Microsoft has rebranded it’s search engine as BING.  Instead of the simplicity of the Google interface, they have a large image that is a bit distracting and yet still impressive looking.  The search box is prominent and employs a “search suggest” type functionality that we are all becoming used to since Google and Yahoo have made it part of their search engines. Search with Microsoft BING   Although it is certainly noticeable that they have updated their algorithm, one of the... 

Sylvester Stallone must be happy this past weekend because AMC was playing a multitude of Rambo movies.  Sly’s character of Rambo, truly is an amazing action hero.  He is constantly put in situations where seemingly he has no way out.  He must overcome overwhelming odds, with seemingly no way out in order to save the day.  Whether it is rescuing POW’s or the Colonel he always finds a way to come out on top. One of the neat aspects about Rambo is that he is not one dimensional.  Now,... 

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... 

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... 

In order for you to succeed with your SEO efforts, you will want as many of your pages visible to Google, Yahoo, MSN and the other search engines as possible! Now, you have probably read that the search engines have “spiders” constantly searching the web for new pages, but they won’t always get to all of the pages on your website. So…how do you ensure that the search engines see more of your web pages? Answer: Create a Sitemap Creating a Sitemap using FREE tools can help the...