Comments on: Help Removing Your Agent to Agent Links http://www.advancedaccess.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/12/help-removing-your-agent-to-agent-links/ Marketing Tips and other tid bits for your Real Estate Website Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:25:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Marguerite Kaufman http://www.advancedaccess.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/12/help-removing-your-agent-to-agent-links/#comment-13692 Marguerite Kaufman Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:51:40 +0000 http://www.blAAwg.com/2007/06/12/help-removing-your-agent-to-agent-links/#comment-13692 Look at city site searches where google rates itself as no.1. Look at how they take sponsered links also on top as well as the right hand sides and blend the sponsers links (especially the top 3 or 4 sponsered links at the top of the page into the background. They make the difference so indistinct on tone that you have to examine it from all angles to know that it is a sponsered links. Since consumers view the first page like a triangle, the number 2 slot is now in reality the number 6th slot. Now you can tell me how white hat google is. The fish smells all the way to Texas. Whatever google decides is interesting. Black is now white. Me thinks that they are becoming extremely greedy but of course there is nothing we can do about it. But eventually it will become irrelevant as consumers will get smart about what the rankings mean. Look at city site searches where google rates itself as no.1. Look at how they take sponsered links also on top as well as the right hand sides and blend the sponsers links (especially the top 3 or 4 sponsered links at the top of the page into the background. They make the difference so indistinct on tone that you have to examine it from all angles to know that it is a sponsered links. Since consumers view the first page like a triangle, the number 2 slot is now in reality the number 6th slot. Now you can tell me how white hat google is. The fish smells all the way to Texas. Whatever google decides is interesting. Black is now white. Me thinks that they are becoming extremely greedy but of course there is nothing we can do about it. But eventually it will become irrelevant as consumers will get smart about what the rankings mean.

]]> By: Anna http://www.advancedaccess.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/12/help-removing-your-agent-to-agent-links/#comment-13096 Anna Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:38:48 +0000 http://www.blAAwg.com/2007/06/12/help-removing-your-agent-to-agent-links/#comment-13096 Hi Bob :) Matt Cutts has specifically mentioned on his blog and also in greater detail at SMX that paid links are on their chopping block. I don't believe that if 2 friends have a deal with each other for a text link as a one time thing are going to have an issue; how would someone know it's paid? (As long as the link is relevant - example, a home inspector and RE agent who work together a lot, etc). But it's those who sell links to a few or a bunch of people... those are not great and we don't recommend those at all - they are not immune from detection by any means. Especially with the reports being made... that's all manual stuff. Then they'll work it into the algo. The best advice I can give on links is that there are no "get rich quick" schemes that will have any sort of longevity. Slow and steady (and relevant) wins the race. Hi Bob :)

Matt Cutts has specifically mentioned on his blog and also in greater detail at SMX that paid links are on their chopping block. I don’t believe that if 2 friends have a deal with each other for a text link as a one time thing are going to have an issue; how would someone know it’s paid? (As long as the link is relevant – example, a home inspector and RE agent who work together a lot, etc). But it’s those who sell links to a few or a bunch of people… those are not great and we don’t recommend those at all – they are not immune from detection by any means. Especially with the reports being made… that’s all manual stuff. Then they’ll work it into the algo.

The best advice I can give on links is that there are no “get rich quick” schemes that will have any sort of longevity. Slow and steady (and relevant) wins the race.

]]> By: Bob Lipply http://www.advancedaccess.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/12/help-removing-your-agent-to-agent-links/#comment-12951 Bob Lipply Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:01:13 +0000 http://www.blAAwg.com/2007/06/12/help-removing-your-agent-to-agent-links/#comment-12951 I agree with keeping a "clean house" but what about all the real estate websites that buy text links to increase their ranking? I agree with keeping a “clean house” but what about all the real estate websites that buy text links to increase their ranking?

]]> By: Joe Lane http://www.advancedaccess.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/12/help-removing-your-agent-to-agent-links/#comment-12905 Joe Lane Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:15:00 +0000 http://www.blAAwg.com/2007/06/12/help-removing-your-agent-to-agent-links/#comment-12905 Great article. State pages today, contextual links tomorrow. Many Realtors are migrating from state reciprocal link spam, to contextual link spam. It will be best to keep a 'clean house' in anticipation of Google's next real estate website penalty phase. Great article. State pages today, contextual links tomorrow. Many Realtors are migrating from state reciprocal link spam, to contextual link spam. It will be best to keep a ‘clean house’ in anticipation of Google’s next real estate website penalty phase.

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