RETech South - The Dreaded SEO
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Participants:
- Kevin Boer Moderator, 3 Oceans Real Estate
- Jason Benesch. Real Estate Tomato
- Matt Dunlap, RealEspace.com
- Desiree Scales, Bella Web Design
- Bo Gilbert, MLC New Home Marketing
- Mary McKnight, RSS Pieces
Session:
Jason talks about how Google looks at content as a research paper. Layout of posts is very important.
Matt gives an overview of SEO as a part of your total web strategy.
Desiree says that being on the first page of Google gives you credibility. I have referred to it that the Gods of Google will create expertise.
Bo makes a point that if you have to focus on relevant terms. Instead of trying to get broad terms getting specific is more effective.
Mary talks statistics on Atlanta and how important it is to get high placement.
Is it helpful to have a blog for SEO purposes.
Mary talks about how blogs use a Content Management System creates the ability to create new content.
Woohoo Desiree, she understands that Google is a popularity contest! I always refer it to as high school.
Matt talks about making friends, it is so important. He is right.
Jason talks about the long tail. Winning the long tail for your niche is better for your business. He is right. Businesses will be built on long tail. Check out Chris Anderson who wrote the book on it.
Kevin shows a good chart on long tail sales.
He goes on to talk about how Atlanta Real Estate has 2.4 million results. He then shows a search on a specific home. It shows the benefit of a long tail search and how local disappears as Trulia has the top spot. Hmmm…
One SEO Tip
Desiree talks about how to focus on the tools that can take you to the next level. Excellent
Jason recommends posting to the Carnival of Real Estate. Also Delicio.us and Digg.
Bo talks about using title tags as the most important factor in SEO.
Mary talks about SEO backlinks and getting the right links that have page rank.
Matt talks about linking to partners. Says to forget about SEO and build relationships. EXCELLENT Advice!
Some of the information was excellent, but some of the discussion was off base. I am not an expert but have been studying this for 3 years and it SEO is fairly easy yet complicated and time consuming. The best advice I can give you is write specifically to a point and have some passion. Success will follow.
(Links will go up later to the site.)
Batteries dying. need to recharge.
My Representative is one of the infamous eight Republicans who voted to support this disgraceful legislation, Frank LoBiondo in South ...
When selling our homes, what takes place should be between the seller and the buyer. Not the government. ...
Yea I guess I would be mad or should I say disappointed if I missed the cut off date for ...
If you haven't read this bill I could easily see how one could support it. I mean the bill ...
Pain is gain. I really support this, and the change may be hard but it has to be done. ...
I can't tell you how many people I've talked to in the past week who are completely unaware that the ...
The liberal government policies have facilitated the expansion of the foreign involvement in the Real Estate Investment sector. 
We all know EPA has the most murders per 100k ever. 175 murders per 100k. 
I am confused...I closed on my house 1 April 2008, I did not get $7500 pay back or $8000 no ...
I am a person that has been qualified for a loan and really would love to see this enacted. ...
Comment by Desiree Scales on 28 March 2008:
I wanted to mention this yesterday, but real estate professionals usually are too busy to find the right links, find the keywords, create meta tags and everything else that goes into SEO. Therefore, finding the right partner in this arena is crucial. Pick your SEO team wisely and make sure they have a proven track record before spending any money with them. Hiring this work out frees up real estate pros to reap the benefits of the SEO work itself.
Pingback by The Dreaded SEO Recap from RETech South | Intelligent Website Widget Deployment Strategies on 28 March 2008:
[...] was a speaker on “The Dreaded SEO” panel. There was some good information put out from that panel, although there were some differentiating [...]
Comment by Matt@Realespace on 28 March 2008:
SEO and web strategy are 2 different things… Set up your site to be optimized, then focus on how to dominate your niche keywords