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Pat

Posted by Pat Moore, CSN, E-Pro (Prudential Select Properties) about 1 year ago

OK Brian, I'll bite: www.LookForHomesOnline.com

Cheers,

Posted by David Swierczynski, Lake County, IL Realtor (Century 21 Hometown) about 1 year ago

Okay. I will work on both of them.

Give me a few.

Posted by Brian Blake (My-MLSOnline.com Real Estate IDX) about 1 year ago

OK Brian, so I wasn't first. But if you're feeling generous or want to tell me more about what you have, the website is http://www.stevehoffacker.com and the blog is http://www.homesalesinsights.com.

Posted by Steve Hoffacker - Real Estate Sales & Marketing Consulting and Strategies (Hoffacker Associates LLC) about 1 year ago

Here is Pat's Optimization advise from webceo

For keyword St. Louis Real Estate

A. General page properties

Page URL

1. Your keyword isn't present in the URL! Our research of hundreds of search engines top-lists shows that keyword presence in the URL is crucial for achieving high rankings in a search engine's results list. By placing keywords in your domain name, you gain a serious advantage with search engines. If your URL points to an already established and high-ranked web page, we do not recommend altering it. However, this factor is worth considering when you create new pages / sites. Most major search engines favor websites with keywords in their URL; however, remember to use them sensibly and not to abuse them. When optimizing a page for a key phrase, separate keywords in the URL with a hyphen (domain/web-site.html) or an underscore (domain/web_site.html), but do not write them as one word. Otherwise, search engines will understand it as a single word (even if the search engine result highlights this keyword in bold), and your work on URL optimization will be wasted.

B. Main on-the-page factors influencing your ranking

1. <HEAD> area:

<TITLE> tag

1. Your keyword is not present in the Title tag! Your keyword should appear at least once in the Title tag, but it doesn't appear at all. Put the keyword into your Title tag or you'll be unlikely to rank high.

META Keywords

1. Your keyword is not present in the Meta Keywords tag! Your keyword should appear at least 1 time in this tag, but it doesn't appear at all.

2. Your keyword is not as close to the beginning of the Meta Keywords tag as it should be! Your keyword's prominence is only 0.0% while it should be at least 75%. Move your keyword closer to the beginning of Meta Keywords to emphasize its importance.

3. Your keyword weight in the META Keywords is too low! When it comes to this tag, the higher the keyword weight, the better. Meanwhile, on your page, keyword weight doesn't come to more than 0.0%. Try to remove the least informative and least relevant keywords, thus increasing keyword weight.

2. <BODY> area:

Visible text

1. None of your keywords are in bold! The fact that you put a certain keyword or phrase in bold tells the search engine that you place an emphasis on it. Naturally it considers these words or phrases to be more important than those in regular font. We recommend that you put your key phrase in bold one or more times.

2. Your keyword is too far away from the beginning of this page! Your keyword's prominence is only 0.0% while it should be at least 57%. If possible, move your keyword closer to the beginning of your page; this will greatly improve overall prominence.

3. Your keyword doesn't have enough weight on your page! Your keyword should constitute at least 2 percent, while with your page it is only 0.0%. Increase the keyword weight so its value ranges within the boundaries of 2-10 percent. Also keep in mind the possibility of using different forms of your keywords. While ranking, search engines consider not only direct matches of keywords, but also their various alterations. For instance, for the query "web hosting," search engines will take into account the occurrences of such words as "host", "hosting", "webhosts" etc. on your pages. In addition, the modification of your keyword makes the content more user-friendly, so your page doesn't look like a readability puzzle stuffed with one and the same keyphrase. And remember: a good technique for writing page copy is to write naturally.

4. Your keyword is not present at the beginning of this page! Early appearance of your keyword shows its importance in the context of the entire page because it is mentioned at the very beginning We recommend that keywords be placed in the first 50 words in the visible text of this page.

5. Your keyword is not present at the end of your page! Your page will be more relevant if your keyword appears at the end of the visible text. To achieve this, put your keyword in the last 50 words of your copy.

First heading on the page (H1-H6)

1. Your page either has no <H1> headings, or has no text in the first heading on the page! It is crucial that your keyword appears in one of these headings. We also recommend that you put an <H1> heading as close to the beginning of your page as possible. Search engines traditionally consider text in the headings to be essential, and having your keyword there will positively influence your website's overall optimality.

