Archive for the ‘Bad SEO Practices’ Category
Friday, October 26th, 2007
I've worked in and around real estate search engine optimization / real estate SEO for several years now. But what never ceases to amaze me are the half-truths and outright lies that so many SEO companies use to rope in clients and take their money.
Unfortunately, there is no barrier to ...
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
A lot of real estate agents over-rely on reciprocal linking networks as a way to boost their search engine ranking. And they are later surprised when they incur a Google penalty that drops their search engine ranking down several pages. So I would like to dig deeper into the world ...
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
It is ridiculous, and even a bit sad, that you can conduct a Google search for the phrase real estate website +google penalty ... only to find more than a million web pages discussing the topic.
It's ridiculous, because optimizing a real estate website without being penalized by search engines is ...
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
I am always amazed that some website owners spend hours, weeks and months trying to optimize a website for phrases nobody is searching. I see it a lot in all kinds of industries (including real estate). But here's a prime example from a non-real estate company.
Example of an SEO Hunch: ...
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Stop me when this sounds familiar:
"We specialize in real estate search engine submission. We will submit your real estate website to hundreds of search engines for only $199."
About once a week, I get one of these spam emails claiming to offer real estate search engine submission services. Thankfully, I know ...
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