http://www.realestatewebmasters.com By far the leader of the Search Engine Pack, a real estate site ranking at the top of Google, is an amazingly powerful lead generation tool. Discuss how to rank your real estate site in Google HERE! en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:41 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/images/new/misc/rss.jpg http://www.realestatewebmasters.com http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=39242&goto=newpost Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:43:12 GMT I was doing some spot checking of my content on Copyscape and noticed that G! has indexed my price table pages for each price range. For example, my town page has original content about that town and a price table and snippet (like most REW customers create). Each price range has it's own individual page and is indexed with that same content.

My question is will this duplicate content be penalized in any way?

Have other agents noticed this and created a robots.txt to ignore the duplicate pages? ]]> Real Estate and Google SCP http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=39242 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=39212&goto=newpost Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:46:16 GMT Hello, I have recently created a few external blogs with links pointing to my primary site. Examples are www.sananselmohomesforsale.com (http://www.sananselmohomesforsale.com) and www.tiburonrealtor.com (http://www.tiburonrealtor.com). They both have links pointing to www.marinrealestate.net... Hello,

I have recently created a few external blogs with links pointing to my primary site. Examples are www.sananselmohomesforsale.com and www.tiburonrealtor.com. They both have links pointing to www.marinrealestate.net. Is this seen as black hat and what does Google think of this practice? ]]> Real Estate and Google Marin Real Estate http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=39212 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=39110&goto=newpost Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:32:41 GMT 1. Having squeeze pages contained content that was full of sales hype rather than being useful and informative. 2. If Google finds or determines that the page that potential customers visit when they click on the ad is not relate and is poor in quality 3. Pages that took a while to load 4. The... 1. Having squeeze pages contained content that was full of sales hype rather than being useful and informative.
2. If Google finds or determines that the page that potential customers visit when they click on the ad is not relate and is poor in quality
3. Pages that took a while to load
4. The content on your page was not related to the keyword that you were bidding on. This is a huge no no which will hurt your Quality Score and you will most likely get slapped by Google.
Solution: Make sure that the content on your landing page matches the keywords you are bidding on.
5. The landing page is a squeeze page and does not link to other web pages.
Solution: In the footer, have at least a couple of links to other sites (on the same domain or other domains). Google frowns upon pure squeeze pages and will slap you if that is what you do.
6. The landing page is full of beautiful graphics but not enough text.
Solution: The Google bot cannot read text that is part of an image file so make sure that all of your copy is in text form.
7. The Ad Groups are not targeted. In other words, you have Ad Groups with many different keywords.
Solution: Break up your Ad Groups into highly targeted Ad Groups

Result

Google deactivates your keywords until you either pay a hefty penalty cost per click, or make some changes to increase your quality core.
A penalty cost per click means that instead of paying just 20 cents per click (for example), you can be forced to pay anything between 1 and 50 dollars per click. And at the same time, the position of your ad goes way down or worst will not run if the score is too low.
Getting slapped by Google is a bleak situation. It can take two to three months to get un-slapped for that keyword, sometimes even longer. If you get slapped you could just set your improved landing page up on a new domain. It’’s either that or wait indefinitely.

Google slap can result to having a PR 0 of 10, no traffic, and a Quality Score of 10 being reduced to 1.

A few things that Google consistently appears to look for include original and significant content on landing pages (the page a person goes to when they click on your ad), transparent business dealings and upfront information about how you conduct business, and easy methods for searching your website from the landing page.
Google Slap - Pagerank Penalty

Google penalizes those who manipulate the search engine crawlers. For instance, when you buy or sell links to help you or others increase pagerank, you are manipulating the search engine.

Be careful who you link to because if that person is manipulating the system, it is possible that you can get in trouble too. ]]> Real Estate and Google Hardmoneyloans http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=39110 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=39028&goto=newpost Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:55:02 GMT I would assume that Google remove's links after encountering numerous 404s, but I just want to make sure. Is there something that I have to do manually to get thing unindexed? ]]> Real Estate and Google NancyDennisAssociates http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=39028 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38972&goto=newpost Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:36:06 GMT There is so much information and misinformation about how to climb up the ladder on google, that my head hurts. My question is - why are sites that seem to have hardly any content, a few pages, hardly any keywords, very few backlinks and hardly any traffic on the top positions on google? The... There is so much information and misinformation about how to climb up the ladder on google, that my head hurts.

My question is - why are sites that seem to have hardly any content, a few pages, hardly any keywords, very few backlinks and hardly any traffic on the top positions on google?
The only thing I can see that I could point to is
1. the url matches the keywords exactly or the url has the keywords in it somehow e.g. cityrealestate being the keywords and the url is either cityrealestate dot com or cityrealestatetour dot com etc.
2. the url has been registered for a long time e.g. since 2000, 1998, 2004 instead of 2008.

