This tool, recently released by Google looks like an enhanced version of their trends tool.  Google Insights though gives some great data for some lower volume word searches which trends never seemed to do. http://google.com/insights/search/ Carefully using this tool you can find some hidden jewels of keywords that you might not have yet uncovered.  With their “Rising Searches” feature you may be able to jump start some content into your blog and website and take advantage of traffic... 

Here is a real estate SEO tool that I had checked out just a little while ago, but didn’t take the time to DIG in :).  I had some time to play with it and I have to admit that it is a pretty sweet tool.  It takes quite a bit of guess work out and would be a great compliment with your other SEO tools. In a nutshell SEO Digger tells you what keywords your site ranks for in the top 20 of Google.  It also compares how you do against the WordTracker and Overture Index.  You can run searches... 

 Keywords truly form the foundation of both blogs and real estate websites.  In order for our blogs and websites to be found they need to be rich with the content that people are actually searching for. Your content should be well written and the search engine determines what the page is about by “looking” at the page and seeing the different “keywords” that compose the page.  Now, there are a couple of basic ways you can find out what people are searching on out there. ... 

Have you had a vacation planned and all you could do was research what to do there and what it was going to be like? You just wanted to see how you could spend your time there and it became a huge topic of conversation among family, friends, and coworkers.  If you can invoke the same emotion (or at least close) with your real estate website or blog you will have a hit on your hands and a lead generation machine that just keeps providing leads for you day in and day out. People will talk about your... 

 Across the blogosphere I have seen many posts speaking about how to get your website a higher PageRank™.  In fact in some cases it has become an obsession to get as high a PageRank as possible.  So exactly what is PageRank and how important is it really?For those new to marketing their websites and learning about Google, PageRank™ (often referred to as “PR”) is a system that has been developed by the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, that demonstrates the level of... 

 Have you ever made the decision to join a gym with just a bit of hesitation?  I mean, you know it is the right thing to do, but you still are just a little reluctant to get in there and get to working out.  After all, the mere thought of exercise has the word “work” in “working out”, so it must be painful, right? In fact, the overwhelming anxiety of joining the gym and then doing something like working out stops many from ever attempting the task! This is not much different... 

I have always found it amazing that many real estate professionals say “I want to have a great website, but I just don’t know what to write.”  Really? I ask that same person about their area though and they just can’t shut up.  They tell me everything from the best streets to live on, the types of homes, and what sq footages are most common but their website says nothing about it!  I always say, just write what you just told me and you will have a great website.  It really can be that... 

Have you been wondering if SEO will improve your real estate business? I don’t think you have to look any farther than realtor.com. They are the number 1 website for real estate and they have reported that today over 700,000 different search phrases were used in order to find their website. Now this is great but what does it mean to the average real estate agent trying to do SEO (Search Engine Optimization)? What it means is there is an absolute gold mine for Realtors® is those that focus... 

First, what is a sitemap?  A sitemap is a way to let search engines like Google and Yahoo know the pages that are on your website. Now, you might say, I thought Google was supposed to send GoogleBot out to find out about all of the pages on my site, why do I need this sitemap?  Well, GoogleBot will still visit your website but it may miss pages.  Creating a sitemap can allow Google to quickly and easily add more of your web pages to their index.  And the more pages we have in the index, the greater... 

What is standing in the way of most real estate professionals and success in the search engines is something that is not technical at all.  The reality is that most real estate professionals don’t understand the simple benefits of keywords and the content on their website.  Here are some tips to break down the fears of content creation so you can start succeeding with your real estate SEO efforts. Develop a list of keywords that relate to your website’s focus.  You can do this by...