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It goes without saying that the search engines - especially Google - are important if you want to get business from the web. Regardless of your business - and certainly if you are a real estate agent - it is tempting to assume there are just one or two search terms that you should focus on when trying to get search engine ranking. For example, you might assume if you are an agent in Toledo that your primary search term should be Toledo real estate or Toledo homes. This may be correct as far a... Read Full Post

To win at the search game you have to think like a search engine. That means you have to clearly spell out what each page is about. Thinking like a search engine means you should not make your visitors read between the lines to figure out what your content is about. For instance, if a particular web page is about Punkydoodles Corners homes, then the search engines should be able to clearly see that and then put that in their database: “This page is about Punkydoodles Corners homes.” In ot... Read Full Post

I have taken the week off and not spent any real time with the contest in the last week as I have been quite busy with the actual real estate part of my job. That's a good thing. I've fallen back to 5th place in the contest in that week as I see lots of others have kept quite busy by participating in online blog discussions, writing articles and more. So, my strategy for the last week has been to watch and see what others are doing/have done and see if there is anything new to learn. So far, ... Read Full Post

This one is short, but, squidoo has a really nice interface and a good deal of authority that might play well into this contest on its own or as an additional page to help your contest entry. I created a page here for the contest. What you will notice is that I actually added something of value in the form of the video to wards the bottom of the page. It's a youtube video that I had made for something else, but, it works quite well and adds a little fun to the contest. So if you need a little... Read Full Post

So here is my next tip to help keep your blog posts ranking well like my entry in the contest. If your not technically inclined or don't have a WordPress blog, this one won't apply, but, if you do this one can really help. Part of the problem that most of us have with blogs is that we can get a post to rank well and then it slips away into search engine oblivion. Here is something that can help keep all of your posts indexed. The only way I can I knew how to do this was to post an entry on my... Read Full Post

As an update to the contest, I will be posting something related to what I am personally doing fairly regularly for a couple of reason: I don't want anyone to think I cheated. I hope that something I say can help at least one person. Also, the goal for all of us here is to apply what we learn to our websites for our own business as well as to our clients. Both of those should in turn help consumers. I think these are good reasons to be in the contest. So one thing that I did was to post free ... Read Full Post