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Step 2. How to optimize your real estate website for the search engines aka: SEO
This page will show you the major steps required to help you optimize your real estate website for the major search engines, such as google, msn, yahoo and more, this is also known as Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
I will outline the steps below and then you will notice there is a link for some of the steps which will lead you to a more detailed discussion of each section. The major requirements to optimize your site for the search engines are:
- You must know what the definition of search engine optimization is for your real estate website, Webopedia has a definition of SEO: "Short for search engine optimization, the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a Web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine. The higher a Web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that that site will be visited by a user. It is common practice for Internet users to not click through pages and pages of search results, so where a site ranks in a search is essential for directing more traffic toward the site. "
- The use of Domain names for real estate websites in your area
- What hosting company should you choose to host your real estate website?
- How important is the title tag in real estate search engine optimization?
- You have heard of Meta tag Description and Meta Keyword Tags, what are they and are they important
- What are ALT Tags are and what role they play in real estate SEO
- What about the content and copy writing on each and every page of your site, how important is this for your real estate search engine optimization? See Keyword selection
- How to effectively utilize your Site Map and should you be using google site maps for your real estate web site and SEO?
- You have likely heard of Flash pages, are they useful and do they help in search engine optimization of your real estate website?
- Should you use dynamic pages on your site?
- You will need to decide what program you should use to design and maintain your real estate website. You can choose to use the built in web authoring tool that came with Microsoft, called Frontpage, or you can use a third party software program to author your website
- What types of file formats are best for your real estate website SEO?
- Framed sites & pages should you use them?
- The use of JavaScript and how it can influence your website SEO
- What to avoid to not get penalized in SEO
- Should you do it on your own or get professional SEO help for your real estate website?
- http://www.searchengineguide.com/optimization.html
There is much more information to come, I have just started to build these pages.
These are the major steps that will show you how to build a real estate website.
Then you will find all you need to know at this "agents only" page. You have found the first page of many that will teach you all the details of what is required to
- How to build a real estate website
- How to optimize your real estate website for the search engines
- How to submit your real estate website to the major search engines
- What types of effective advertising and promotion you can do to for your real estate website
- How to improve your real estate website ranking with google
- How Google Measures link popularity
I am very excited about this brand new section on my website. My intention is to share with you ideas and information that I have learned during the past 10 years developing this and other websites on the internet. Since this is a new section on my site, there will be some growing pains and new pages will be added regularly, so please check back often or sign up to my real estate website newsletter so you don't miss any of the new sections that I plan on adding to these pages over the next days, weeks and months.
Sit back and relax and enjoy reading the information that I have provided in this section of my site. It's just one more benefit for continuing to visit this real estate website.
To your success!
Mark
I hope you enjoy reading this and the many other sections that are contained within this section of my site. As always, this information is free and available to anyone that wants to read and learn about real estate website optimization strategies. Would you like to sign up to my real estate agent website newsletter?
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