Comments on: Icicle Creek Real Estate SEO Review

By: Tax Foreclosures

Tax Foreclosures — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:39:14 +0000

According to me for good marketing of real estate business clean up your website. I am constantly amazed by how unbelievably cluttered a lot of real estate websites are.

By: Tax Foreclosures

Tax Foreclosures — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:39:14 +0000

According to me for good marketing of real estate business clean up your website. I am constantly amazed by how unbelievably cluttered a lot of real estate websites are.

By: john beck

john beck — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:33:12 +0000

When it comes to web real estate, you could say the same thing: location, location, location in search engines. Organic real estate on the web refers to the positioning your website has on the web landscape.

By: investinrealestate

investinrealestate — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:30:44 +0000

With investing in single family homes it is easy to achieve positive cash flow. Even if your rent income doesn’t cover your expenses 100%, With commercial real estate the rules are different.

By: ravm

ravm — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:10:09 +0000

Yes, the site is nicely done with pretty good onsite seo. They have a PR 4 which is impressive too. Their contact form is mis-aligned, a small but relevant detail. Thanks for your review.

By: ravm

ravm — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:10:09 +0000

Yes, the site is nicely done with pretty good onsite seo. They have a PR 4 which is impressive too. Their contact form is mis-aligned, a small but relevant detail. Thanks for your review.

By: free real estate web 2.0 blogs

free real estate web 2.0 blogs — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:05:18 +0000

According to me for good marketing of real estate business clean up your website. I am constantly amazed by how unbelievably cluttered a lot of real estate websites are. What hope do you have of generating leads if people can’t find anything on your site? Start this process by determining your “action paths” (next item).

By: Geordy Rostad

Geordy Rostad — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:29:46 +0000

I don’t think you could pay for a better analysis than that! I need to take a second look at my site. Particularly with the dupe content problem of WordPress since I’m using categories and tags at the moment. Are you converting well off of your Icicle Creek site? When I posted my article on ABC link trades, I caught flak from a bunch of naysayers who argued that optimizing an individual site is a waste of effort. If you don’t have a niche, they may be correct but how are you doing since you do have a niche?

By: Geordie Romer | Leavenworth WA

Geordie Romer | Leavenworth WA — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:29:50 +0000

Jim- Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated. (Lots to think about and investigate.)

By: Jim Marks

Jim Marks — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:15:58 +0000

Geordy, your site is great and obviously you have invested tons of time into it. Good on you!

I have not done an analysis on it and am simply providing some thoughts. If you feel I am wrong, cool. Just consider this some random musings from an overworked, slightly knowledgable FOGE. (Friend of Geek Estate)

Lets call this, “If this were my site, I MIGHT think about…

1) Domain. A keyword rich domain would have been better.
2)Domain Age. Nothing you can do here, but a big deal (for you) you are under 5 years old. Your competitors are 8-10. This may be a domain age issue. It may be a LINK AGE issue… didn’t check.
3)Domains Again. Because your URL is Icycle… and your titles dont include Leavenworth, your URLS dont either. FOrced with this problem, I MAY add Leavenworth real estate to my permalinks..
4)Titles. It appears (to me) that very few if any of your blog posts have yor keyword Leavenworth Real Estate in the title? A simple change of your blog name in Allinone would fix this.
5) Dupe Content. WP has a taxonomy problem. When you create a page, WP creates a category page, date page, author page,archive page, etc. It APPEARS as if all these except category are being indexed. Multiple URLS to the same content is dupe. Just check it.
6) Pagination. It looks as if, not only did you not increase your pagination, but you removed the default older.newer pagination… Plenty of plugins to fix this. Right now you have linked categories from your sidebar. This is a site-wide link to your category page. You then noindexed your category page? How are your pages getting crawled except sitemap.xml? This may be fine. I am prolly missing something, but the structure seems like it might create a crawler issue… this would take some work, but well worth it.
7) Drew is 100% correct on his external link statement. Rands article is 6 months old. The Google PR change was announced 1 month ago. In addition, Rand would NEVER suggest linking from your sidebar. Those are site-wide links. Heres a guideline. If the link is valuable to your readers, keep it. But get it out of the side bar.
7)Image Optimization… Didn’t understand the pattern here… may be okay. Just didn’t see the alt optimization…
Category Descriptions…Do you have them? Keyword rich Category descriptions?
9)URL Stopwords..You dont need to put every work in your title into the permalink… I would consider removing stopwords.
10) Did I say your blog was great? I meant it. Way better than most I have seen. Be Proud.

CAUTION: These are just musings from a bystander. I am not an SEO, (although I do stay at Holiday Inns)and EVERY SINGLE one of these points may be wrong. Some of this stuff is really nit-picky, but you seem like you care… so I thought I would mention.

Good Luck!