Comments on: We cannot Optimize that site http://www.realestateseo1.com/we-can-not-otpimize-that-site by BostonLogic Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: david http://www.realestateseo1.com/we-can-not-otpimize-that-site/comment-page-1#comment-387 david Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:33:52 +0000 http://www.realestateseo1.com/?p=310#comment-387 Jerry, thanks for your thoughts, but did you look at this site? This site cannot be SEOed! Maybe you were on a different AA system than Harry. I don't know. But this site cannot be SEOed. If there is no content on a page, then there's no way to make it rank. Google will not count the content in your iframes as content on your page. Lastly, I must disagree with you. Real Estate sites, when properly built, are not hard to SEO. Systems used by advanced access and other cheap and low quality providers are notoriously hard to SEO. This is mainly because the technology is ancient and was built before SEO was a priority for Realtors. These days, smart real estate agents know what questions to ask of their website provider before they sign on. In fact, maybe I'll make that the topic of my next post. Thanks for the inspiration. Dave Jerry, thanks for your thoughts, but did you look at this site? This site cannot be SEOed! Maybe you were on a different AA system than Harry. I don’t know. But this site cannot be SEOed.

If there is no content on a page, then there’s no way to make it rank. Google will not count the content in your iframes as content on your page.

Lastly, I must disagree with you. Real Estate sites, when properly built, are not hard to SEO. Systems used by advanced access and other cheap and low quality providers are notoriously hard to SEO. This is mainly because the technology is ancient and was built before SEO was a priority for Realtors.

These days, smart real estate agents know what questions to ask of their website provider before they sign on. In fact, maybe I’ll make that the topic of my next post.

Thanks for the inspiration.
Dave

]]> By: Jerry Mosher http://www.realestateseo1.com/we-can-not-otpimize-that-site/comment-page-1#comment-386 Jerry Mosher Sun, 31 May 2009 17:34:35 +0000 http://www.realestateseo1.com/?p=310#comment-386 Real estate websites are generally more difficult to SEO as they are all pretty much hosted through some crappy CMS with a multitude of limitations. From personal experience I can tell you that AA sites can be optimized for SEO. Although it may be a little more difficult to figure it out, It can be done. When I was selling real estate, my Advanced Access site with SEO done by me, was ranking in the top three for my main keyword and in the top 10 for at least many other targeted queries. There are some problems with advanced access, but there are workarounds. The iframes has a workaround that just involves a little tweaking of the url's took me maybe an hour to switch it all over. The nav being images can actually benefit SEO as you can't fit your desired keyword phrase in a nav bar and as recently discovered, only the first link anchor text counts in Google and Google is what really matters. =P Real estate websites are generally more difficult to SEO as they are all pretty much hosted through some crappy CMS with a multitude of limitations.

From personal experience I can tell you that AA sites can be optimized for SEO. Although it may be a little more difficult to figure it out, It can be done.

When I was selling real estate, my Advanced Access site with SEO done by me, was ranking in the top three for my main keyword and in the top 10 for at least many other targeted queries.

There are some problems with advanced access, but there are workarounds. The iframes has a workaround that just involves a little tweaking of the url’s took me maybe an hour to switch it all over.

The nav being images can actually benefit SEO as you can’t fit your desired keyword phrase in a nav bar and as recently discovered, only the first link anchor text counts in Google and Google is what really matters. =P

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