Text in links including ALTs

1. Your keyword rarely appears in the ALT / TITLE attributes of text and graphical links on this page! Your keyword should appear at least once in text links, but it doesn't appear at all. We recommend that it be used in such links up to 6 times. You can easily adjust this number with your favorite HTML editor.

ALT image attributes

1. Your keyword is not present in the first 3 ALT image attributes on your page (or there are no ALT attributes at all)! If you have images on your page, put the keyword in one of these ALTs as they are considered more important than the rest of the ALTs on your page. Even though ALT tags haven't gained much importance with Google, the Yahoo! and Windows Live search engines pay much more attention to them.

2. Your keyword frequency in ALT image attributes is too low! Your keyword should appear 1 to 3 times in ALTs on this page while it is found 0 time(s). You can easily adjust this number with your favorite HTML editor.

Posted by Brian Blake (My-MLSOnline.com Real Estate IDX) about 1 year ago

Search engine: General optimization

Keyword: Gurnee Real Estate

Jump to keywords: Gurnee Real Estate

1. Optimization advice

A. General page properties

Page URL

1. Your keyword isn't present in the URL! Our research of hundreds of search engines top-lists shows that keyword presence in the URL is crucial for achieving high rankings in a search engine's results list. By placing keywords in your domain name, you gain a serious advantage with search engines. If your URL points to an already established and high-ranked web page, we do not recommend altering it. However, this factor is worth considering when you create new pages / sites. Most major search engines favor websites with keywords in their URL; however, remember to use them sensibly and not to abuse them. When optimizing a page for a key phrase, separate keywords in the URL with a hyphen (domain/web-site.html) or an underscore (domain/web_site.html), but do not write them as one word. Otherwise, search engines will understand it as a single word (even if the search engine result highlights this keyword in bold), and your work on URL optimization will be wasted.

B. Main on-the-page factors influencing your ranking

1. <HEAD> area:

<TITLE> tag

1. Your Title tag is too long! At the moment it is 380 characters long. If its length is more than 275 characters, the extra characters will be cut and your listings may not look attractive in search engine results.

2. Your Title tag has too many words! We recommend that your Title have 3 to 28 words instead of 48 words, which it has now. If possible, remove some less important words from your Title to meet the above limit and enjoy higher rankings.

3. Your Title tag has stop words! Words such as "and, on, a, the, for, to, about, are, that, were, by, of" and other auxiliary words are too common and search engines don't take them into consideration. By using a stop word in your Title tag, you potentially damage your rankings. A rule of thumb: the less stop words you use in your Title tag, the better.

4. Your keyword is not present in the Title tag! Your keyword should appear at least once in the Title tag, but it doesn't appear at all. Put the keyword into your Title tag or you'll be unlikely to rank high.

META Keywords

1. Your keyword is not as close to the beginning of the Meta Keywords tag as it should be! Your keyword's prominence is only 0.0% while it should be at least 75%. Move your keyword closer to the beginning of Meta Keywords to emphasize its importance.

2. Your keyword weight in the META Keywords is too low! When it comes to this tag, the higher the keyword weight, the better. Meanwhile, on your page, keyword weight doesn't come to more than 3.9%. Try to remove the least informative and least relevant keywords, thus increasing keyword weight.

META Robots

1. You have the 'NOARCHIVE' value set in your META Robots! This value disallows search engines to cache your page. This tag is sometimes used by spammers, who are afraid to be caught red-handed. We recommend that you allow search engines to archive your pages. You can instantly remove 'NOARCHIVE' with your favorite HTML editor.

2. <BODY> area:

Visible text

1. None of your keywords are in bold! The fact that you put a certain keyword or phrase in bold tells the search engine that you place an emphasis on it. Naturally it considers these words or phrases to be more important than those in regular font. We recommend that you put your key phrase in bold one or more times.

2. Your keyword is too far away from the beginning of this page! Your keyword's prominence is only 0.0% while it should be at least 57%. If possible, move your keyword closer to the beginning of your page; this will greatly improve overall prominence.

