This document provides an overview of search engine optimization (SEO) for real estate websites. It explains that 88% of home buyers and 97% of consumers research products online, so SEO is important for real estate visibility. The presentation covers search engines and page rank, improving crawling and indexing through organizational structure and keywords, and on-page optimization techniques like optimized titles, meta tags and headings. It also notes the increasing importance of mobile optimization and social media. The goal is to help search engines and users easily find relevant real estate information through SEO best practices.
1. SEO 101 For Real Estate
Presented By:
Nate LeBlanc
Marketing Associate
2. SEO 101
• Search Engines
Overview • Page Rank
• SEO Pyramid
• Improve Crawling & Indexing
• On-Page Optimization
• New Developments
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Why Do You need SEO?
“ According to the 2011 National Association of
REALTORS® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers,
88% of home buyers used the internet in their
home search”
“ 97% of consumers go online to do research on
products or services (Google)”
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Without SEO, websites remain mostly invisible to search
engines. For a search engine it is like travelling through a
city without any signs.
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When Person types a search query the Search engine goes
back searches through the large datasets to get the most
relevant & popular information determined by page rank
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Help Search Engines & Users
Flat Hierarchy- Make it easier to find pages to people & search
engines
Keep important pages within several clicks from the
homepage
Get in the user shoes- can they easily find the desired
information (Search Boston Real Estate) from the navigation
links?
Submit your site to Google and Bing webmaster
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URLS
Make your URLs of appropriate length
Keyword use is important but not overuse
Keep subdomains limited
Use Hypens to separate words
example- www.abcd.com/boston-real-estate
But not www.abcd.com/bostonrealestate
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Housekeeping
No Duplicate Content. (Copyscape.com)
Limit use of JavaScript
Don’t Iframe
Check for broke links (Brokenlinkcheck.com)
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On-page Optimization
• Title tags
• Meta Title
• Meta Description
• Anchor Text
• Alt Text For Images/Videos
• H1, H2 Tags
• Meta Keywords
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AFTER CRAWLING THE SEARCH ENGINE STORE YOUR WEBSITE IN A HUGE LIBRARY DIVIDED INTO SPECIFIC KEYWORDS SO THAT THEY CAN BE SEARCHED THROUGH RAPIDLY & CRAWLS BACK FROM TIME TO TIME TO CHECK FOR NEW INFORMATION.
with new search algorithms factoring social media into search rankings, and social networks introducing search features of their own, social networks are becoming more and more important esp cause of their hyper local nature