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How Your Interior Web
Site Pages Can
Get Better Found By Search Engines
By
Bill Koelzer
If you’re like most agents, you think of your web site as being your home page URL: for example, www.YourCityAndRealEstate.com. But you can have MANY “web sites” if you treat your interior pages with the same respect as you do your home page.
We all get a bit
lax when it comes to interior pages. But engines that do deep
searching like Google and Yahoo, which account for most all searches
done, can rank your interior pages highly, too. However, only if
you help them.
Haven’t you ever
done a search for some nugget of news or data and been sent to some
page with an interminably long address like www.BigInfoSite.com/categories/real_estate/michigan/Info/Articles/InteriorPages.htm?
Well, that was an
interior page having data that matched your search, and the
search engine delivered it to you, perhaps even as a first
choice. So why not have your interior pages come up like
that, too?
The way to get
interior pages
optimized to come up better on search engines is to:
- Make their
infrastructure appealing to search engines, and
- Add significant
content to them.
Here’s a few tasks
that will help:
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Add
Meta Tags with interspersed key words relevant solely
to the content of the interior page.
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Add a significantly large headline
that uses proper key words for THAT page.
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Add more short paragraphs
of content about the topic of that page.
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Just when you think you have
enough content on the page, add more. Content is king.
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Use photos to add eye appeal for visitors, or you will lose
them even if your page is #1.
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Go take or find pictures relating
to the page’s content; post with captions containing key words
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Include
hyperlinks within the text, to other pages within your site,
or to outside references
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If a city-related page, add tons
of links to city-related information, but…
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…link more to outside city
pages that repeat the key words for your particular internal page.
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Get other sites to link to your
interior page using
anchor text that helps that page come up high.
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But vary your requests for
desired reciprocal link anchor text so they are not identical.
(critical)
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Set a personal goal of adding one
new page of content every two weeks.
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Measure the performance of that
page using readily available
tools and services.
Since you should
have already applied all of the above to your home page, none
of this should be daunting to you. Go test this starting with just
three of your topmost ranked internal pages. Give it three months.
And just see if doing the above has made a remarkable difference.
Remember, if they
cannot find your site, they cannot do business with you. So
maximize your chances of getting found. Make your internal pages
get found, too.
These references
can also help you with your internal pages:
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How Google ranks sites
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Google and local city references:
(Take all these below suggestions
with a grain of salt as things change daily)
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search-engines-web.com
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Add Google Search to your site
Bill Koelzer is a Web marketing consultant to Web-proficient agents nationwide. He is co-author, with Barbara Cox, Ph.D., of the Prentice-Hall books, "Internet Marketing in Real Estate" and Internet Marketing. Koelzer is also webmaster of Orange County Real Estate - Search MLS, among the most-awarded known Realtor® sites. Contact info: www.koelzer.com or e-mail him at Bill@Koelzer.com
Below are a
few examples of Interior Pages that our clients have created. Please
enter in these keywords without the quotes.
(Please note
these results are subject to change at any time!)
Entering in
“las vegas high rise condos” in Google,
LVRealty.net comes
up in the #3 position with an optimized interior page for high rise
condos. You can see how LVRealty.net created custom meta tags
through their Classic Package 3.0 and have this page filled with
content.
Typing in
"hyakumata golf" in Google,
C21MyrtleBeach.com comes up in the 4th result with the 'Wood
Stork' golf course owned by Hyakumata & Co.
Typing in
"myrtle beach river oaks condos sale" in Google,
C21MyrtleBeach.com comes up in the 3rd result with their site
map that they have created.
In the 4th
position, typing in
"dick's bodacious barbeque" comes up with
PatHaddad.com's
Local Partner Network. Pat's has a page on Dick's Bodacious Barbeque
entered in through her Local Partners. Pat received 5 hits to her
website in March for simply entering this partner into her website.
In the 1st
position, typing in
"homes for sale in 46032" comes up with an informative page on
places of worship in Carmel, IN created by
Pat Haddad.
2004 'Most Impressive
Advanced Access Website' Contest
Welcome to the Most Impressive Website Contest – our second annual promotion that provides YOU - our valued clients - an opportunity to nominate a website designed and hosted by Advanced Access for a special award.
This contest is special as it was created last year by our Advanced Access forum members. We are pleased to announce the nomination period for our 2nd annual "Most Impressive Website" contest.
Nominations will be accepted from April 1, 2004 to April 30, 2004. The voting period will be the first two weeks in May and the winner will be announced in the May Newsletter. This is a contest voted on by your peers.
Voting will start soon and end on May 14, 2004. We will let you know via the Marketing Tips and Advanced Access Forum about voting instructions. Keep in mind there may be many nominations to a particular category! Be sure to enter in a comment that will entice your voters to click on your entry.
The winners will be announced in the May Advanced Access Newsletter.
Prizes will be awarded from RealEstateABC.com, InternetCrusade.com, and VisualTour.com! These companies are long-time partners of ours and have graciously offered some of their services to you.
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