Comments on: How Google Reads Your Real Estate Blog

By: maegan

maegan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:44:38 +0000

For the spammers, As we all know, there was no such thing as perfect system. Even Google cannot avoid system glitch.
maegan@Realtors

By: Minnesota First Time Home Buyers

Minnesota First Time Home Buyers — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:04:32 +0000

You guys know your stuff. I also like to boil down the Google ranking system to simple terms, like sales volume: those with the most closed sales for the highest price, usually are the highest ranking agents in office. If you want to get to the top, the best way to go is start getting posts under your belt and focus on your topic in almost every article. Thanks for the info!

By: Fred333

Fred333 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:04:56 +0000

I don’t think there is a way to report that to google. I think it has something to do with the spiders.

By: Linda Slocum

Linda Slocum — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:26:31 +0000

I’m always a bit confused when those spammy blogs with nothing but a lot of nonsense keywords typed into run-on sentences get in the top natural search results for Google. Is this a Google goof, or can’t they tell the difference between a bunch of gobbledygook and proper sentence structure? Is there any way to report these irrelevant search results to Google so they’ll learn from this type of search error?

By: Marty Van Diest

Marty Van Diest — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:52:53 +0000

Good info Chris. I really don’t have a clue how SEO works. Jim told me to be patient when I first started, now I come up on the first page for most relevant searches in my area. I just talk about real estate in Alaska and it happens.

By: Mike Mueller

Mike Mueller — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:55:04 +0000

Great content Chris-
I was teaching a class yesterday to Agents who were interested in blogging.
The Search Engine ranking topic is always a hot key for them.
After a lengthy discussion on how search engines rank, my message to them is like yours. Just do your thing, add quality over quantity, and the results will come.
Mike Mueller

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:21:40 +0000

I was rhapsodizing about this very subject today at http://www.repdx.com. I haven’t spent much time on optimizing or analyzing, but I am pleased with the search rank that blogging consistently for 18 months or so has produced. I plan on a more organized approach to maintain that position. Thanks for the info.

By: ElizabethWeintraub

ElizabethWeintraub — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:56:06 +0000

This piece was of great interest to me since the bulk of visitors to my About.com site come from Google, from keyword searches. Sometimes I get lucky, no doubt about it, but much of the time it’s strategy, future projection (OK, and throwing rubber darts at my monitor) that lets me hit the jackpot.
For example, a year ago last spring, I searched for “short sales” on Google and found very little. Even a person with the brains of a monkey could figure out that short sales were rising and would become a popular keyword search. So I started writing about short sales. Today I am number one. My reign may be short-lived as tomorrow I could be number 11, victory is often short and sweet, but today I am enjoying that position. See: http://homebuying.about.com/od/4closureshortsales/a/shortsalebasics.htm.
Of course, the downside is I am bombarded by e-mail and phone calls from readers asking if I will do seminars for them — no, no, outstretched arms and crossed forefingers, let me hang some dry garlic around my neck, stay away — or else it’s sellers who insist I list their overpriced (potential) short-sale home in Elk Grove, a lovely community south of me with a glut of inventory and nothing moving.
But that’s the price of an E-ticket to this amusement park.