3. Your keyword doesn't have enough weight on your page! Your keyword should constitute at least 2 percent, while with your page it is only 0.0%. Increase the keyword weight so its value ranges within the boundaries of 2-10 percent. Also keep in mind the possibility of using different forms of your keywords. While ranking, search engines consider not only direct matches of keywords, but also their various alterations. For instance, for the query "web hosting," search engines will take into account the occurrences of such words as "host", "hosting", "webhosts" etc. on your pages. In addition, the modification of your keyword makes the content more user-friendly, so your page doesn't look like a readability puzzle stuffed with one and the same keyphrase. And remember: a good technique for writing page copy is to write naturally.

4. Your keyword is not present at the beginning of this page! Early appearance of your keyword shows its importance in the context of the entire page because it is mentioned at the very beginning We recommend that keywords be placed in the first 50 words in the visible text of this page.

5. Your keyword is not present at the end of your page! Your page will be more relevant if your keyword appears at the end of the visible text. To achieve this, put your keyword in the last 50 words of your copy.

Text in links including ALTs

1. Your keyword rarely appears in the ALT / TITLE attributes of text and graphical links on this page! Your keyword should appear at least once in text links, but it doesn't appear at all. We recommend that it be used in such links up to 6 times. You can easily adjust this number with your favorite HTML editor.

ALT image attributes

1. Your keyword is not present in the first 3 ALT image attributes on your page (or there are no ALT attributes at all)! If you have images on your page, put the keyword in one of these ALTs as they are considered more important than the rest of the ALTs on your page. Even though ALT tags haven't gained much importance with Google, the Yahoo! and Windows Live search engines pay much more attention to them.

2. Your keyword frequency in ALT image attributes is too low! Your keyword should appear 1 to 3 times in ALTs on this page while it is found 0 time(s). You can easily adjust this number with your favorite HTML editor.

Posted by Brian Blake (My-MLSOnline.com Real Estate IDX) about 1 year ago

Steve your keywords need separated by a comma or they read as one long keyword and that messes up the search engines.

Put commas in between them when you enter them in.

Search engine: General optimization

Keyword: sale marketing consulting home builders custom builders consultant

Jump to keywords: sale marketing consulting home builders custom builders consultant

Quick access to:

1. Optimization advice
2. Advanced analysis
A. General page properties
B. On-the-page factors influencing your ranking

1. Optimization advice

A. General page properties

Page URL

1. Your keyword isn't present in the URL! Our research of hundreds of search engines top-lists shows that keyword presence in the URL is crucial for achieving high rankings in a search engine's results list. By placing keywords in your domain name, you gain a serious advantage with search engines. If your URL points to an already established and high-ranked web page, we do not recommend altering it. However, this factor is worth considering when you create new pages / sites. Most major search engines favor websites with keywords in their URL; however, remember to use them sensibly and not to abuse them. When optimizing a page for a key phrase, separate keywords in the URL with a hyphen (domain/web-site.html) or an underscore (domain/web_site.html), but do not write them as one word. Otherwise, search engines will understand it as a single word (even if the search engine result highlights this keyword in bold), and your work on URL optimization will be wasted.

B. Main on-the-page factors influencing your ranking

1. <HEAD> area:

<TITLE> tag

1. Your Title tag is not the first tag in the <HEAD> area of your page! Your Title tag should be placed before all other tags, otherwise search engines may overlook it which will significantly damage your rankings.

2. Your Title tag has stop words! Words such as "and, on, a, the, for, to, about, are, that, were, by, of" and other auxiliary words are too common and search engines don't take them into consideration. By using a stop word in your Title tag, you potentially damage your rankings. A rule of thumb: the less stop words you use in your Title tag, the better.

3. Your keyword is not present in the Title tag! Your keyword should appear at least once in the Title tag, but it doesn't appear at all. Put the keyword into your Title tag or you'll be unlikely to rank high.

2. <BODY> area:

Visible text

1. None of your keywords are in bold! The fact that you put a certain keyword or phrase in bold tells the search engine that you place an emphasis on it. Naturally it considers these words or phrases to be more important than those in regular font. We recommend that you put your key phrase in bold one or more times.

2. Your keyword is too far away from the beginning of this page! Your keyword's prominence is only 0.0% while it should be at least 57%. If possible, move your keyword closer to the beginning of your page; this will greatly improve overall prominence.

