Featured agent profile - web linking opportunity January 20, 2006
John Vanhara
This is one of the best linking strategies you can use. Get your website linked from PR 5 web with high quality information about real estate. Yes, this is the best. One way link from the place which is relevant. In this case it is from website called HomesParadise.com.
Your profile will be placed on the relevant page about your city or community. It will look like this:
Your profile will be posted for a full year and the cost is only $35. Only one agent or one team per page. This is the best value you can every get in real estate SEO! Email us if interested.
Do you type WWW in front of your domain name? January 13, 2006
John Vanhara
When accessing different websites do you type just domain name (iloverealestate.biz) or do you type www in front of the domain name (www.iloverealestate.biz). Everybody is different and people are using both options. But the important issue is how your own website works.
When you type just domain name will your website show in the address bar: www.iloverealestate.biz (automatically add www)? It is very important to use just version and set up your web server so whatever option users type it will show just one option.
The set up is done through function called mod_rewrite and what you have to do is to place small piece of code to your .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^iloverealestate\.biz [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.iloverealestate.biz/$1 [R=301,L]
Why is it so important? Because otherwise search engines like Google might think that there are multiple versions of your website. We can help you fix small things like that for less than $25 fee. It takes few minutes, but can make long term and substantial effect on your search engine rankings.
Display author picture in your WordPress blog January 10, 2006
John Vanhara
Putting you picture next to article you write in your blog will help you create of image of expert in the real estate area. I really like WordPress as blog software because of all the free plugins you can use to customize your blog software. Let’s say you work with few other agents and have a team blog about real estate in your city. One of you is doing commercial and other agents residential. You want to have your name and picture next to your articles. Each time potential clients will read your articles they will see your photo and your name next to them. It is more efficient then regular advertising. And it doesn’t cost anything extra!
The plugin I used for displaying pictures is free. You can download it here or let us help you to set it up. This is another service we can provide.
Email notifications for new posts in WordPress January 8, 2006
John Vanhara
There are still too many users out there who do not know how RSS works. They might be very interested in your blog, but don’t know how to subscribe and get notifications when new articles is posted.
If you use WordPress for your real estate blog here is a plugin who will take care of email notification. I just installed on this blog. You can see in the right sidebar new form for subscribing for email notifications.
The email notification plugin is provided for free by Watershred Studio.
If you want help with installation for your blog let us know. We promise that price will be under $50.
Free advanced stats for your web January 7, 2006
John Vanhara
I think everybody already knows, but just in case. Google introduced great and free statistics program, you can you for your real estate website.
The program was formerly known as Urchin and cost about $500 per month. The company was acquired by Google and price dropped to about $200 per month and now the great statistics program is available for free.
Here is the main window showing you the trend in visits and unique page views. How many visitors are returning or first time visits. As you can see on our ILoveRealEstate.biz website we have currently 28.57% returning visitors. It shows the main sources of visitors. In our example we have 53.17% direct requests, which means people directly typing our domain name in their browser, 16.67% from Google, 4.67% from technorati.com (this is search engine for blogs and it is another example how blogs can bring traffic).
Just for knowing where is your traffic coming from is good reason why to install Google Analytics on your web. It takes about 15-45 minutes depending how many pages do you have (you have to copy and paste code to your page). If you need help we can hel you set up Google Analytics for your website. We like to keep things simple so work like that will be always for less than $50.
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