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SEO Tip – Spy on Your Competition with Google Alerts

SEO Tip – Spy on Your Competition with Google Alerts

You Can’t Keep up with the Jones’ if you don’t know what they are doing. Welcome back to the SEO Tips series, I’m glad you’ve stuck with me and hope you have learned a thing or two to help your Web site perform better.  This will be the last tip in this series for a while.  Next week we’ll do ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/12/12  | 23 Comments Real Estate

SEO Tip – Use Google for Keyword Research

SEO Tip – Use Google for Keyword Research

Use some of Google’s muscle for keyword research Welcome back, hope you had a safe and enjoyable holiday break.  My wife and I used our time to put in new kitchen counters and tile….but, that’s a whole other post.  Let’s get to today’s SEO Tip. Keyword research can be both intimidating and time consuming, but why should YOU do all ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/12/05  | 21 Comments How to

SEO Tip – Don’t Forget to Optimize Your Interior Pages

SEO Tip – Don’t Forget to Optimize Your Interior Pages

You need more than just curb appeal to make Google happy Welcome back, time for another SEO Tip. Is your Web site like a Hollywood back-lot?  All snazzy looking up front, but nothing on the inside?  More importantly, does Google think that’s what it is?  I’ve hinted at this a couple times before, but it is very important that you ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/11/21  | 17 Comments

SEO Tip – Create a Sitemap For Your Real Estate Web Site

SEO Tip – Create a Sitemap For Your Real Estate Web Site

Sitemaps help make your 100 acres easier to navigate Welcome back.  My series of SEO Tips is winding down; I hope you have gotten a lot out of them.  If you have questions about this, the earlier tips or something I have yet to cover, please don’t hesitate to ask. How could Christopher Robin ever find Pooh or Tigger’s place ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/11/14  | 14 Comments

SEO Tip – Optimize Your Images for Better Rankings

SEO Tip – Optimize Your Images for Better Rankings

It’s Saturday morning, so you know what that means – time for another SEO Tip.  This week’s tip is so simple some of you may wonder if it’s even true, others may wonder why they haven’t been doing it already. You have all been told for years that you must add lots and lots of images to your sites.  You’ve ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/11/07  | 24 Comments

Search Engine Optimization Tip – Word Separators

Search Engine Optimization Tip – Word Separators

Hyphens and underscores and pipes – OH MY! Welcome back, hope you are learning lots from my series of SEO Tips.  This week we’ll take a look at some common methods of separating words in your URLs and page titles, and which should provide you the best results in the search engine result pages (SERPs). Separators in URLs Depending on ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/10/31  | 26 Comments

SEO Tip – Discovering backlinks

SEO Tip – Discovering backlinks

Welcome back, hope you are finding this SEO tips series helpful.  A few weeks ago we discussed how to properly link to your site and the documents in it. Today, we’ll learn how to discover what other sites link to you, what pages they link to, and what words they use to do it. You may recall from my SEO ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/10/24  | 36 Comments

SEO Tip – Canonicalization

SEO Tip – Canonicalization

In last week’s SEO Tip about linking to the home page correctly, I promised to tell you how to do “canonicalization” (just don’t ask me to pronounce it).  As a quick refresher, canonicalization is a fancy word that means to direct traffic from multiple, possibly undesirable addresses, to a single preferred address. The most common use for this is for ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/10/10  | 20 Comments

SEO Tip – Linking to Your Home Correctly

SEO Tip – Linking to Your Home Correctly

Welcome to another in my series of SEO Tips.  The last few weeks have been pretty geeky, covering META Tags and other mysterious things.  Today is an easy one; Link to your Home page correctly. I know – that’s TOO EASY to even count as a tip, right? Ha! Guess again bucko! We have to remember that even though Google ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/10/03  | 26 Comments How to

SEO Tip – META Descriptions

SEO Tip – META Descriptions

Time for another edition of the SEO Tips series, today we will be discussing META Descriptions. If you are not familiar with META Tags, you really should read SEO Tips – Meta Tags before you continue. META descriptions are short (less than 160 characters) pieces of text that are used to briefly describe the content of a page.  This text ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/09/26  | 14 Comments How to

SEO Tip – Using the Title Tag

SEO Tip – Using the Title Tag

We continue the SEO Tips series today with a discussion on the HTML “Title” tag.  If you have read much about SEO, you probably already know that this little piece of code is one of the most important parts of your pages.  The recent SEO Ranking Factors survey named keyword use in titles tags as the second most important thing ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/09/19  | 15 Comments How to

SEO Tip – META tags

SEO Tip – META tags

This article is the first of several in series of SEO Tips. My goal is to provide you with short, easy to understand, nuggets of SEO that you can implement on your own sites. Over time you should see improvement in your rankings as we cover more material. The first three topics I’ll cover are the Title, Description and Keywords ...

Jack Leblond | 2009/09/12  | 30 Comments How to