Anybody have any other ideas?
:) ]]> Real Estate and Google kenna real estate http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38972 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38939&goto=newpost Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:06:58 GMT How are Sales on South Padre Island?
South Padre Island's real estate sales have been steadily climbing throughout 2009. At the end of the third quarter, sales have already reached $97million, $36 million higher than the total sales for 2008. If this were any other city in the United States, this would be remarkable news. South Padre Island should be the talk of the nation with recovery statistics and new housing activities like these yet, it is not getting the attention it deserves. Foreclosure numbers as well as median price numbers for South Padre are also remarkable compared to the rest of the nation. ]]> Real Estate and Google SouthPadreIslandRealtor http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38939 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38935&goto=newpost Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:37:40 GMT For those with REW template sites...is getting a sub-page ranked harder than ranking a main page? For example, I created the main page as 'County Real Estate' and then created sub-pages for each city in that county.

I've been having a hard time ranking most of my sub pages. ]]> Real Estate and Google Matt Scoggins http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38935 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38919&goto=newpost Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:58:59 GMT I believe that forums like this are very helpful for building relevant links to my real estate website while sharing an conributing ideas and thoughtswith other forum members... I believe that forums like this are very helpful for building relevant links to my real estate website while sharing an conributing ideas and thoughtswith other forum members... ]]> Real Estate and Google manila estates http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38919 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38905&goto=newpost Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:24:36 GMT I have been reading many post, watching videos and searching for answers. The problem I have is where to start...

What I have put together is, in no order:

Backlinks through Article Submissions
Directories
Relevant content on my site

If someone can direct me to a basic 'where to start' post or give your own ideas I would appreciate it.

History on my site. I went live with the LEC2 beginning of 2009, set up what I could but so busy that I could never focus on the basic fundamentals of a website which includes keywords, descriptions, and content.

[b]The question I have for the experienced[/B]..."if you had to start from the beginning but knowing what you know now...what would be your first steps on the road to ranking?"

Now I understand that there is SO MUCH MORE to placing higher in search engines than I could ever imagine. Trying to put all the information together is tough. I am considering hiring REW for some things but not even sure what to hire them for because I do not know what is more important. ]]> Real Estate and Google carlosreym http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38905 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38860&goto=newpost Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:51:27 GMT Does this concern anyone? I wonder how far they are going to go with this... http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/web_services/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221400159 Does this concern anyone? I wonder how far they are going to go with this...

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=221400159 ]]> Real Estate and Google EastCoast http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38860 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38851&goto=newpost Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:24:39 GMT Ive read alot of interesting articles on googles indexing standards but if you submit a site map, and lets say, of a 100 urls, 4 get indexed, is this google narrowing it down to common urls etc ? E.g. do i have to go through and make my urls more unique ? this all seemed to happen arround... Ive read alot of interesting articles on googles indexing standards

but if you submit a site map, and lets say, of a 100 urls, 4 get indexed, is this google narrowing it down to common urls etc ?

E.g. do i have to go through and make my urls more unique ?

this all seemed to happen arround the time of url writes, should i worry any way ? e.g. this is just their site map indexing standard ? but search engines will show up with the separate content based on other things ? ]]> Real Estate and Google nzrealestate http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38851 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38805&goto=newpost Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:18:30 GMT FYI - It looks like Google has done PR toolbar update. FYI - It looks like Google has done PR toolbar update. ]]> Real Estate and Google MarcinSarasota http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38805 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38781&goto=newpost Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:36:59 GMT I am trying to gain a greater understanding of the value of linking to other websites, both in terms of increased traffic and monetary value. If I am approached by a real estate site that is getting 25k hits per day, and they want me to pay to link to it... how do you determine the value of... I am trying to gain a greater understanding of the value of linking to other websites, both in terms of increased traffic and monetary value.

If I am approached by a real estate site that is getting 25k hits per day, and they want me to pay to link to it... how do you determine the value of something like that?

If 3,000 other agents are also linking to the site, does the fact that there are that many similiar links help me in the long run? I guess it would but how do you put a dollar figure on that?

do paid ads in directories help? ]]> Real Estate and Google over40 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38781 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38747&goto=newpost Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:29:28 GMT Let's say on google webmaster it states that 10,000 of the submitted urls on my sitemap are indexed by google. However, when I go to site:mydomain.com on google search, only 1/10 of that amount is listed. Which statistic is right?

thanks in advance. ]]> Real Estate and Google nyccountryhomes http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38747 http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38691&goto=newpost Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:11:41 GMT It looks to me that Google has indexed my site both with the www and without. Is there a way to make sure Google only indexes the site 1 way? It looks to me that Google has indexed my site both with the www and without. Is there a way to make sure Google only indexes the site 1 way? ]]> Real Estate and Google TheRealOBX http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=38691