Glenn's Mega Agent and SEO Blog

Does weather impact your lead generation effectiveness? We tracked our leads for a lot of years, however I'm thinking of starting to overlay weather to our database.  I think there is a trend for those interested in real estate to abandon their computers on nice days (especially on weekends) in f...

I just read a blog post by a gentleman, Gary White who is a broker / owner in Michigan about how many of the agents he runs into are struggling with the slow market gas prices and mounting debt.  The picture he painted was pretty grim for many of these agents.  After reading the post it seemed to...

A few of our Phoenix Real Estate Office team members and myself have been brainstorming a bit about the benefits that agents have who join our office.  One of the common objections that we hear is about the split.  If you have read some of my older posts like "Why lead generation should be a corp...

Obviously Trulia has been getting some great search engine rankings around the country.  Recently our Phoenix Real Estate team broke out of their existing Keller Williams office and we moved into our first BuyerTours Realty Office in Arizona.  The KW office was cooperative enough with the move ev...

I read an article on another blog ( http://www.semclubhouse.com/what-is-social-medias-purpose-honestly-its-not-about-links/ ) and it got me to thinking about Social Networking specifically on ActiveRain and the benefits of Blogging here vs Blogging somewhere else. 1) It's the only network of its ...

Having done SEO for Real estate since getting into the real estate business six years ago, it's still a bit of an adrenalin rush to think about dominating a major search term like "Seattle Real Estate" vs a smaller market like "Bellingham WA Real Estate". Having dominated both terms for about fiv...

Since around March 2004 Google has placed newly hosted "real estate" websites in what is commonly referred to as a Sandbox.  Essentially if your keywords include a significant number of references to real estate including your title tags and description tags it is likely that your site will not r...

CMS - Content Management System vs. Blogging for Real EstateOkay... I'll let you in a little secret... It's much easier to blog on SEO then it is to blog on Real Estate. First of all blogging is about having an opinion, making an argument and backing it up with content. It's hard to take a contro...

I don't rant about stuff too much, but this is one that I think I'll rant a bit about.  Maybe I'm missing something here, but what does Fantasy Football have to do with Real Estate?  Well on ActiveRain it turns out that there are tons of Fantasy Football posts and a group or groups dedicated to t...

If you read my last post on AR vs Blogger you may have noted that I mentioned that AR articles are not getting cached while posts via my Real Estate SEO blog were.  This was based on some research that I had done a few days ago and the research still holds true in terms of the way it was done. Bl...