50 Proven SEO Tactics for Real Estate Agents
50 Proven SEO Tactics for Real Estate Agents – SEO – Search Engine Optimization or maybe you’ve heard of SEM, which stands for Search Engine Marketing, are essentially the same thing. It’s setting up your online presence, be it your website, blog or social media presence, for the best possible return on investment, time and […]
What’s Working in Organic SEO and How Long Does it Take?
Organic SEO used to be a thing that changed about every 2-3 months in the early 2000s. Google was constantly working to weed out the fakers, line-skippers, and spammers and it’s gotten pretty good at it too. Now that the kinks are pretty much ironed out, not much has changed. Sites still need good content […]
How to Use the SEM Rush Audit Tool with IDX Websites
As a subscriber to SEMrush and as an SEO Pro I tend to want to use tools that other pros are using. SEMrush has been regarded as a great tool so I wanted to dive in deep and see if I can get a brand new site to not only rank but also to a […]
If You Want to Compete, Know Your Competition
“To know your enemy, you must become your enemy” — Sun Tsu Art of War This book has so much to offer everyone regardless of your business, where you are in life, or your age. It is non-discriminatory on all of these areas. Whether you are competing in the business world, trying to get along […]
How to Gain Great Back Links and What Back Links to Avoid
Back links, or a link somewhere else on the web that links back to your website, is a valuable resource and SEO tool. It’s almost impossible to rank on Google search engines or to be found without some sort of back link. There are two types of back links: no follow and do follow. A […]
SEO Marketing on a Daily Basis
A couple reciprocal links, maybe a few blog followers and some intentional page titles and boom! You’re on the first page of Google… yeah, like 10 years ago. Today it’s harder than ever. If you didn’t start 10 years ago you have a lot of catching up to do, but it’s not impossible. Simple maintenance […]
Is Your Website Competing or Just an Online Calling Card?
Real estate SEO is getting so difficult and while it’s not impossible, it is harder and harder to compete with the big, national companies. For many searches real estate related, the entire first page of most search engines is covered by Trulia, Zillow, Homes.com, Realtor.com, or national brokerage sites. There may only be one or […]
News Articles and Market Reports – Duplicates and SEO No No’s
Do you post news articles on your blog from major news sources and site the source? Do you do it more than you write original content? How about market reports? Do you copy and paste the same template and then change just the community, town and prices? Bad. Now, it’s ok to once in a […]
Google’s Panda 4.0 Update Targets More Low Quality Content
The Panda 4.0 is a major update versus just a refreshing of the current algorithm. Pandas identify sites that have low quality content such as thin or duplicate content. Currently tracking down low quality sites and knocking them down a few pages and boosting high quality content up the search engine ranks. This could be […]
Google Wants to See You Everywhere… Well, everywhere that matters
Google Wants to See You Everywhere… Well, everywhere that matters 10 years ago it was easy to get ranked because not that many people were doing it. Search engine optimization was a new technique that not many knew about and those that were, were finding shortcuts, loopholes, and ways to scam the system. Those that […]