How SEO and Blogs can help boost real estate sales
November 9, 2008
How SEO and Blogs can help boost real estate sales
Real estate is big business. You don’t need me to tell you that. Not just online but offline as well. Many real estate agencies fail to use the internet to their advantage. Yes, having a website is great. You can have people browse real estate listings whether buying a home or renting an apartment.
Real estate, being the billion dollar industry it is, can make for difficult optimization.
An real estate agency has a substantially better chance of increasing traffic to it’s website by focusing it’s optimization efforts toward a specific geographical area. Doing so will help in establishing a presence for the site while eliminating the need to compete based on standard industry termed content that will not differentiate an agency in Seattle from an agency in Sarasota. A Blog is a great way to begin achieving results by sticking to this formula. The idea behind a blog is that you can create optimized content that your potential clients would find useful and bring them to your site. Simply include your geographically related keywords and phrases in the content. For example, if you have listings for apartments in NY, a good posting for a blog might be “What to Look For When Apartment Shopping in NYC”. You could discuss what a renter should look for when shopping for an apartment in NYC, the necessity of renter’s insurance in NYC, overpriced areas of NYC, etc… Try to keep the content fresh and exciting to read. Remember, people may come across your article on a search engine and consequently decide to visit your site and use your services.
One thing that has made a blog a valuable tool is RSS. RSS lets us announce information as soon as it happens. How does this help a realtor? Let’s say I am hunting for an apartment. I may not have the time to check your site every few hours for updated listings. If I have a “my yahoo page”, my MSN or any RSS reader set up, I would know instantly that a listing became available.
With RSS, you won’t have to worry about spam filters blocking your emails. It’s beneficial for both clients and agents.
The point is to stand out from your competition. Setting up a blog and utilizing RSS are two ways that can be achieved. Also, try to set the goal of becoming the most valuable resource for information pertaining to your market and specialty.
Whether buying or renting, people need a place to turn to for information. If you can provide it, you will have plenty of traffic and clients to match.
Visit Joe’s site for Affordable SEO His podcast offers Information and tips on SEO For articles on SEOvisit his blog
Testing My SEO Skills “Captivating Capiz”
November 9, 2008
Testing My SEO Skills “Captivating Capiz”
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SEO and Web design. Two birds of a feather…
November 8, 2008
SEO and Web design. Two birds of a feather…
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and web design go hand in hand. One cannot function without the other. Sure, you could have a well designed website on the internet and pay for traffic and advertising. However, no one will find you while doing a search. The benefits of being found on search engines will cut the cost of paid advertising. Yet everyday there are people who spend a great deal of money to have a site designed but wouldn’t think of having it optimized. Why, you ask? Is it the cost of SEO? Would they rather have a site created and avoid optimization to save a few bucks? If that’s the case…what do they plan to do with this site when it is completed? Advertise? SEO is advertising. It is actually one of the cheapest forms of advertising.
Were they planning on a PPC campaign? Buying banners? Page impressions on some click network? You’ve got to be kidding me. Why would anyone waste their money on those subpar options before optimizing their site?
In the long run, you’ll spend more on those “other” methods and receive fewer results than if you optimized and maintained the optimization of your site. Eventually, you’ll wind up needing SEO anyway. Trust me. If you ever wanted to know anything about something, chances are you’ve searched for it first. You didn’t click on a banner or surf into it from some click through network. Now don’t get me wrong, PPC is great if you know what you’re doing. SEO paired off with PPC is a great combination. You may even do some PPC while your SEO is taking place. Any method is better than none at all.
Unfortunately, there are those who do business on the web who think that spending money on web design alone will help attract business. You can have the most interesting storefront the world has ever seen, but if you open up for business in the middle of the desert, it won’t make any difference.
So, what do you do? Hire a designer and then an SEO guru? That would be costly. Hire a web designer that has some knowledge of SEO to optimize your site? Not a good idea. That may hurt more then help. Search engines today are smarter then they were just a few years ago. You don’t want to be penalized for bad SEO methods or worse yet have no real SEO results from contracting a web designer with only marginal experience in optimization.
You need to find a web design company that has an SEO expert on board. SEO is a full time job. You want to make sure the SEO guru is knowledgeable and is up to speed with the latest algorithms. Check their portfolio and ask to see their SEO achievements. You should be able to contact their present or former clients to see if they are happy with their results. Remember, anybody can spot a great looking website, but SEO experience should be researched before you hire anyone. Ask for a proven track record. If you can find the right combination of an SEO guru and experienced web designers in one package, you can save a lot of time and money while taking care of the first two things every business should: getting customers to your site and giving them a reason to stay.
For Affordable SEO, SEM, website design and more visit Joe’s site. To read the latest SEO News visit his blog.Or, read articles on SEO.
Simple, Timeless eBay Marketing Techniques
November 8, 2008
Simple, Timeless eBay Marketing Techniques
Whether you’re writing for eBay listings or writing SEO copy for your Web site or writing SEM copy for a Google AdWords landing page, there are always some very simple, timeless things you need to do. Here they are in stripped down, bare bones bullets:
* Write strong headlines
* Describe benefits before features
* Use specific subheads
* Write about the reader (not about yourself or your company)
This is simple marketing copywriting 101, but sometimes we need to remind ourselves what the basic techniques are.
