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Here are some numbers that shed light on the real benefits of rank position by taking a look at the percentage of clicks determined by where those sites show up in the search results. read more »
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Step by step of how to simply make a blidget for any blog. read more »
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A look at the return on investment of search engine optimization versus pay-per-click advertising. read more »
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Every once in a while I come across a new SEO tool that works exactly how I want it to and it opens the door for a lot of great ideas. This is one of those tools. read more »
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What are you doing to capture leads with your website right now? Your website should be using 3, 4, 5+ ways to capture leads and convert traffic into contacts and ultimately closes. Assuming you are generating some traffic through your site, these read more »
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Links are the highways that Google and other search engines travel in an effort to determine the popularity, relationship and relevancy of every page and website they come across. read more »
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Given that you have a solid SEO strategy, obtaining top search engine ranking is directly related to two factors: Age/Authority of the Domain and Search Term Competition.

Here are some basics for evaluating your online competition for a given sea read more »
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Take a look at the sample Google search engine results page (serp) below and see if you notice anything in particular. read more »
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First of all I wouldn't term it Black Hat vs. White Hat. I would look at it a bit more from an organic perspective of what works and what doesn't. Building backlinks, list gathering and newsletters, link farms, revolving content, hidden text and sp read more »
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In late February of this year we launched http://www.VancouverPowerSearch.com/ from scratch and now four and a half months later we are ranked on the front page of Google for the terms Vancouver Real Estate and Vancouver BC Real Estate. This is pret read more »
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A couple of days ago I mentioned SeoDigger as a way to evaluate what keywords your competition is ranked for, the amount of traffic those keywords are driving to their website and the ranking of those keywords on Google.

Now in order to be releva read more »
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The best way I have found to track the results of individual campaigns is to "Tag" links. Tagging links involves creating unique link ID's with embedded information for each online campaign you have. This will allow Google Analytics the ability to t read more »
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For me it's very simple. SEO gives the real estate agent or firm a truly unfair advantage over other agents or offices in their marketplace. Over the last six years as a real estate professional I have had a very profitable career in real estate and read more »
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How to go about capturing highly competitive search terms. Essentially the idea is about working on less competitive search terms which do convert traffic and are in the same space as the trophy term. Build full content rich sites for the sub-term read more »
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So you want to do SEO for a real estate website? What do you need?

Well generally speaking your going to need to be a bit of web designer, content developer, blogger, researcher, link builder and have a techie bent to name a few of the general jo read more »
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It's a bit of an adrenalin rush to think about dominating a major search term like "Seattle Real Estate" vs a smaller market like "Bellingham WA Real Estate". Having dominated both terms for about five years I can tell you.. read more »
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"Since around March 2004 Google has placed newly hosted "real estate" websites in what is commonly referred to as a Sandbox. Essentially if your keywords include a significant number of references to real estate including your title tags and descrip read more »
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