Search Engine Optimization Project

**Las Vegas Homes** · 07-05-2005, 07:30 PM

I already have a prgrammer who is working on this and it is just about done. The only problem right now is he is in China so it will be a few more weeks till it is done. Once I get some feedback and we can test this on a live site then I will come back and post some data.

**HHI Golf Guy** · 07-05-2005, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by frobn

I thought about your point "smells like link spam" but then what can be more relevant to a real estate site than listings.

Link spam is the over use of internal links and anchor text in an effort to inflate SE rankings. I assume you will be auto generating link text based upon the property description and certain field names. Unless you are also using a large pool of your own descriptors to add/replace info from these fields, there is a potential to generate many near duplicate descriptions. Perhaps adding the address information will help to dilute this potential problem, but from what I have seen it may not be enough.

With SEs anything you do is a gamble, but if Google, Yahoo, and MSN are sincere when they say they want good content I plan on giving them good content. They wouldn't be telling fibs would they?

IMHO, that is a big gamble, because you are not controlling the overall text content - it is provided by whatever info the sales assistant or agent wants to place in the description of each listing.

Once again, these are my own opinions regarding SEO and what I perceive as what the search engines consider relative content (which may be different from what web surfers consider relative content). Good luck on your experiment!

**frobn** · 07-06-2005, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by STVP

So when do we get started?

Good question.

How about now?

1. Send me your links and anchor text
2. Select the page(s) from http://broadwaykeys.com/search.html that you want your link(s) on
3. Tell me what page or selection of pages where you will place my link
*4. Agree to keep external links on the page under 20

You are welcome to join in if you have a quality site and pages and are willing to do the work necessary for quality linking. According to Google "TrustedPage" (from memory) -- the quality of links are directly proportional to the care taken in obtaining them.

Linking process.

I have set up several theme pages with text and can set up others. The pages originate from:
http://broadwaykeys.com/search.html which has a PR4.

Linking pages:

Ocean Condos & Homes
Vacation Homes & Condos
Waterfront Condos & Homes
Investment Properties
Country Living
Golf Course Homes & Condos

Suggest a different page for example "Desert Homes" let me know and send me some text to put on the page.

I will exchange links with similar pages on real estate related sites. Max number of links per page 20. Under 10 is preferable. Links will go between paragraphs or be incorporated in the text.

No - nos
1. No Frames
2. No state pages
3. No word "link" or derivitive in the url

I am looking for 50 to 75 quality links over a period of 6 months.