He’s already begun on a new design which will still include great internet marketing content and a social media aspect as well. So be on the lookout for a new look to the site sometime here in the next few weeks.

I’d also like to personally thank a few Realtors for all there contributions to RealtyRankings.

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Thanks Everyone!

One of the most frequent questions that website owners ask their SEO is the list of keywords for which they have managed to get rankings for their customers’ websites. The next question that follows is whether the SEO company or the SEO consultant will be able to provide a list of references that they can contact. If that is what you have in your list too, then it is high time that you strike them off and try to review the skills of your SEO professional and his or her ability to come up with strategies that will help your website.

Past Rankings and References Are Futile

You must know that as a company or as a consultant who wants to win your contract, if you were to ask some one about the keywords for which they have ranked websites, they are very unlikely to show you their failures. Moreover, success stories presented out of context of the customer requirements will make no sense. No company or no SEO professional will share their customer requirements when they share the success stories as they are bound by non-disclosure agreements.

Search engine ranking is a very complex factor and each website is different. It is just not the SEO professionals efforts that bring success or failure of a website’s online presence. The nature of the website itself has a lot to control. So all rankings cannot be considered equal. Rankings on the first page or #1 rankings in the top search engines do not tell anything to us as far as the success of your real estate website’s SEO is concerned. Success stories should always be accompanied by the effectiveness analytics and no SEO company will share with you this information. Therefore, your questions on past rankings do not help you in any way in identifying your SEO consultant.

Coming to the next question that people ask, it is about references. What do we hope to find out by asking for references? By asking for references we are hoping to find out about the quality of the services offered by the company by talking to their past customers. No SEO in their good senses will list references that will put them in trouble. You can be 100% sure that only happy customers of the past will be supplied to you as the list of references. So here again, you will be just wasting your time asking for the list of references and contacting them. Contacting references will make sense if you are going to track them by yourself and contact them.

It is interesting to note that every real estate website owner understands these dynamics well and not that these are new insights. Despite our understanding, all of us find ourselves asking these questions to our SEO companies before hiring them. If these are not the right questions to ask your SEO company, then how should one assess their SEO company before hiring them?

The best way to hire your SEO company

Before you set out to hire your SEO company, you must make sure you understand your needs first. You must have a basic understanding about SEO only then you will know what to expect of your SEO company and what results mean with regard to SEO. In other words, you should be a well-informed customer. After educating yourself about the basics of SEO, you should start taking to the SEO companies to learn about their understanding about the real estate market, the competition involved in the real estate industry etc. They should be capable of understanding your business model to effectively promote your website online. Rather than asking about the past rankings and references, you can ask them about the strategies and tools that they would be using to promote your website.

Nanaimo, has got to be one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen. Next year the family will definitely have to come. Doesn’t have to be all about work.

I’m certain that when he first launched his Quantum Leap System program, it had to have a significant impact on most Realtors careers. However, it seems the Craig has not updated his system in years. Much of what worked 8 or even 2 years ago does not work in todays fasted paced real estate market.

For instance, his success websites in my opinion are a hugh joke (yes I had one and yes it got me leads).  While the site obtains leads, most of the leads are pretty much worthless. You have to sort through 100s of leads  just to find one decent prospect, to much work for me . There is a much better way to obtain on-line business than to give out foreclosure lists to every wanna be investor out there.

Your real estate site should have the latest MLS Search capabilities, as well as the latest market information, become your local markets real estate authority.  You won’t need to trick prospects into leaving a trail, as a matter a fact, they’ll seek out your services!