To be successful doing your own real estate seo work you don't have to be a computer genius. To succeed you just have to know the right things to do.
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When you start down the road of doing your own SEO work, you have visions of typing that most competitive keyword, clicking the "Search" button, and seeing your website and number 1. After a few days (maybe even a week) of work you wonder why you haven't seen any progress.
We all want to see our efforts pay off with sky high rankings in just a short amount of time. It is possible, but it does take a bit longer than a few days. In just 90 days (and often less) you can see results with your real estate SEO efforts. The best step to improve your rankings is to have the right plan going forward.
Your plan to dominate the search engines doesn't have to be long and it doesn't have to be a "technical" plan either. It really involves understanding some of the biggest items that you can tackle that influence the search engines.
Here are a 3 fundamental items that you can put together as part of your plan to improve search engine rankings for your real estate website.
Website Content - The content that makes up your website is one of the biggest factors that will determine your rankings. Quality website content that is focused on your market will allow the search engines to "see" what your website is all about. Make sure to be thorough and share as much information about the real estate market in your area as possible. Your plan should cover what content you will write each week so you consistently make updates to your website.
Inbound Links - Getting inbound links will help your website soar in the results. Now this doesn't mean you go out and start e-mailing people "I will link to you if you link to me", but rather find websites that can see the value in your content and let them know you exist. Make your plan easy and identify a new website that you will e-mail each week or month to let them know that you have quality content that can provide value to their visitors.
Sitemaps and Search Engines - Creating an XML sitemap and an HTML sitemap are essential to helping the search engines learn more about your website. Once those are created you also need to let the search engines know that you created them which means submitting them to Yahoo Site Explorer and Google Webmaster Tools. Don't forget that as you add new content you will also need to update your sitemap, but it will be easy once you get it done the first time.
Just tackling these 3 items will give you a great start for your real estate SEO efforts and will help you to improve your search engine rankings quickly. The most important aspect is to keep on creating quality content for your visitors!
Improving your search engine rankings takes time, but is possible as long as you stick with your plan. Your plan will probably have more than 3 big items on it, but don't make your plan too complicated as it needs to be simple so you can stick with it.
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