Before you even worry about your SEO, fix your site. Design-wise, it's a complete mess. A website design is like the type of car you drive or the kind of tie you wear. It tells people what kind of guy you are, whether or not you know what you're doing.

you might want to consider organizing your toolbar. if you didn't know that will make all the difference. right now its all over the place and no one has time to read everything on your toolbar. organization is key. i wasn't converting sales until i organized mine.

[quote=RJacobsen]May I suggest you do everything within your power to relate your website to the term "Indiana Real Estate".
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Be more specific than that - I have a system I like to call "Collateral Keywords" that I will show you a few examples of below. You want to cater your keywords more in depth. For example:

Bloomingdale New Construction Homes For Sale
Poneto Indiana Homes For Sale
Rochester, IA Real Estate For Sale

I have several MLS areas covered and I can see thousands of 5+ word phrases coming each month per site.

...those words "for sale" are KILLER KEYWORDS!!! People will type that in combination with thousands of different cities and suburbs, subdivisions, even addresses they drive by. You can hit them all by targeting localized cities.

Don't get too ambitious, I've got the south covered, stay up there! :)

ANI

[quote=RJacobsen]
-Submitting to Directories (I have a list of RE directories, just IM me and I'll email it to you)
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Anyone have a current list of directories? I just did this one -- [url=http://www.real-estate-blogs.com/blogs/SUB/Illinois-Real-Estate-Blogs_90_1.html]Illinois Real Estate Blogs[/url] Looks like a good Pr3 backlink (not nofollow).

Do you think it's is worthwhile to get listed in directories for our real estate blogs?

[url=http://www.ERandolph.com]East Randolph Street[/url]
[url=http://www.NorthHarborDr.com]North Harbor Drive[/url]

Thanks,
Eric

When starting the backlink building process you can begin with little steps like blog commenting and using forums. You will then also want to start submitting your site to directories on the web. Once you get the hang of this you will want to start your article marketing. Whether you write the articles yourself or outsource them as long as they are unique they can be accepted to social marketing sites. These can all potentially provide you with some amazing backlinks. All you can really do then is repeat the steps all over again and pray the big Google likes you.

I agree, the best strategy to start when doing SEO, is go after more specific search terms. They are easier to rank for, and as you build up these terms, you can add to them. This will createa much better SEO portfolio for your site.

When I started I went to the neighborhood level, once I started ranking for my local neighborhoods, I started building links for the "my town" real estate, homes and homes for sale keywords. It took me about 5 months to get to page one, and I believe it's from starting out slow and working my way up.

Good Luck! :)

I follow the latest in SEO and I am hearing that Google will be looking closely at what else is on your web pages. They may be starting to rank certain webpages higher that have video, photos and even power point (.ppt) embedded within them.

Google wants to offer their users quality conent in addition to textual content.

(hint: start putting video and or more photos on your webpages.)

I have and when I get my next Google bot crawling, it will be interesting to see my new search engine positions.

Try something a little unconventional

People with computers at work do (may) not have speakers

so.... Talk is Cheap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_A2jY6-rRo

Add a comment Maybe suggest an idea in the comments section?

More unique and original content structured so that Google can see your themes (categories).

Plenty of incoming links from trusted and authority sites in your niche.