Search Engine Optimization

**DMike** · 01-16-2008, 09:21 PM

As I see it, you can split SEO in two major parts. "on site" optimization and "off site" optimization. The "on site" optimization refers to anything you can improve on your site for SEO side - titles, headers, description, content, links, images, ... . "off site" optimization would be the rest of SEO - get good sites to link to you, submit your site to good web directories over the web, link exchange. Both of those take time because you can see how good some changes are for your site only after a time, usually it takes around two weeks for the search engines to "re-spider" your site and to reflect those changes in searches. It's usually good not to use "black hat tricks", meaning to "fool" the search engines as that usually don't last too long and makes search engines to drop your rankings

**adamwealth** · 03-06-2008, 07:55 AM

Great tips DMike. It can be hard to get to the top, especially in real estate with so many competitors.

**riverviewrichie** · 03-22-2008, 09:41 PM

What does made in china have to do with Real Estate?

**Techno** · 03-23-2008, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by DMike

It's usually good not to use "black hat tricks", meaning to "fool" the search engines as that usually don't last too long and makes search engines to drop your rankings

This could not be more true!! Avoid any service or company that tells you that they know how to "fool" Google or "trick" Yahoo. You will ussually end up paying in the end when Google or Yahoo remove your site from their directories for using these tactics.

Michael