Strong headlines contain delicious offers, benefits and intrigue. Benefits sell the dream before the hardware that produces the dream (and the relationship between the two). Specific subheads are key because many readers scan the page and follow subhead stories before diving into specific sections of your body text. Finally, when you use the word “you” and talk directly to and about the reader, you make better connections and sell more effectively. Nobody wants to hear about the genius behind the product. They want to know how it’s going to help them specifically.
SEO and Web design. Two birds of a feather…
November 8, 2008
SEO and Web design. Two birds of a feather…
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and web design go hand in hand. One cannot function without the other. Sure, you could have a well designed website on the internet and pay for traffic and advertising. However, no one will find you while doing a search. The benefits of being found on search engines will cut the cost of paid advertising. Yet everyday there are people who spend a great deal of money to have a site designed but wouldn’t think of having it optimized. Why, you ask? Is it the cost of SEO? Would they rather have a site created and avoid optimization to save a few bucks? If that’s the case…what do they plan to do with this site when it is completed? Advertise? SEO is advertising. It is actually one of the cheapest forms of advertising.
Were they planning on a PPC campaign? Buying banners? Page impressions on some click network? You’ve got to be kidding me. Why would anyone waste their money on those subpar options before optimizing their site?
In the long run, you’ll spend more on those “other” methods and receive fewer results than if you optimized and maintained the optimization of your site. Eventually, you’ll wind up needing SEO anyway. Trust me. If you ever wanted to know anything about something, chances are you’ve searched for it first. You didn’t click on a banner or surf into it from some click through network. Now don’t get me wrong, PPC is great if you know what you’re doing. SEO paired off with PPC is a great combination. You may even do some PPC while your SEO is taking place. Any method is better than none at all.
Unfortunately, there are those who do business on the web who think that spending money on web design alone will help attract business. You can have the most interesting storefront the world has ever seen, but if you open up for business in the middle of the desert, it won’t make any difference.
So, what do you do? Hire a designer and then an SEO guru? That would be costly. Hire a web designer that has some knowledge of SEO to optimize your site? Not a good idea. That may hurt more then help. Search engines today are smarter then they were just a few years ago. You don’t want to be penalized for bad SEO methods or worse yet have no real SEO results from contracting a web designer with only marginal experience in optimization.
You need to find a web design company that has an SEO expert on board. SEO is a full time job. You want to make sure the SEO guru is knowledgeable and is up to speed with the latest algorithms. Check their portfolio and ask to see their SEO achievements. You should be able to contact their present or former clients to see if they are happy with their results. Remember, anybody can spot a great looking website, but SEO experience should be researched before you hire anyone. Ask for a proven track record. If you can find the right combination of an SEO guru and experienced web designers in one package, you can save a lot of time and money while taking care of the first two things every business should: getting customers to your site and giving them a reason to stay.
For Affordable SEO, SEM, website design and more visit Joe’s site. To read the latest SEO News visit his blog.Or, read articles on SEO.
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Improve Rankings with Effective Web Site Copy
October 31, 2008
Improve Rankings with Effective Web Site Copy
An effective search engine optimization copywriter develops website content from scratch. SEO copywriters help to get high visibility for a website by striking upon the most appropriate keywords.
The creative text developer makes use of different words in order to create attractive quotes for the website describing the area of specialization, services provided by them, who are the potential viewers and more. The texts that the SEO copywriter develops are unique because these professionals are well aware of the profit motives of the company. If the content lacks attractiveness and marketing punch, it might affect your website adversely. High visibility is important to secure new business opportunities, and this is possible only when your website appears high enough on the list to be seen by potential customers, no matter how great your products and service actually are.
SEO copywriting is a process of writing keyword rich text that attracts more traffic to the site, thereby increasing the profit of the company. The content of website should be:
• Easy to read and understand
• Keyword rich
• Original content, avoiding repetition, grammatical errors and misspellings
• User friendly approach for high traffic
Search engines use complex algorithms to find, index, and display relevant information to web searchers. One of the primary ways in which search engines rank websites is by evaluating a website’s content and its importance to the search term.
The primary function of SEO copywriting is to produce content that will produce the required results when run through these search engine algorithms. In order to maintain a good ranking in different search engines, you must ensure that the content written is effective and resourceful. So it is always better to ask for the services of SEO copywriters who will help you to get high visibility. These professionals not only have extensive experience in writing the content for search engines, but also have the expertise to research what type of content will work best to place your website at the top of search results.
Internet users show a marked preference for concise writing with bullets and low word count. For a higher ranking, the website must also satisfy the search engines. SEO copywriters help your website get high visibility by meeting all the optimization requirements. There is no better option than professional SEO copywriting for websites to attract the right customers, enhance the popularity of the website and consequently make the business a huge success.
SEO dirty little tricks - The things people will do to put you out of business.
