Comments on: Some SEO changes http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/ Seattle's Leading Resource for Real Estate Information Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:47:42 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: An SEO Update… | Rain City Guide | A Seattle Real Estate Blog... http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-48451 An SEO Update… | Rain City Guide | A Seattle Real Estate Blog... Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:30:25 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-48451 [...] An SEO Update… December 15, 2006 My guess is that there is still a lot of interest from real estate professionals on how to use SEO (search engine optimization) to drive (free!) traffic to your site. With that in mind, I thought I’d keep people updated on the little SEO experiment I started a week ago. As you’ll likely see, the results so far have been somewhat mixed. [...] [...] An SEO Update… December 15, 2006 My guess is that there is still a lot of interest from real estate professionals on how to use SEO (search engine optimization) to drive (free!) traffic to your site. With that in mind, I thought I’d keep people updated on the little SEO experiment I started a week ago. As you’ll likely see, the results so far have been somewhat mixed. [...]

]]> By: Dustin http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43862 Dustin Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:11:02 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43862 To others, Robbie: RCG is DEFINITELY being crawled by MSN and Yahoo, but they just don't send me much traffic. Interestingly, however, today was the first day I've even noticed where the percent of traffic from Google was less than 90% (it was 88%). I'll be curious to see how this changes over the next few weeks! But that likely had a lot to do with the fact that we show up quite well on many searches for Zillow. (Did anyone else notice that Zillow made an announcement last night???) Tom: I'm going to work on the site map... <a href="http://www.raincityguide.com/archive/" rel="nofollow">I figured that the archive</a> would probably do the trick for this site since every article is listed there, but I may look into the site map as well. Phileto: I turned off tags for a little while because I keep pushing out my servers and the people at my hosting company were convinced that it was the tag plugin. However, I keep getting notices that the CPU rate on the servers is way too high even after the tags plugin was taken offline, so that obviously is not the problem! (There's too many of you visitors! You guys are getting expensive! LOL) To others,

Robbie: RCG is DEFINITELY being crawled by MSN and Yahoo, but they just don’t send me much traffic. Interestingly, however, today was the first day I’ve even noticed where the percent of traffic from Google was less than 90% (it was 88%). I’ll be curious to see how this changes over the next few weeks! But that likely had a lot to do with the fact that we show up quite well on many searches for Zillow. (Did anyone else notice that Zillow made an announcement last night???)

Tom: I’m going to work on the site map… I figured that the archive would probably do the trick for this site since every article is listed there, but I may look into the site map as well.

Phileto: I turned off tags for a little while because I keep pushing out my servers and the people at my hosting company were convinced that it was the tag plugin. However, I keep getting notices that the CPU rate on the servers is way too high even after the tags plugin was taken offline, so that obviously is not the problem! (There’s too many of you visitors! You guys are getting expensive! LOL)

]]> By: Dustin http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43860 Dustin Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:04:03 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43860 Thanks to a <a href="http://www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog/" rel="nofollow">little help from my friends</a>, a fixed some of the bugs in the title. This may not sound very politically correct, but a long time ago I switched the title around so that instead of being "Rain City Guide", we were "Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide" for SEO reasons. I noticed almost immediately that I started showing up much better on Seattle-related searches, so I never changed it! I'm happy that in this latest incarnation, I get the best of all words... (i.e. The title of the blog is Rain City Guide, but I still get some important keywords in the title!). Thanks Greg! Thanks to a little help from my friends, a fixed some of the bugs in the title.

This may not sound very politically correct, but a long time ago I switched the title around so that instead of being “Rain City Guide”, we were “Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide” for SEO reasons. I noticed almost immediately that I started showing up much better on Seattle-related searches, so I never changed it!

I’m happy that in this latest incarnation, I get the best of all words… (i.e. The title of the blog is Rain City Guide, but I still get some important keywords in the title!).

Thanks Greg!

]]> By: philleto http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43298 philleto Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:04:40 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43298 Shouldn't the keywords be a meta of each page? If so, then the categories/tags should be the keywords. Shouldn’t the keywords be a meta of each page? If so, then the categories/tags should be the keywords.

]]> By: Tom http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43256 Tom Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:36:14 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43256 Dustin, I changed the meta tags on one of my sites and it hurt it. I may have screwed up but google was not happy at all with that one. Also, adding a google sitemap to the site is always a great trick. Tom Dustin,

I changed the meta tags on one of my sites and it hurt it. I may have screwed up but google was not happy at all with that one.

Also, adding a google sitemap to the site is always a great trick.

Tom

]]> By: Robbie http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43228 Robbie Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:58:47 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43228 I'd make sure you actually submit your site to <a href="http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx" rel="nofollow">MSN / Live Search</a> and <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html" rel="nofollow">Yahoo</a>. If you don't tell them that you exist, they might not find you. Either that, or <a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/06/12/06/166211.shtml" rel="nofollow">Google really is becoming the a monopoly</a> people accuse them of becoming. I’d make sure you actually submit your site to MSN / Live Search and Yahoo. If you don’t tell them that you exist, they might not find you.

Either that, or Google really is becoming the a monopoly people accuse them of becoming.

]]> By: Dustin http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43226 Dustin Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:29:11 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43226 Reggie, In terms of changes... Let's give it at least a week! :) Reggie,

In terms of changes… Let’s give it at least a week! :)

]]> By: Dustin http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43225 Dustin Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:28:10 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43225 Thanks for the feedback... Dave, I didn't even notice that... The other affect I just noticed was that it puts a ">>" in front of the article title... I'll futz around when I get a few more minutes! Thanks for the feedback…

Dave, I didn’t even notice that… The other affect I just noticed was that it puts a “>>” in front of the article title… I’ll futz around when I get a few more minutes!

]]> By: Reggie http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43156 Reggie Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:42:32 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43156 How is this working for you? Have you noticed a difference? Do your keywords match the comments you post about regularly? How is this working for you? Have you noticed a difference? Do your keywords match the comments you post about regularly?

]]> By: Dave Smith http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43114 Dave Smith Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:06:12 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/12/05/some-seo-changes/#comment-43114 But now you end up with your blog main page Title starting out with "by" Is that the effect you want? But now you end up with your blog main page Title starting out with “by”

Is that the effect you want?

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