Hi everyone,
I would love to hear what you have to say...good, bad or indifferent! Bring it on!

www.AyersTeam.com

Thanks,
Rich

by the way, I use Diversified Solutions for my IDX..have their WP Plug in as well...

Have local community pages, subdivision listings, short sale stuff...investor, tenants and property mgmt pages too....We are a husband/wife brokerage that do a little bit of everything nowadays!

Rich

I used (tried to use) point2agent and found it very difficult. I'm extremely tech savvy, so I can't imagine how the average agent uses it.

I just didn't like the functionality and non-customization of P2A once I got into it...it looked too much like everyone else and I was getting no Google-juice from it.

Once I went to Wordpress, it was much better. I have people filling out my contact form a lot...I rank pretty high and hope to get higher...since this is only month 7 or so of the new site...It takes time, but I really like the style created by my WP Designer...I'd be happy to refer him if anyone likes the work.
He tries to make each site pretty individual and bases it off the Brian Gardner's StudioPress themes...

Rich

That's awesome... what are you doing to increase PR?

I try real hard to write content that is keyword loaded without sounding like I am doing that...It's tough, but works...I use the All in One SEO Pack to load my keywords and descriptions. I've been reading different SEO resources and really am trying to do it on my own. I use my designer to bounce ideas off of...he is a great resource..

Just a lot of time, effort and imagination, I guess :-)
Rich Ayers

I hope this comes out as constructive criticism. Just a couple of things (being nit-picky):

* Your meta description: AyersTeam.com is your source for Naperville, Oswego, and Plainfield Real Estate information and services. That's 105 characters. The consensus is that SE's read up to 150-160 characters, so make use of this prime space to tell the spiders what your page is about.
* Your meta title: Ayers Team Real Estate | Naperville, Oswego, and Plainfield Real Estate | Short Sale Expert | CDPE SFR. That's 102 characters. SE's stop reading after 70-80 characters (depending on who you talk to). Not only do the extra characters add nothing, but it turns out looking spammy.
* All your inner pages need meta titles.
* You have 17 headings on your homepage. Two of which are H1's.

On the other hand, your Diverse Solutions is kicking a**, you have over 900 pages indexed.

Best of luck.

This is too easy to prove wrong so stop believing everything you read. I have meta titles coming up #1 up to 120 characters deep. Most people waste this valuable opportunity including yourself.

Nice clean site, I like it.

You're right, we shouldn't believe everything we read (including what you wrote). We can either accept what are generally accepted as the fundamental principles of SEO or try to be the exception to the rule. I choose to believe what I read on SEOmoz and Matt Cutt's blog, you can certainly believe whatever you'd like. Best of luck.

Back to the topic, please.

Thanks everyone....And I will review my meta description and title to see how I can improve it!

Rich Ayers