Posted by Katerina Gasset on Monday, April 29, 2013,
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SEO For Agents
This is a very important SEO To The Top SEO UPDATE SESSION! SEO To The Top Alumni never have to pay for updates. There is no promise that this session will get recorded so you MUST be on the call to get the information.
Important SEO Update for ALL SEO To The Top Alumni!
Tomorrow, Tuesday April 30th at 2:30 p.m.
We are having an important session on the new updates for SEO on your websites and blogs. We have been doing a lot of testing since the panda and penguin algorithm shifts ... Continue reading ...
The Last 3 Regrets
The Last 3 Regrets
There are three last regrets that the majority of people have right before they leave this earthly existence:
- They wish they would've spent more time with their loved ones.
- They wish they would have lived up to their full potential.
- They wish they would have chosen to be happy more of the time.
Spending more time with your loved ones; your family, your children, your parents, your extended family and your friends is at the top of the list. Make 2013 the year that you... Continue reading ...
Start Your New Year With a Boost! Hire a Coach!
Start off your New Year with coaching to get you to the top of your business!
Coaching is a great way to help you get your business on track or to increase your business.
- Some agents/brokers have a self-imposed income cealing that makes them stuck at a certain income level.
- Some agents/brokers have organizational challenges that keep them from moving forward in their business.
- Some agents/brokers have system challenges, they are forever living in a feast and famine lifestyle because they...
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SEO Blog Commenting For Hyper-Local Posts and Market Reports
SEO Blog Commenting for Hyper-Local Posts and Market Reports Google has made a lot of changes to their algorithms the last couple of years. It is tough and time consuming to stay on top of all of it.
One of the tasks that we do is SEO blog commenting on websites, blogs and ActiveRain hyper-local posts and market reports. Google wants to see that we are actively engaged having a conversation with one another in our respective niche areas.
It has come to our attention that the agents that we ar... Continue reading ...
We Would Appreciate Your Help and Input
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Friday, November 2, 2012,
In :
SEO For Agents
We would appreciate your help and input
We created our first sales page for selling one of our website templates. This product is the short sale specialist website that is based on years of what we know to be working in the short sale markets.
We would love to get your feedback as to how you think the page looks, reads, flows and any friendly critique is welcome.
Do not click the “get started” buttons on the page. Those are to go to the cart and they don’t work correctly right now. We h... Continue reading ...
SEO- Google Announces Disavow Link Tool- IMPORTANT
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Monday, October 22, 2012,
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SEO TIPS
This is very important. Google has made a lot of changes to how they rank websites this past 12 months. The latest penguin updates were just a few weeks ago.
But the most important change is the Google announcement that they created a tool called “Disavow Links” inside of Google Webmaster.
This is all the hype and buzz right now in the SEO space and you most likely have been sent an email from Market Samurai or other associations you may have with the SEO world.
Whatever you do, my SEO su... Continue reading ...
SEO Dominating in Real Estate- Broker Tni LeBlanc Santa Maria Short Sales
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Thursday, August 9, 2012,
In :
SEO For Agents
Tni is amazing! Tni LeBlanc is an broker in Santa Maria California where she totally kicks butt dominating page one on Google for her search terms. It is so exciting to hear from Tni when she gets another listing from her blogging and her websites. She walks her talk. The one thing that I really admire about Tni is her ability to understand what she has to do to get the job done. She never hesitates. If we tell her she needs another website- she gets it done. If we tell her we need 10 article... Continue reading ...
Is Your Real Estate Business An UP and DOWN Roller Coaster Ride?
Is your real estate business an up and down roller coaster ride?
Do you live the feast or famine lifestyle that many entrepreneurs, agents, brokers, small business owners experience?
The main reason that we get ourselves into this hamster on a wheel cycle is because we don’t know how to leverage our time.
First you must have a system. All business owners no matter what business you are in have to develop systems that can automate simple tasks, tasks that don’t take a lot of brain power an... Continue reading ...
Top 6 Mistakes Brokers and Agents Make Marketing On The Internet
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Friday, August 3, 2012,
In :
SEO For Agents
Top 6 Mistakes Broker and Agents Make Marketing On The Internet There are some costly mistakes that we see agents and brokers make over and over again in their online marketing strategies and campaigns. We created a report that you can download going over the Top 6 Mistakes Brokers and Agents Make Marketing on The Internet. The report goes over:
- Failing to Plan
- Failing to Niche
- Using the wrong keywords
- Missing the conversation
- Incorrect branding
- Failure to manage your online re...
