Hi Craig,

There are a few important things to know about Organic SEO. There are "On Page" Factors that have to be in place, in other words your site must be "Google Friendly" (I will do a post on my blog in the next couple of days and list the On Page Factors).

The keywords that you are optimizing for will have different levels of difficulty based on the number of competitive pages in Google and the sites that are at the top.

For example if you have to compete against sites like Realtor.com, Oodle.com, Truila.com or if you have a few older sites that are owned by the larger companies in your local market that have been there for years and have thousands of back links it will take longer for those keywords.The big keyword in Baton Rouge is Baton Rouge Real Estate.

And it's also very important to know the weight that Google now puts on back links, it's actually about 80% of what will cause you to rise to the top for the big keywords.

It is definitely attainable but it will take time and persistence and you really have some great opportunities with social media.

Tony Zito
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Thank you CB this is very intersting information.

Do not leave out BING (msn search).. They are in talks with Apple to be featured on their i phone and search engine stats do not show all the "channels"(suggestive search as an example) that they run in.. I don't bet against Bill Gates as more will be revealed soon.

I am one page one of Google for many search terms some very competitive. Barrington Homes For sale gets me a boat load of traffic at position no 3, but I have others as well. It takes time, understanding an effort. I used to pay an SEO company and fired them they thought they knew it all and yet I am better ranked now without them. My Active Rain blog gets a load of traffic and may jump across to the site.

Ok, as we read each and every article about the New Wave of interaction whether it blog, social, video or whatever, it all points to trying to be found by clients on the search engines.

It says what everybody knows, to be found on the best "Client Delivery System" of our time is where it's at.

One secret I tell my clients is, and I've said this before, whatever everybody else is doing we will not be doing that. Sounds counter intuitive after all the hype and get rich quick schemes but it actually works AND saves a ton of time.

Now after time the message has changed to build your way to search engine rankings slowly by repetitive posting and stuffing cut and paste content with the magic bullet, "Descriptive Links, video, lol-ing and he he he-ing"..
Why is it not working like everybody said it "should"? A: Not Unique

Some say it works for them in what we call micro markets with small population areas, but what everybody needs in this market is Wide Range exposure and trying to cover areas the size of 500,000 or more, a county and many cities.

Gotta blow...

Look ma no links!

I SEO agents names on the first page of Google and almost any of their posts in 24 days or less. If you want proof I'll give you the names of the agents and you can call them direct to ask. Here's one; Type Robynn Eccles into Google and you'll see she's in the top 4. I think its a matter of placement of your meta tags, site submission, and the amount of traffic you get. In March I had over 900,000 Page Views and there are only 200+ agents on the site. Because of the agent updates "Search Engines" crawl my site regularly and update their sites. Having an Active Page rather than a Static one is imperative on the web. My site even brings traffic to the agents sites ranking them higher. So happens that my site is free to join. Best, John

When I write (blog post) on active rain, the post often goes to number one on google for awhile. But integrating the process can be a full time job. I need to make the real estate deals first, then if time allows, play in the media playpen.

Often, I find I am at the top of the first page, but it doesn't last for very long - unless you are continually blogging, and online with various groups. It's a lot of hours to put in, when one really needs to be focusing on the leads coming in.