From the monthly archives: January 2010
Looking for Orange County photography? You can see more of my photographic portfolio by visiting my main OC Photography website: Orange County Photography
I Promise You Page One On Google! (but for what terms?)
If one claim can be attributed to every SEO related business from the SEM Professionals Firm to the Jack-of-all-web-designers next door, it’s “I can get you on page one”. Well, if you wait five minutes, I can show you my last blog post or twitter post or Activerain post on page one too.
LOOK! I JUST DID IT!!! You’re ON PAGE ONE! just like my Activerain blog post four hours ago, The Last Temptation of Social Networking Yep, there it is on page one! Even position one when I last checked.
There, I delivered on my promise. You’re on page one of Google.
Pay me.
Sigh…
What’s In A Search? Keywords Count, A Lot.
I recently read a proposed “list of keywords” in an SEO plan for an agent. It was about forty search terms long and nine out of ten were completely valueless had no competitors in the business because they were terms only an imbibcel few people would type into Google.
You can determine popularity and competition for any term right away by using the free keyword tool at the Google website for that. Have a look: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Examine the comparison of two terms that would seem synonomous, especially to someone accustomed to the industry, yet one was searched more than the other by a 37/1 ratio in November, 2009. Despite the vast difference in the use of the two terms, advertiser competition was closely similar for the lesser term. Are all real estate agents checking this tool? If you’re going to have to fight the same competition for a high ranking, you may as well tough it out for the most searched term, right? It doesn’t take much of an SEO expert to make that choice.
Dave Keys provides SEO consulting and services for real estate agents in Orange County and Riverside County CA.
