Search Engine Positioning - Which Real Estate Keywords?

THE LEADERS POST - Issue #41 - May 4, 2000
from Results-net.com
By: Doug Towes, Editor

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Contents
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- Search Engine Positioning - which keywords?
- Find everything you need to be successful on the net
- New Reciprocal Links Forum
- New Search Engines Forum
- Tip Of The Day
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Net Success
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Unless you have millions of dollars to spend on marketing -
search engine positioning, as we all know, is the number one
factor in determining the success or failure of a web site.
Good positioning for what keywords? Recently, companies who
provide web sites and/or search engine submission services have
been using examples of their search engine successes in their
promotional material in efforts to attract new business.
More often than not the keywords they use for their
demonstrations are not the same keywords a prospective visitor
to your web site would enter into the search engines. What
appears on the surface to be good search engine positioning is
really not.
What keywords do people use when searching the internet?
Goto.com, one of the top 10 search engines, has an excellent
free tool available that will tell you! Visit
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
and choose the first item - "1. Search Term Suggestion List".
Try the various keywords that you think people might use to find
your site. You may be surprised at what you find.
For real estate the most popular keywords used are always the
city followed by the words "real estate" - for example, for
people searching for real estate in Orlando FL., the most
popular keyword used by internet searchers is "orlando real
estate" (almost always in lower case as well).
If you switch the words around to "real estate orlando" you
will find that only about one tenth as many searches are
performed using those keywords! The same holds true for just
about any other keyword combination you can think of - including
any combination using the word "realtor".
So, if a web designer or submission company shows you a report
of search engine positions for a long list of keywords - it may
look impressive at first glance. But the truth is that rankings
for most of the keywords used in the demonstration are non -
competitive and generate little traffic. If the rankings are not
great for "yourcity real estate", it is a waste of money.
A good example of a proven effective web presence system for
real estate agents can be found at Realtor Web Sites
The House and Home Real Estate Page web presence system come as
a turnkey package and is continuously updated to conform to the
changing criteria required by search engines - so you can sleep
nights and concentrate on selling real estate! Check it out at
http://www.rncinternet.com/real_estate.html and also have a look at how the
sites rank in search engines -
http://www.rncinternet.com/searchenginepositions2.html
* Only ONE agent per market area is eligible for this total web
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Hurry! Before someone else takes this opportunity in your area!
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Visit The House and Home Bakersfield Real Estate Page
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What works for you? Your suggestions and submissions are
gratefully accepted, and if used you will receive credit along
with a link to your web site or (e mail address if you don't
have a web site yet.)
Send submissions to
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Happenings At Results-net.com
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There are a couple of brand new forums at the Agents Online
Real Estate Webmasters Forums at
Visit the new "Reciprocal Link Exchange Forum" where you can
meet other web site owners interested in exchanging links. What
a great way to boost your traffic and improve you search engine
popularity!
Also, visit the new "Live Search Engines News Feed And
Discussion Forum" where you will find the latest search engine
news and can discuss the ins and outs of search engines with
other members.
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Visit The House and Home Hutchinson Kansas Real Estate Page
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Members of the House and Home Real Estate Page Program are
reminded to check their private forum at
http://www.house-and-home.net for information, search
engine strategies, and add-ons to their site. There is some
important new information in the forum regarding linking your
site for optimum search engine positioning.
Members have to register first before they can access the
forum. Once registered send me an email and I will "authorize"
you so you can access the private forum.
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Tip Of The Day
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn;
it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a
frown on the right person's brow. - Charles Brower
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