I am just wondering what your business would be like if you were no longer ranked with Google? I have had one closing b/c of my website so I would be about the same, but I am getting a lot of leads lately. Would your business suffer if you were dropped?

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Holland Michigan Real Estate | Holland MI Real Estate | Lake Michigan Real Estate

My business is primarily referrals at this point, and the only thing that I rank for right now (not PR, but listed on the page) is: loan officer tips. Which is a good thing since I train Loan Officers, but no leads that way....definitely something I am working on though.

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Andy Scherer
Senior Loan Specialist
Mortgage Trainer

Google is the number one search engine so that is what people use to find us, if we weren't there then we would not exist in the minds of our users. A big problem.

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LandWatch.com - #1 source for land and rural retreats
Land for Sale

Despite my best efforts, Google still brings 48% of my traffic. I try to keep that number as low as possible by driving traffic from other sources. If I somehow lost placement in Google it would be a bad day!

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Lydia Taylor, Realtor & Broker

Augusta GA Real Estate | North Augusta SC Real Estate | Augusta GA Home Search

My percentage from Google is very similar to Lydia's. My goal is to have a wide variety of traffic sources so I will not be devasted if I lose rankings with any single source.

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Eddy Kicker
Greenville SC Relocation Specialist
Greenville SC Real Estate
Simpsonville SC Real Estate
Greer SC Real Estate

If I lost all rankings it would hurt, but PPC would replace it very quickly. You can't count on natural rankings for ever and must have a backup plan IMO.

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My thoughts on the Sarasota Association of REALTORS actions.

will be somewhat though, but are referrals

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San Diego Real Estate | San Diego Foreclosures | San Diego Short Sales

I don't know why you would want to keep that number as low as possible wouldn't you want to increase your traffic through google.

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Bellingham Real Estate
Bellingham Condos
Bellingham MLS

Its spreading & varying your portfolio of assets.

If for whatever reason, google changed their algorithms and you don't rank well, you would still have business coming in from alternative means - while you worked on getting back in the google rankings.

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Jennifer Karlen & Jon Karlen
Kentucky Horse Farms - Louisville Kentucky Real Estate - Lexington Kentucky Real Estate
Serving the Louisville KY metropolitan area including Jefferson County - Prospect Shelby County - Shelbyville Oldham County - Goshen, La Grange and the Lexington KY metropolitan area including Fayette County - Lexington Woodford County - Versailles Scott County - Georgetown Jessamine County - Nicholasville

If we didn't have big G, I guess we would have yahoo, aol and msn. Hopefully, we'd be doing similarly with the other search engines.

Otherwise, I'd be wearing out a pair of shoes.

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Randy Watson Texas Real Estate Agent
Mission Realty-San Antonio Real Estate
San Antonio Real Estate