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Real Estate Websites and Outbound Links

Real Estate Websites and Outbound Links

Does your Real Estate Website have outbound links? The typical authority sites Zillow, Walkscore, and GreatSchools offer some great data and insight for your users. But to use that data, you have to link to the source. What is the ranking cost – if any?…

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Cool Stuff Free:  Google Page Speed Service

Cool Stuff Free: Google Page Speed Service

Google Page Speed Service has been around for a number of years. It is in Beta and currently free of charge (it has been free for several years now).  Upon the official release Google Page Speed Service pricing will be competitive. So how does it…

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Real Estate SEO | Be Better Than Your Competitors

Real Estate SEO | Be Better Than Your Competitors

The real estate industry is one of the most complex industries on Earth to gain market share in. The reason for this is the fact that hundreds of real estate agents are all competing against each other in their local market every day, yet they…

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Converting Your Real Estate Website Traffic Into Leads

Converting Your Real Estate Website Traffic Into Leads

Mоѕt buyers today prefer pulling up their favorite search engine and running a quick search online to find out аbоut the latest properties аvаilаblе on their local market, but the visitor to lead ratio with online traffic can be unusually low…if you don’t know how…

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Google Authorship and IDX – Are you doing it right?

Google Authorship and IDX – Are you doing it right?

Lots of agents, brokers and real estate web masters are implementing Google authorship markup on their websites and blogs. It’s a great way to get increased visibility in the SERPs, improve CTR, boost your personal branding and claim your original content as your own. However,…

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Geek Estate Community Members

Geek Estate Community Members

Thank you to everyone that took me up on the offer for a free link. Without further adieu  here are those in the Geek Estate community on Oh Hey World (sorted on closest geographically to me)… Sam DeBord – SeattleHome.com. Currently in [currentlocation user_slug=”sam”] Hayk Saakian – Skyreal….

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2 Minutes of Your Time for a Link

2 Minutes of Your Time for a Link

Here’s the deal. Everyone knows link building is VITAL to your SEO efforts, and usually fairly time consuming and/or expensive. So I’m going to give you a break and give you a link. I’ll make it drop dead easy…and free. EVERYONE with a profile tagged…

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The Problem with Trulia and Some Thoughts on How Beat ’em

The Problem with Trulia and Some Thoughts on How Beat ’em

Trulia is like the 8’th grade bully that looks like a 19 year old, stocky, goatied, man-child that looks like he can pile-drive you to the leaves with his left hand, only after you stand up for yourself and fight back he promptly leaves you…

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More Traffic Isn’t Always the Answer

More Traffic Isn’t Always the Answer

Companies want more leads. The first thing that comes to mind is “I need more traffic.” But is that really your problem? More traffic is not what you need In my previous job, one of the first things I did with a new or potential…

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A (Almost Free) Link Building Opportunity for Christmas

A (Almost Free) Link Building Opportunity for Christmas

Three things are making me write this post… 1. To win at SEO, you need links. Without fail, 90% of conversations I have with agents or brokers involve search engine optimization — and link building is where SEO is won or lost. 2. Everyone has a…

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