Google is by far the leader in traffic online for searches, so it is helpful to know how they are looking at pages and what they are up to. They actually provide a wonderful BLOG for webmasters so you can keep up to date on changes and make sure that you aren’t going to fall into the Penalty Box! http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/ Some of the posts are a bit more on the technical side, but please feel free to read through the ones that are of interest to you as there are some helpful... 

As you are continuing to practice your SEO skills through development of content and use of tools like WordTracker to find the most often searched words, sometimes we lose track of which words are the ones generating traffic and which ones are actually leading to conversions. The high volume search phrases “myarea real estate” are usually the most competitive and many strive to show up on the first page of Google so you can get those customers, but are they converting for you? It very... 

Widgets are small applications that can be put on your website using simple HTML. It’s a wonderful way to add functionality to your website without being a heavy programmer. There have been some great posts on ActiveRain speaking about some of the widgets related to real estate. Now, you may be asking, why would I want to use a widget? Here are some reasons you may want to emply a widget. They are FREE! Widgets can provide functionality in your website like a newsfeed that keeps your site... 

As real estate agents and other professionals working on real estate internet marketing have been coming online, a major focus has been on keywords and concentrating on those most popular keywords that people are typing. What about the keywords and phrases that don’t show up in many of the word research tools? The theory of “Long Tail” search is the following. It states that “the sum of the searches on all the low volume terms = the sum of the traffic on all the high volume... 

Increasing the time that a visitor stays on your website, increases the likely hood that they will contact you! This metric has been focused on a great deal by companies that run e-commerce websites, but we should be focusing on it as well. Here are 5 tips on how you can increase the time a user spends on your website. Pay Per Click Campaigns - Ensure that when you a user visits the landing page, it is what was advertised in the advertisement. For example, if you are advertising “Get a Free... 

Real estate Directories are a wonderful way to get inbound links pointing to your website to help you increase your visibility in organic searches. In order to maximize your real estate internet marketing you will want as many websites pointing to you as possible. Now, you want to be careful that you don’t accidentally join a link farm, which will actually hurt your results in the search engines. Quality real estate directories will have information that is of value to customers and may even... 

When we want to improve the results of our real estate seo efforts we have to have something to check their effectiveness. Now there are plenty of tools available that one can pay for. What is more rare is to find a website that offers free tools. In fact we found a site that allows you to check for FREE your real estate seo efforts. Please remember that Search Engine Optimization(SEO) will not producer instant results. When you focus on seo for your real estate website you will have long term results... 

Succeeding in organic results in Google, may be time consuming but it doesn’t have to be a total mystery! Google, has a wonderful webmaster center where you can learn many of the tips to succeed. Now…hold on….you are saying “I am not a webmaster, I am a real estate agent”, that’s ok! These tips can be passed on to your webmaster (because they don’t always know what to do) and many of them you can do yourself! Submit your site to Google -sounds obvious, but... 

Choosing a company to help you with your real estate agent website shouldn’t be difficult. Although there are many different vendors out there to decide from, the best part to decide first is what you will want out of the company. Here are 5 quick checklist items that you should think about when deciding on who to choose for your real estate agent website. Will you upload new content pages for FREE? - Some vendors like Advanced Access will post up new pages for you if you send them the content... 

In order to maximize your search engine optimization strategy for your real estate website you will want to have other wesbites link to your website. Increasing your inbound links is a way to increase your organic results in the search engines which will help in your overal search engine optimization strategy so you can generate more leads. This sounds simple in principle, but it often seems difficult to know where to start to get websites to link to yours. Here are a few ideas: Directory Links...