To Get A Move On!"
excellent..thank you for the information
Nov 04, 2007 01:20 PM
Mike West
Heritage Oak Properties - El Dorado Hills, CA
El Dorado Hills, CA CDPE, CNE, Licensed Loan Origi
SEO Question.  I just had a high pressure call from a company names USASEOPRO.com.  They claim to be  a highly effective SEO specialist with guarantees to first page placement.  I am not sure I understand it all, but they build something like a mirror site that links to your site without HTML errors.  They demonstrate other live sites with excellent placement, just no real estate sites yet.  They are not cheap.  Has anyone heard of them?  Has anyone had any experience with them?  Thanks.
Nov 08, 2007 11:24 AM
Anonymous
Dan Burnett
USASEOPROs SCAM.  Mike, I wish I had seen this entry sooner and I hope you haven't joined USASEOPROs.com.  They will get you on a search engines first page but those 100 page guarantees are on a search engine no one has ever heard of.  When you email them or call you get no response because they won't change the mirror site - they already have your money!  You could do the same thing, just list a hundred key words and submit, that's all they do.  You'll get your first page listings then drop off the grid.  This company is a scam and if they had a real storefront instead of the garage they work out of, you could go back and see three idiots working on a computer.  The only thing these scammers did right was hire a good salesman who knows the tricks of the trade.  Save your money Mike.
Nov 20, 2007 12:22 AM
#18
Gary McAdams
GMAC Schwartz Property Sales - Key West, FL
Great posting.  Very helpful.  Thank You!!!!!!!
Dec 17, 2007 06:59 AM
Greg Myers
G L Myers Real Estate Services - Chapel Hill, NC
Anyone in a hurry to sell something is not a good person with whom to do business. Understanding SEO is a good idea, but there is no substitute for good design and relevant content.
Feb 06, 2008 01:17 PM
Anonymous
Anonymous

same here, high pressured sales guy from usaseopros. why would anyone drop 2500-3000 to some guy after talking for only 15 minutes. he hung up after 30 minutes of me telling him he couldnt get our site 1st page on the exact keywords i wanted. adding your city to any keyword can get you first page, thats not where the traffic is at.

May 11, 2008 04:18 PM
#21
Carol Judd
New Star Real Estate - Vernal, UT
Vernal Utah Real Estate

Thanks for all the information and warnings.  I will bookmark this and get working on the information.

May 11, 2008 04:28 PM
Anonymous
Todd

USASEOPROS is a huge scam artist company... They burned us for $6000 last year and almost put my family out on the street because they lied to me and promised the world. It was strange now that I think about it because the owner of this company cold called me off some MLM list and pitched me and then promised me first page on Google for my keywords. Yea right! UsaSeoPros are flat out thieves.

Jul 12, 2008 06:03 AM
#23
Anonymous
Robert M Raskin

I have owned this business for 2 years. I admitt has not always been the bmost result drivinn business. However, business need this kind of advertising. If you are a business owner and spend money on other forms of promotion; you are wrong. the internet is where you should be and KJR managment aka Usaseopros.com can get you on page #1 of Jooper.com Confava and Kjoe maybe Google.

Mar 26, 2009 10:00 AM
#24
Agent Web Design
Specialists Real Estate - Las Vegas, NV

This article was updated some and I have posted new SEO resources

Apr 14, 2009 12:20 PM
Anonymous
Phil

This is a great video that exposes the truth about usaseopros: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgiY88EN7gc&fea

Anyone scammed by them, file reports with S. Nevada BBB (D+ rating) and the FTC. Help these agencies establish a pattern of fraud perpetrated by them. Tell your stories to the media. On top of unethical Terms of Service and strong arm selling tactics, they practice black hat SEO, which can actually get your website banned from search engines altogether. Don't answer calls from usaseopros(dot)com, Business Development Institute, BDI. Put these scammers out of business for good!

Apr 26, 2009 05:48 PM
#26
Anonymous
web design india

Thanks for u r information

its very useful

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