[url=http://www.augustarealestategroup.com]Augusta Real Estate Group[/url]

[url=http://www.augustarealestateinvesting.com]Augusta real estate investing[/url]

I just put a little bit of content on each to start having a web presence at these domain names.. Is there something that I can improve to help my SEO?

TIA

Boy, that is such an open question, it's hard to know where to start. Why don't you tell us more about what you are doing, what you've done so far to get traffic, and what your goals are with these sites. Then maybe some of us may be able to give you same ideas.

Chris

Noted.

I set up the investing site about 2-3 months ago and the AREG website about 1 month ago..

I do not need the sites for a 1-2 years but I thought I would get a head start on the SEO.

I have just built up some forum signatures, and did the best I could as far as meta tags and titles.

also submitted both domains to google and yahoo.

Be careful...if you start receiving any leads from the sites you really can't do much if you're not yet licensed...it's a 3rd degree felony to practice real estate without a license...

In the meantime, if you're looking for long-term SEO benefits - content is king. Write write write write write.

I am a licensed in Columbia, SC and can easily refer out any leads I get... legally. Especially if I am trying to find investors to buy my properties, etc.

A couple of thing you can do easily and quickly. First setup your signature and include links to the site. Second, post in forums and blogs (with links to your site). Third, setup a sitemap for the search engine. Last, keep updating your contact. Daily is best, but weekly will help. When you update your contact, resubmit your sitemap to Google.

PS: When you post to the blog or forum, make good comments that add to the discuss. DO NOT SPAM.

If you are conducting SEO (search engine optimization) work on a website, internal factors are aspects that you have complete control over. SEO factors of this type include…
Keywords: Both keyword density in the text and words listed in the META keyword tags are internal factors which help determine which search queries will cause pages to appear in results. They should be words people actually search for frequently.

Redundancy: If different pages on a website are too similar to each other, they might receive a poorer ranking in search results. This also sometimes applies to duplicate content it shares with other websites, such as press releases which have appeared elsewhere.

Navigation: Search engine “robots” or “spiders” should be able to navigate the website and index each page. Animated javascript menus may look nice, but are often impossible for “spiders” to access. A text based Site Map is useful for providing easy navigation to all internal pages.

Updates: Adding new information or updating existing data on a webpage is another internal factor, which has the potential to boost its rankings. It also makes the page more likely to be added to directories and/or linked to by other websites, providing additional SEO benefits.

Description: The description META tag determines (with some exceptions) what appears below the title in search results, as well as some website directories. This is not as essential as some of the other internal SEO factors, but should at least be added to the major pages of a site.

Titles: To be suited for SEO purposes, the webpage titles should be appealing for searchers to click on, and clearly differentiate each page. Among other factors you should consider the title’s length; part may be cut off in search results if it is too long.

Links: It can be detrimental for SEO efforts to add internal links to websites which have been removed/downgraded in search results for using objectionable promotion techniques (like “doorway pages”), or to openly sell links to other sites (unless the “nofollow” tag/attribute is used).

URLs: Combined with other internal factors, putting relevant keywords in the webpage file names and/or domain name can be helpful in SEO work. Search engines cannot recognize unseparated words; dashes are generally recommended more than underscores for separating multiple words in a URL.

Correctly and thoroughly optimizing internal SEO factors will potentially help improve the external factors affecting a website as well, such as the number of inbound links.

All great ideas! The onsite optimization is especially important if you want to rank well on Yahoo. Yahoo will look at on site factors and place your web page based on this more often then Google. Google will look more at the backlinks and reputation your site is receiving to place your website.

Inspector Dave that is a great list. Personally, updating old content is where I feel many webmasters fall short in the SEO world.

Thanks for all the help.. I recently just got page rank (1) on both sites.

Rock on!