October 30, 2008
SEO dirty little tricks - The things people will do to put you out of business.
Ahhh…business it is wonderful, isn’t it? It’s great to know that you can make money online without owning a storefront. Despite the low overhead most online businesses enjoy, there are certainly down sides as well. Instead of competing with other providers of goods and services in your immediate area as storefront businesses must do, yo are competing with everyone in the world. Still, it can be easy to make money on the Internet but even easier to have your business sabotaged. Sabotaged, you ask? Yes, sabotaged! In fact, sabotage is not as uncommon as you might think. Before I go any further, I want to make sure you are aware that some of the things I will be discussing in this article are illegal. I shouldn’t have to tell you that anyone who uses this information to harm another could (and should) face prosecution. This article is intended to help web owners spot potential threats and stop them before they get out of hand. With that said, let’s move on.
Early in Google Adsense’s not so distant history, there was a substantial amount of pay-per-click fraud going on. People were paying others in 3rd world countries to click ads on their sites. That’s a common example of someone trying to make money in an underhanded and illegal way. Now read what underhanded and illegal things people will do to put their competition out of business.
Pay-Per-Click fraud can be devastating. It’s a sad world when your competitor will click on your ads to deplete your advertising budget. This is not as big problem as it once was, but you can bet your money it’s still going on. People have simply become more ruthless and put more effort into their trickery. What can you do about this? Not a whole lot. The best advice I have is to keep an eye on you PPC campaigns. If you average 30 hits a day and it all of a sudden you double or triple that a few days in a row, you may want to contact the search engine you advertise with and have them look into it. Better to be safe than sorry.
This type of sabotage isn’t unique. There are also those who will hurt you by helping you make money, at least initially. Earlier in this article I mentioned people having others click on their Adsence ads to make money. It now seems people are clicking on their competitor’s google ads in hopes of getting them in trouble with Google and other publishers. These people are more concerned with getting a competitor’s site banned than the fact that their actions could get someone locked up or paying a hefty fine. As I stated before with the PPC fraud, keep an eye on your Adsence ads. If they jump higher than normal, look into it. Check your stats to see if there are hits from the same IP and how long the IP stays on your site. If you suspect something, contact Google or which ever search engine you’re using to place ads on your site.
I have also come across some tactics that go beyond belief. People have actually created doorway sites for their competition and then reported the sites to Google. Oh yes, it has been done. How to stop that isn’t as easy as it sounds. Many hosting sites allow the domain owner to remain incognito. How do you prove you don’t own something?
I wanted to make readers aware of some of the negative things that are going on in the SE world. Chances are, none of these will happen to you. Still, knowledge is power, so use it to fine tune your senses. I don’t want to inspire paranoia, but there are a lot of bad elements on the net and caution is often necessary. If everyone conducted business with the golden rule in mind, we would never have to worry about these things. Unfortunately, the net is just like the real world…there are always going to be those that want to better their situation at the expense of someone else’s.
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How SEO and Blogs can help boost real estate sales
October 30, 2008
How SEO and Blogs can help boost real estate sales
Real estate is big business. You don’t need me to tell you that. Not just online but offline as well. Many real estate agencies fail to use the internet to their advantage. Yes, having a website is great. You can have people browse real estate listings whether buying a home or renting an apartment.
Real estate, being the billion dollar industry it is, can make for difficult optimization.
An real estate agency has a substantially better chance of increasing traffic to it’s website by focusing it’s optimization efforts toward a specific geographical area. Doing so will help in establishing a presence for the site while eliminating the need to compete based on standard industry termed content that will not differentiate an agency in Seattle from an agency in Sarasota. A Blog is a great way to begin achieving results by sticking to this formula. The idea behind a blog is that you can create optimized content that your potential clients would find useful and bring them to your site. Simply include your geographically related keywords and phrases in the content. For example, if you have listings for apartments in NY, a good posting for a blog might be “What to Look For When Apartment Shopping in NYC”. You could discuss what a renter should look for when shopping for an apartment in NYC, the necessity of renter’s insurance in NYC, overpriced areas of NYC, etc… Try to keep the content fresh and exciting to read. Remember, people may come across your article on a search engine and consequently decide to visit your site and use your services.
One thing that has made a blog a valuable tool is RSS. RSS lets us announce information as soon as it happens. How does this help a realtor? Let’s say I am hunting for an apartment. I may not have the time to check your site every few hours for updated listings. If I have a “my yahoo page”, my MSN or any RSS reader set up, I would know instantly that a listing became available.
With RSS, you won’t have to worry about spam filters blocking your emails. It’s beneficial for both clients and agents.
The point is to stand out from your competition. Setting up a blog and utilizing RSS are two ways that can be achieved. Also, try to set the goal of becoming the most valuable resource for information pertaining to your market and specialty.
Whether buying or renting, people need a place to turn to for information. If you can provide it, you will have plenty of traffic and clients to match.
Visit Joe’s site for Affordable SEO His podcast offers Information and tips on SEO For articles on SEOvisit his blog
