As we all pour through various blogs and RSS feeds striving for those great “tips” to give our website the best chance in Google we sometimes miss the obvious.  Google actually provides a webmaster help center to help you make your site easier to understand by Google.  Now, before your eyes roll into your head thinking this is like a tech nightmare with odd formulas that can only be understood by Stanford PhD’s, think again. Here is what the Google Webmaster Guidelines says about... 

Getting to the top of Google is possible with well directed SEO efforts. One of your major tasks is identifying how Google looks at your site.  They can take a look at your website and identify areas that they think visitors will want.  These pages that Google displays in the search results are known as Sitelinks.  These Sitelinks are extremely valuable as it really demonstrates to someone searching that Google has found specific pages in your website that they want them to be aware of.  How... 

Well, not just a channel that’s on TV anyway (although that might happen someday).  The Google channel on YouTube is actually filled with great tips for your SEO skills and more.  They often feature Matt Cutts, Google Guru in charge of search, and they address topics ranging from the latest features in GoogleMaps API, Google Webmaster Tools, to the importance of using Alt Tags for images on your website.   You can subscribe to the channel today, I would recommend checking out some of the... 

As you are working on your overall search engine marketingefforts, it is nice to see how Google is tracking your progress. :)  A wonderful free resource is the Google Webmaster Tools.  This allows you to track keep track of your websites with Google and stay on top of things like your Sitemaps and the most recent keywords people are finding your website on. If you haven’t yet signed up for the Google Webmaster Tools(it is FREE ), here are a couple of ways you can check to see what Google... 

Looking at just the home page of your website to ensure a user gets to the “most important” areas of your website can be a big mistake. I have seen some groups state that you MUST put a tool to search the MLS and a tool for CMA’s prominent on your home page because that’s what a internet buyer is looking for. While I think they are often looking for that type of information, only making tools like that easy to get to on your home page can lead to losing the visitors who enter... 

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...