Vickis' Blog: SEO

So you've got your real estate license, found a Broker, got your business cards, and set up a website. You're all ready to start your career as a Realtor. You might be wondering what kind of business your website will be bringing you?

Providing you work hard on your SEO and get decent Search Engine generated traffic, or buy some PPC ads, you should get people visiting your website.

From my own experience of having three websites serving three different California communities, here are a few generalizations I can pass on to you:

• 95% of your leads will be buyers.

Why?    Because people that own a home and are looking to sell it already have an existing relationship with a Realtor. The Realtor helped them buy the house they live in…

I had an experience recently, which may explain why Google seems to be giving less value, in the last 6 months, to links from Articles distributed on article sites.

I have written about a 12 articles in the last three years and posted them to the major article sites. I'm a small time player compared to the prolific article-posters that are out there.

In September, I posted an article to ArticleBiz.com for the first time. Last week, I go back to check the article and all is well. But ArticleBiz also recommends some similar articles about real estate that I might be interested in reading.  There on the list of recommended articles is one with the same title as another article I had previously posted to GoArticles.com back in…