Comments on: Real Estate SEO – Here Today & Gone Tomorrow

By: John - Vancouver WA Homes

John - Vancouver WA Homes — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:53:40 +0000

Like Barry, the top local competition I face has a PR1, while my site is a PR2 yet, they rank very much higher owing to a more diverse set of inbound links. I’m plugging away at diversifying, increasing, and improving the links that point to my sites, and am slowly seeing progress (thank goodness!).

By: Harrison Rental Property

Harrison Rental Property — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:42:38 +0000

Nice post,Its true real estate seo will be always beneficial for real estate industry.wonderful post. Its really informative and will help me lot. Thanks for posting.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:59:35 +0000

@ Barry

Usually links will take affect shortly after the site is crawled from where you received the link.

One thing to keep in mind, is that page rank means very little. This is why you’ll see PR 2 & 3 sites that outrank PR 4-5′s. You are correct about domain age, Google does like older domains. However, this is fairly easy to overcome, with great content and a decent backlink portfolio.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:53:54 +0000

@ Cary NC “Is being ethical and informative enough?” Yes, it can be, you just have to be heard in the correct places.

For instance, we all know blogging and blogging regularly is a valuable thing to do. We can all agree that getting mentioned on a local NBC website would be great. Even more-so if the news channel constantly promoted there real estate section on their T.V. commercial.

Would be even GREATER if the NBC site decided that you provided great content and was worthy to be placed on their real estate section via your RSS reader. Well guess what?? We’ve managed to get this done on several occasions

Check it out http://www.nbcdfw.com/around-town/real-estate/ every post that we publish gets added automatically to one of our local most trafficked websites.

While the links offer limited value, since they are temporary, the FREE traffic is Great!

By: Barry Lynn Miller -REMAX

Barry Lynn Miller -REMAX — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:55:59 +0000

When you do pick up a link and say its a pr of 2-5 when will it actually help your SEO
1. Right away
2. At the next time Google crawls your site
3. or when the new pr comes out

Another question that I have and you might have a post about it but and I don’t want to seem like I am spamming (although I do like the Link)

Every agent around me as a pr of 1 they have not figured the SEO concept out or don’t care but anyway
If I build up to say a pr of 3 will and use proper keywords should that kick me to top of the list?

There is an agent locally that has a 10 year + domain
My content is better
My backlinks are better

But she is still in front so it has to be domain age
her pr is 1 and mine is 1 but if I get to 3 will I start coming before her

I mean her content is terrible and hasn’t changed in months if not years

Sorry this is off topic

By: Cary NC Homes for Sale

Cary NC Homes for Sale — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:01:36 +0000

It’s so easy to forget how quickly all this tech changes. We learn something and often take for granted that next week or next month it will be the same. So you bring up an excellent point when you say what functions today may be broken tomorrow.

I did have a question though. You talk about “highlighting the benefits” of link building. Sometimes it’s difficult to get your voice to stand out in a massive sea of voices as webmasters have become more wary of these contacts. Other than providing content that solves people’s problems, what other suggestions do you have? Is being ethical and informative enough?

By: Robert Worthington

Robert Worthington — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:54:28 +0000

Webmasters are generally smart, because they know the users who frequently come back to their site because of the quality of the content. Webmasters are smart, they can tell if someone want to leave a comment for link juice, or if the person if truly interested in the conversation or blog and if the person can add quality comments to the website. Webmasters also want someone who cares about unique quality content. I have developed many great relationships but have not asked for a link. It’s not about the link, it’s about knowledge and building relationships with people in the same industry to get knowledge and stay ahead of the pack! Sometimes you just get lucky and pickup a link along the way. My motto is friends first, links last.