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Petra Norris | An Excellent Example Of Google Dominance| SEO Blogging For Business
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Monday, July 30, 2012,
In :
SEO TIPS
Petra Norris | An Excellent Example of Google Dominance | SEO Blogging For Business Petra is a broker in Lakeland Florida. Her niches are Lakeland short sales, 55+ communities and German speaking buyers and sellers who want to buy or sell property in Central Florida. What I admire the most about Petra is that she is very organized. She has a list of what she needs to get done in her marketing and SEO and she does it. What she does not have time for, she delegates to our Virtual Assistants. Ev... Continue reading ...
Group Coaching Opens For Registration Today
Get a head start on your business success before the fall arrives. Join us for group coaching which is reopening now for registration for the fall and winter sessions- 1st fall session is August 7th. We cover everything from getting in the right mindset to working on your website. Group coaching is a great alternative for agents who are not ready for private one on one coaching. We have a list of agents who are getting a lot of value out of group coaching. Just ask and they will tell you ho... Continue reading ...
Real Estate Lead Generation- Changing Your Mind Is Allowed
Real Estate Lead Generation - Changing Your Mind Is Allowed Since most of our subscribers have been following us for a while you may well know how important I think and know blogging to be for real estate agents. Blogging is great for building relationships with sellers and buyers. You also know that I am one who believes that blogging does not create massive leads but rather a few 'perfect fit' people who have chosen to work with you prior to them ever even calling you or emailing you. The f... Continue reading ...
SEO Blogging Really Works
SEO Blogging Really Works. You know, it is one thing when I can show how SEO blogging works for us in our market in our business. But it is more important for SEO blogging to work for you in your markets and in your businesses.
There is this post I wrote back in January of 2008. It seems like it was only yesterday but that was 3 years ago. It was called, Fishing for the longtail. This one post has garnered over 320 comments and still gets comments in 2011.
Back when I wrote that post the onl... Continue reading ...
After Realbird.... Thanks For Being There!
Thanks so much for attending Realbird Webinar today! WoW! What a turnout! We had over 400 attendees!
The webinar was scheduled for one hour but we went over that by at least 40 minutes. Over half of the attendees stayed the entire time. I love teaching these webinars for RealBird because they are so full of energy and such a great response from all of you!
I want to thank each and every one of you that took time out of your day to learn more about Realbird and how you can use Realbird in you... Continue reading ...
How's Realbird Working For You?
How's Realbird working for you? If you have a great prospect turned into a sale story share it here in the comments. If you have used Realbird to land a listing or two, please share that also. 
Haven't heard of Realbird? Realbird is available in United States and Canada. On the fence about whether to sign up for Realbird or not? Been there, done that... I waited and missed great opportunities to get more listings and buyer leads for our buyer agents by waiting to sign up and procrastinating pu... Continue reading ...
Realbird Webinar: How To Optimize Your Single Property Websites
Wednesday August 17, 2011 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time. That is 9 a.m. Pacific Time
Cost: FREE! To register for this free webinar, please fill in this simple form:
We will go over how to optimize your single property websites for top search engine ranking and best lead generation.
We will be going over ways that you can use Realbird to get listings. We will also cover SEO tips that you can add to Realbird to get more exposure to your realbird listing s... Continue reading ...
You Are Your Environment- The Green Kind but NOT That GREEN Kind
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Tuesday, July 19, 2011,
In :
SEO TIPS
Are you happy where you are in your life and in your business? Are you reaching your financial goals? How about your relationships with your family, spouse, significant other, children and friends?
How would you measure up against your list of goals and plans you had for your life?
If you are in that great place and have peace of mind kudos to you! That is a great accomplishment.
If you are NOT where you want to be in your life it is time to take inventory of your environment. I don't mean th... Continue reading ...
Next Session - Linking Is Like A Popularity Contest
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Monday, March 28, 2011,
In :
SEO TIPS
You can read more about linking on this post:
Linking....
Last Tuesday we had a great class on Keywords. That class is always about 2 hours long. I know that you are getting your understanding of keywords down now.
Don't miss Tuesday's class on Linking Strategies.
You
can write all the great content you want and you can use all the right
keywords but if you are not getting any "votes" from other blogs and
sites than you are not going to get pulled up by Google to page one
unless... Continue reading ...
Finding The Right Keywords For Your Real Estate Blogs and Sites
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Friday, January 14, 2011,
In :
SEO TIPS
How
do you know which keywords you should focus on and which keywords are
going to make your phone ring with a prospective client? 
The keywords you choose to use on
your blog and website should be determined by who you are speaking to
through your blog and website. This is called your niche market.
Niching brings a better return on your investment of time and money than generalizing.
Let's put keywords into perspective. Different
products and services require d... Continue reading ...
41,000 Agents Can Now Say- I Used To Be In Real Estate!
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Friday, December 31, 2010,
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SEO TIPS
The stats are out. This year 41,000 real estate licensed agents dropped out of the business in Florida since the boom days when everyone and their mother, aunt, sister, brother neighbor was an agent. Just in the state of Florida.
