Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Friday, May 4, 2007

Top SEO secret every blogger wants to know!

Simple idea!

I started this Pune Real Estate Blog with a very simple idea:
1) I wanted to keep in touch with my clients even after the particular transaction is over.
2) I wished to become available to my clients whenever they need any kind of service and/or advice.
3) I wanted to share my and my client's experience and knowledge with the first time home buyers in Pune.

Complex SEO!

First thing i realized that i have to do search engine optimization to achieve my goal. I have to make my blog easily available and accessible to my clients. Fortunately, there is a lot of information and help available on the net about SEO. So i went on exploring it.

But as i went on reading about SEO, it only confused me and convinced me that i can't do it on my own. I also realized why there are so many people who make a career out of it! I was more than sure about the success of my blog when i happened to read Mike Carter on "Web or Dead SEO Blog".

Result is, i am not only on the web but in top 10 on Google and my PR is 3! Thanks! Mike because of you, now my clients can read my blog and things have started happening!

Gentleman and his girl friend!

Though Mike Carter is a professional SEO consultant, he is a perfect gentleman. He did not abuse me with his knowledge and expertise. He never claimed he has any supernatural powers. He did not convinced me that SEO is any kind of a trick or magic.

Mike only gave me a simple advice. Yes, he gave me free advice. He told me Google is his girl friend. If i behave like a gentleman Google could become my friend too! Once in a while, i can flirt with her but i should never treat her like i treat my wife!

Mike, now not only Pune Real Estate Market but even my wife is very thankful to you. I wish every blogger should have a friend, philosopher and guide like you!


P. S. Mike, i even convinced my associates to create a website of our new project on Google pages!

Monday, April 30, 2007

How to get PageRank 7 for my Pune Real Estate Blog?

Desperate Blogger:
I didn't believe what i saw on my Google Firefox Toolbar. I opened my Pune Real Estate blog and for the first time in my life that PageRank window was not empty. There was some green color in it! I was tempted to touch the cursor and check the page rank. I do it every time. Even when i know very well the exact page rank of the blog. Lately, i am sort of obsessed with it. But who is not?

My PageRank3!
But this time, i didn't dare to do it. I just closed my browser! Got out of the chair. Went to the fridge and gulped down a glass of cold water. Came back and opened the browser and logged on to my Pune Real Estate blog. Yes, this time too, there was some green color in the page rank window. Now i couldn't hold myself back. I checked it. Yes! It was there. I read it very loudly, "PageRank is Google's view of the importance of this page (3/10)"

PR Tool and Toolbar!
I took the cursor away and it vanished. Again i touched it. It was there! " PageRank is Google's view of the importance of this page...." i went on reading. I did it again and again. Touched the tool bar. Read the statement. Oh! what an experience. Even you can do it if you are using Firefox Google Tool bar with page rank. If you don't have download it here, on my Pune Real Estate blog - Yes, i can encourage you! (of course, you can see my 'prchecker' button on the side column) I never felt so proud of myself before! Sorry, i felt it once. When my kinder garden teacher praised my hand writing and gave me the permission to use the fountain pen!

Algorithm!
I don't know, how many times i checked it again and again or was i reading loudly or shouting? My dear dog, Don didn't take it in the right spirit and started barking at me. This disturbed my wife's sleep. She cried from the bedroom, "come to me or go out with the dog but shut that damn computer off." I had to stop feeling proud of myself. But i preferred to take the dog out for a walk.

Danny Sullivan and Matt Cutts: Web gurus!
While walking i realized that to improve my Pune Real Estate blog's ranking, first thing i have to do is get rid of this dog. Dogs are of no use. Even Danny Sullivan didn't blog about his dog, Daisy, till this month. I will Google for some one like Emmy, who loves blogging. Who will sleep on my chest when i am blogging. Even some one like Ozzie, Matt's other cat, will also do. Or should i go for 'googlebot'? According to the poll 225 out of 1023 people have it as a pet!

As i went on thinking, i realized it is a very serious issue. But getting a 21K+ rss subscriber's and page rank 7/10 may be difficult but not impossible target for my Pune Real Estate Blog!

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Pune/L.A./NY: Real Estate Agent has to deal with Saddam, Batman, Lawn Jockey and 1Bathroom House.....and what not!

  1. "Americans have decided that we like a private bathroom for ourselves and another bathroom for our guests and children. " So 1 Bathroom houses from 1970 and earlier have become obsolete! From Virginia Real Estate Settlement Service. Their 'Home Owner's Manual' has very useful tips.
  2. "What to do with Monuments in Iraq?" Mr. Al Brophy says," The same monument may mean very different things to different people" (!) His blog 'PropertyProf Blog' is a member of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
  3. "Like living in Times Square West" claims the ad of 'Sky Lofts', a real estate project in Los Angeles!
  4. "April Fool!" Read this and you will come to know why Mr.Tim O'Keefe (Real Estate Marketing Blog) is called the guru of online real estate marketing.
  5. "Holy Smokes, Batman, That Was Fast!" within 3 hours after the publishing the blog post, from no ranking '3Ocean Real Estate' blog becomes number 14 on Google! Congrats Mr.Kevin Boer!
  6. Advice to home sellers? Mr. Al Brophy, ProperyProf Blog, raises a question about the advice to 'de-black' homes while selling by removing pictures, books and even poster of Martin Luther King. He also talks about 'Lawn Jockey' - symbol of white supremacy or tribute to faithful slaves?