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#190320 - 01/01/08 10:42 PM
Re: How to boost your ranking on google
[Re: Livechatrealtor]
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Your site is pretty new, isn't it? At least the fact that there is no history at Alexa indicates that it is new. That is most of your problem. For sites targeting competitive commercial keywords - and that includes most real estate keywords - it can take 9 months to a year (even longer for real competitive terms) before a site begins to rank well in Google. It is their way of combating spam and recruiting Adwords customers. All you can do is continue to acquire good links pointing at your site and have patience 
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#193570 - 01/14/08 01:20 PM
Re: How to boost your ranking on google
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Doug is definitely right. While real estate keywords are extremely difficult to get in the top of the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages), the best way to do this is to target detailed (also known as 'long tail') keywords. For example, you don't want to target the keyword 'real estate', for all the power players with the large budgets are at the top of the SERPs. Instead, go for keywords like 'Indiana Real Estate' or even 'South Bend Indiana Real Estate'. Granted, since these keywords are very long tail, they won't get too much traffic, but for the traffic you do get, you will have a high probability of reaching the top of the search engine rankings.
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#194979 - 01/19/08 10:17 AM
Re: How to boost your ranking on google
[Re: Alan Murray]
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Why not ad a few video's Film the river. Video thru your sunroof thru downtown, Ad a video introduction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEnPEG1zCK4&feature=relatedWhen they are smiling when they call you, the sale is already made.
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#202327 - 02/12/08 06:46 PM
Re: How to boost your ranking on google
[Re: DavidPylyp]
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how much success have you had with youtube?
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#202405 - 02/12/08 10:11 PM
Re: How to boost your ranking on google
[Re: Heyen Realty]
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livechatrealtor. I would shorten your title, also I am not a big fan of the colar scheme, but that is just me.
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#202667 - 02/13/08 03:48 PM
Re: How to boost your ranking on google
[Re: Perky_REALTOR]
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Gotta agree with Perky on this one. That pink and teal practically hurts the eyeballs.
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#202937 - 02/14/08 01:28 PM
Re: How to boost your ranking on google
[Re: RJacobsen]
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May I suggest you do everything within your power to relate your website to the term "Indiana Real Estate".
You can start by: -Submitting to Directories (I have a list of RE directories, just IM me and I'll email it to you) -Writing articles about Indiana real estate and publishing them on your website. -Write and publishing different RE articles to directories about Indiana real estate (linking to your website) -Acquiring links (don't forget your anchor--"Indiana real estate"!) -Then acquire some more links!! I would actually try to optimize for South Bend Indiana Real Estate, unless you work across the entire state. I suppose you could set up a referral network and try to get referral fees for people looking in other parts of the state, but if you work in South Bend, I would try to rank for that term following all of the suggestions above!
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#203169 - 02/15/08 09:01 AM
Re: How to boost your ranking on google
[Re: deepsea]
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Site design aside, I concur with the long tail idea: Indiana Real Estate will get you many visitors (only if you succeed - which you probably won't), but few leads.
Some other ideas: South Bend IN Real Estate South Bend Indiana Real Estate South Bend Indiana Homes for Sale South Bend Indiana Houses
Or any other combination. You'll find you'll rank pretty quickly if you change it up to any of those and focus on that.
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This Google Custom search may do a better job of searching the forums for some keywords than the old forum search does. The results do not include threads from the Asset Managers Forum however. To search that forum you will need to be actually in the Asset Managers Forum and you will need to use the old forum search below.
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