Do you want to build traffic on your site?

Some low cost SEO (Search Engine Optimization)  things you can do to promote your site include:  

1. Trade link with sites similar to yours in content.   Example if you sell car parts swap links with local car dealers, leasing and financing.   Anchor links is the text you use to describe your site.  The work link repeated on your pages will tend to flag it is an attempt to raise search engine ratings and may be of little value in doing what it was intended too. Receiving a link from a site with excellent content is what is most beneficial.  Look here to find out more about the importance of Anchor links.  June 2006 Goggle search known as BigDaddy no longer places many links on a page as a way it used to rank sites.  See details below.

2. Expand the content that is relative to your site.  Visitors and search engines will find me value in more content and the more returning visitors increase your likely hood to be ranked higher. 

3.  Don't forget mega tags and site description.   Place what would draw visitors and what types of searches would you imagine visitors would use to find your site in this part of your site..  If you want to see your site as Search Engines do  check the page at ScrubtheWeb it's free.  It will tell you your site is not robot friendly because this is too big and that is too small.  I don't place too much importance in there suggestions a lot has changed since that site was created.

If you want to get started Trading links for free or pay for it, this page is ideal for real estate related sites

Just the same if your not #1 in your field you can check any site's links with the link popularity chart here or use Web Analytics TrafficAnalyzer is a combined, in depth keyword tracking and web analytics solution

 

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Scott is a real estate professional at Prudential California Realty of  San Leandro where he has worked for the past 17 years.   Scott's works the San Leandro, Hayward, San Lorenzo, Oakland, Fremont, Pleasanton real estate market areas in California .  You can contact Scott at 510-276-2020 x 132


 


Tables Turn and Google switched gears.
June 22 2006  Bigdaddy is the new Google infrastructure put in place to enhance the general quality of search results by using an algorithm to throw out sites that are of poor quality or obvious spam. 

Now reasearch of Google, Yahoo, and MSN find linking with fellow real estate professionals is not a smart idea if done in the context of attempting to rank higher in those search engines.  Click here to read the complete article.

One of the most important changes is the way your inbound and outbound links affect your reputation in Google.  The past few years have seen many link schemes created in an attempt to fool Google into thinking a particular site is an authority with many valuable incoming links.  Those days are now over.  If your website has one or many pages that consist of nothing but a long list of links to other websites, then it is time to pay attention.  Please note that those links are not helping you.  

If you have a link on a page that is indexed then Google it may be counting that link in your favor if the page is a quality page  (content is King).  With the latest Bigdaddy update pages not indexed have no value according to Google.  
 
Modified from

Jane Basford  (305-872-5263)
Assistant to:
Patti Nickless, Broker-Associate