That is a lot of agents!
In the boom year of 2005 there were 144,174 agents.
That was up from just 118,092 in 2004. In the year 2000 there were
67,388 agents. I got licensed in Florida in 1996 a year after moving
here from Washington State where I was licens... Continue reading ...
2011 Schedule of SEO Events and More- By Coach Katerina LLC
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Thursday, December 30, 2010,
In :
SEO TIPS
2011 Schedule of SEO Events and More- By Coach Katerina LLC
We are excited to roll out
our new calendar of events for SEO Trainings, Expired Listing training,
Short Sale training and our new programs.
Below the schedule here is a form
where you can check off the trainings that you would like to get in on
the loop about. This way you can get email notifications and reminders
of the events you are interested in.
January 12th, 2011 is SEO To The Top Q and A class for current members o... Continue reading ...
Google Changes Algorithm- A Form Of Sentiment Analysis?
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Friday, December 10, 2010,
In :
SEO TIPS
Google changes it's algorithms due to a company who was getting Google juice for negative comments from unhappy customers. What happened was the New York Times covered a story and wrote a multi-page article about Clarabelle Rodriquez who bought eye-glasses online from DecorMyEyes which resulted in the owner of the online eye-glass company to harass her and threaten her.
Ms Rodriguez added her complaints to Get Satisfaction- a site where you can place complaints and dissatisfaction with co... Continue reading ...
A little known secret is that there are .com domains available and a lot of them!
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Tuesday, November 23, 2010,
In :
SEO TIPS
Many small business owners, agents, consultants and marketers start their new website, look up their new keywords, get all excited and ready to get their domain name when suddenly they start hearing other people say,
"Well, good luck with that! All the good domains are taken already! All the dot coms are taken up!
Well, that is just not true.
Here is a little known secret- when agents drop out of the business they tend to forget about their domain names and their websites which means that eve... Continue reading ...
Coach Katerina's Webinar and Call Schedule- Mark Your Calendars
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Tuesday, October 19, 2010,
In :
SEO TIPS
Coach Katerina's Webinar and Call Schedule- Mark Your Calendars with these important events, times and dates for this week and next week.
Wednesday October 20- 3 p.m Eastern Time-. SEO EXTREME BootCamp Q and A call and overview of SEO EXTREME.
Thursday October 21- 12 p.m. Eastern Time- Marketing Yourself and Your Listings with QR Codes, sponsored by Realbird. I will also be going over how to use QR codes with Realbirds' new QR codes for listings.
Tuesday October 26- 3 p.m. Eastern Tim... Continue reading ...
What is your BIG burning question about SEO?
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Monday, October 11, 2010,
In :
SEO TIPS
What is your BIG burning question about SEO?
We will try to answer as many questions as possible on our Q and A call and give you an overview of SEO EXTREME Bootcamp line up.
Hurry to get your Biggest Burning Question turned in by going here to post your question:
MY BIGGEST BURNING QUESTION
Make sure you are also registered for the call so you can hear your answer.
I will also answer the top 2 or 3 questions here on our blog so make sure to subscribe to this blog so you don't mi... Continue reading ...
SEO Tutorial For Your Websites- Counter Points To Facebook Featured Post
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Tuesday, September 14, 2010,
In :
SEO TIPS
SEO Tutorial For Your Websites- Counter Points To Facebook Featured Post
By popular demand I am writing this post to clear up any misunderstandings there may be in Google's importance on the web when it comes to your blogs and websites.
Alex Chang wrote a featured post about the strength and search power of Facebook. Facebook is important to your overall networking and marketing online. I am not disputing the relevance of Facebook. Of course you should be on Facebook, of course you shoul... Continue reading ...
Did You Get To The Top Of Google but then Fall Off The Page?
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Saturday, September 4, 2010,
In :
SEO TIPS
Did you just get finished doing the happy dance finding your post on the first page of Google for your keywords?
But then did you have yourself a little pity party when you went back to glow in your pride only to discover that your post was now no where to be found?
It happens more often than you think. It does not just happen to you. But why does this happen?
What happens when you blog on Active Rain is that Google LOVES Active Rain so much and Google spiders crawl Active Rain so much and so ... Continue reading ...
Organic Traffic vs Pay Per Click
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Tuesday, August 10, 2010,
In :
SEO TIPS
Organic Traffic- SEO is not a vacuum.
There are only ten spots on page one on Google.
Are you on one of those ten spots? Do you have more than one of those ten spots? Do you have more than 8 of those ten spots?
The good news is that SEO is back, well, I never believed that it left. But many people in internet marketing did not want to do the work it takes to build good solid organic traffic. There are a lot of people who hate to blog and hate to use the white hat ways to build a website. So t... Continue reading ...
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