3. Your keyword doesn't have enough weight on your page! Your keyword should constitute at least 2 percent, while with your page it is only 0.0%. Increase the keyword weight so its value ranges within the boundaries of 2-10 percent. Also keep in mind the possibility of using different forms of your keywords. While ranking, search engines consider not only direct matches of keywords, but also their various alterations. For instance, for the query "web hosting," search engines will take into account the occurrences of such words as "host", "hosting", "webhosts" etc. on your pages. In addition, the modification of your keyword makes the content more user-friendly, so your page doesn't look like a readability puzzle stuffed with one and the same keyphrase. And remember: a good technique for writing page copy is to write naturally.

4. Your keyword is not present at the beginning of this page! Early appearance of your keyword shows its importance in the context of the entire page because it is mentioned at the very beginning We recommend that keywords be placed in the first 50 words in the visible text of this page.

5. Your keyword is not present at the end of your page! Your page will be more relevant if your keyword appears at the end of the visible text. To achieve this, put your keyword in the last 50 words of your copy.

Text in links including ALTs

1. Your keyword rarely appears in the ALT / TITLE attributes of text and graphical links on this page! Your keyword should appear at least once in text links, but it doesn't appear at all. We recommend that it be used in such links up to 6 times. You can easily adjust this number with your favorite HTML editor.

ALT image attributes

1. Your keyword is not present in the first 3 ALT image attributes on your page (or there are no ALT attributes at all)! If you have images on your page, put the keyword in one of these ALTs as they are considered more important than the rest of the ALTs on your page. Even though ALT tags haven't gained much importance with Google, the Yahoo! and Windows Live search engines pay much more attention to them.

2. Your keyword frequency in ALT image attributes is too low! Your keyword should appear 1 to 3 times in ALTs on this page while it is found 0 time(s). You can easily adjust this number with your favorite HTML editor.

Posted by Brian Blake (My-MLSOnline.com Real Estate IDX) about 1 year ago

what is your top market in your area that you work?

give me the cities where you sell the most property. What is your target Market?

Without these in your Title and in the keywords. Your site may not be properly indexed.

This is a really easy fix. Most sites let you input your title and keywords. Keep them simple and focused.

So if you are selling homes in St. Louis then you want St. Louis real estate, st louis homes, real estate in st louis, etc.

Only a few. You will notice that the reports all say too many or too few words for titles and descriptions and it explains it. So. Shorten up your titles, modify your keywords and descriptions and I will run the optimization again and we can see the changes.

Too much is too much. The search engines only allow so much information in the keywords, titles and descriptions.

But in your site you want st louis real estate in there as many times as possible. When you are writing information about yourself or on your homepage, make sure you include st louis real estate in there at least 9 times. This is where more is better.

Posted by Brian Blake (My-MLSOnline.com Real Estate IDX) about 1 year ago

Here are some Good Titles you may want to try.

St. Louis Real Estate from Pat Moore

West Palm Beach Real Estate from Steve Hoffacker

You need to be specific because Florida Real Estate is way too broad the same way real estate is too broad.

Posted by Brian Blake (My-MLSOnline.com Real Estate IDX) about 1 year ago

I need you to post the web addresses that you want compared to I guess. I better not just guess or pull from search engines or it may not be too beneficial to you.

Name me 5 sites that you think are your competition. search google.com for ideas.

Also send me 5 keywords or keyword phrases that define your market. reno real estate, reno nevada real estate, reno homes, reno nevada relocation. etc. These should be your keywords in your site. I will run the report to see how your site fares with those keywords.

Those reports take an hour or so.

Posted by Brian Blake (My-MLSOnline.com Real Estate IDX) about 1 year ago

Steve. You have nearly all your pages indexed in all engines. A few to work on but it looks good.

Posted by Brian Blake (My-MLSOnline.com Real Estate IDX) about 1 year ago

Lookingforhomes.com indexation. How many pages are indexed on your site???

ALL? looks pretty good. The page goes on and on with 287 pages.

Posted by Brian Blake (My-MLSOnline.com Real Estate IDX) about 1 year ago

Here are PatMooreSells.com Indexation.

You are in all the major engines but Yahoo really loves you. lol

81 pages indexed in these search engines.

Posted by Brian Blake (My-MLSOnline.com Real Estate IDX) about 1 year ago

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