The 2nd edition of our 10 Minute WordPress SEO video series is up — this one on the topic of permalinks. Head over to the Virtual Results Blog and follow along for some good learnings from Jim.

As Jim said in the podcast he did with Diverse Solutions, there is no better time to switch to WordPress than now IF you are going to do it. There are of course no guarantees when it comes to SEO (anyone that says otherwise is…

Jim and I speak with a number of agents and brokers with WordPress sites (or in the process of moving to WordPress) on a daily basis. On almost every single call, our clients and potential clients ask us about SEO. The first question we often…

If you fall into the large bucket of agents and brokers looking to better understand SEO with the goal of increasing the traffic on your website, I fully recommend listening to the first edition of Diverse Solutions On Air Radio show. Ricardo Bueno conducted a…

Can Facebook “Likes” & Twitter “Tweets” Influence Search Engine Rankings? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself for quite awhile. Thankfully, Rand and his team at SEOmoz have been collecting data, and they’ve reported their findings on Facebook + Twitter’s Influence on Google’s Search Rankings. Many…

I was just reading Ricardo’s post over on the Diverse Solution blog about XML sitemaps. And I wanted to debunk a myth I’ve heard numerous times from agents across the country about XML sitemaps for everyone reading. XML sitemaps will NOT help you improve your…

In the past, I always concentrated on optimizing my web pages for Google first, and Yahoo! and Bing second. That’s because Google’s competitors delivered a fraction of the traffic—making the search giant my go to source. But when Yahoo! threw in the towel and announced…

I have been networking with agents over the last few weeks about marketing their business online.  Despite the fact that they all came from different backgrounds, ages, genders, and just about anything else you could think of, there was one commonality amongst them all, which…

As Google continues to evolve its algorithms in order to provide the most relevant search results (and maintain its dominance of the web), real estate professionals must adapt if they are to contend in the highly competitive RE.net world. Up until recently, for many SEO’s…

We all know “linkbuilding” is important to getting your site to rank highly in the search engines. I just randomly decided to check the inbound links to WordPress.org since they just released WP 3.1 today — and I think I found the king of linkbuilding…