Positive Real Estate Professionals

It never fails that I get 2 or 3 emails requesting link exchanges on a daily basis. Most of the requests are from people with low ranking sites that have some relevance to us. However, I typically turn all of them down unless it is a member of our online real estate network. The biggest reason that we do this is because we are not here to promote sites of non-members. We created this network to promote our members and that is what we try to do. Read More

Linking is an important SEO tool for any website. If you do a Google search for ‘linking’ and you will find numerous blog posts on the subject. This is such an important topic that you can find numerous posts written by the admins right here on Positive Real Estate Professionals: Read More

Recently I wrote a post that gave readers the tools necessary to show up on the Google map when someone does a search; Get Your Business On The Map – Marketing Your Business Online. Prior to that I wrote a post that instructed readers on how to have their business listed for FREE in the online version of the yellow pages; Get Your Business In The Book – Marketing Your Business Online. Both of these posts were part of my Marketing Your Business Online series that was purposely designed to help people improve their internet presence and reach more potential clients and referral sources. With this post I want to build on the information in those two posts with regard to Being Found On PREP and the internet overall. Read More

Links to your site from other sites are an important indicator in the eyes of many search engines of the popularity of a site. If your site has hundreds or thousands of pages that link to it this can be an important factor in high placement in search engine results. With that said there are numerous caveats when it comes to linking. Read More

For those of you that missed the first part of this series, you might want to read Using Comments to Build Links and Drive Traffic – Part 1 first. For those of you who read that article, then let’s jump right into this section of the article. Read More

Over the years, I seem to asked a lot about building quality links as well as how to drive quality traffic to sites. Once that can of worms is opened, I refer the person asking this question to using comments to build links and drive traffic to their site. This practice might be the easiest thing that you will ever do and get great results from it. The problem is, most people are just not dedicated to doing it. With that said, most people are not dedicated to responding to questions on their on posts either. You might as well take the proverbial gun and shoot yourself in the foot. Before you do that, let’s take a look at how each of these can help you. We will do this over the next 2 days in a 2 part article. Today we will look at how commenting will and can help build links. Read More

In today’s time, Sitemaps are important to the search engines and to your website. I could leave it at that and hope that all of you take my word for it based on the SEO success this real estate network has. However, I am not gullible enough to believe that I can just say it and people will believe it. Most people do not even know the importance of the sitemap, so they think that it is no more than a waste of space. In reality, sitemaps are much more than that. In today’s article, I am going to attempt to explain the importance of having a sitemap of your website. Read More

“Nofollow” provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines “Don’t follow links on this page” or “Don’t follow this specific link.” Read More

Commenting: Friend or Foe? This is the million dollar question that we will be looking at today. Please understand this before we go any further, the information provided in this post pertains to blogging for business. Even though it MIGHT hold value to regular bloggers, my thought process is based business oriented blogs. With that out of the way, let’s move forward. Read More

One of the reasons we blog for business is to attract potential new clients. Most businesses can benefit from the added exposure of blogging, with the pull of a properly optimized network compounding that draw. If you are in a highly specialized, obscure, or frequently misunderstood field then informative posts on different aspects of your business can really help to draw in readers who may be only marginally interested or aware of you particular specialty. This month I have written two posts that discuss important aspects of Blogging For Business. The first of these posts is all about Engaging Your Site’s Visitors and examines the importance of creating a dialogue with your readers. The second of these posts, Capturing Your Client And Visitor Information, is about using forms to convert your readers into leads for your business. While forms are an excellent tool to convert your site’s visitors into clients, in this post I want to look at using the comment section to do the same thing. Read More