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Video -Blogging Tutorial -On Getting All Those Fancy Colors and Fonts on Your Blog Posts

Posted by Katerina Gasset on Thursday, September 1, 2011, In : SEO TIPS

SEO Blogging Tutorial On Getting All ThoseFancy Colors and Fonts on Your Blog Posts.

Over the years we must have written more than a half dozen posts on how to add the different color text, highlights, text sizes and other visual changes to blog posts. But as time goes on, newbies who wonder how to do this most often don't know where to begin to find this information. This is one of the most asked questions on ActiveRain.

Here is a video tutorial on using Scribefireto not just add variety to ...
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How Do You Choose The Right Website For You?

Posted by Katerina Gasset on Thursday, May 5, 2011, In : SEO TIPS

There are so many website solutions available for agents and brokers. How do you know where to even start with making the choice of which site to get or design?

The first thing you need to keep in mind is NOT the sales pitch from the website vendors but what is important to your audience- the visitors to your site.

Before you choose a website or do a website makeover you need to answer these questions:

Why do you want to have a website?

What will be the purpose of your website?

W...

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...

Taking SEO To The Next Level

Posted by Katerina Gasset on Wednesday, September 22, 2010, In : SEO TIPS

Taking SEO to the next level- we are here in Austin Texas at the Traffic and Conversion summit. This is the best SEO summit we have ever been to. There is no head fixing stuff, no motivational stuff, just pure unadulterated workshop format with so much absolutely above the rest content. seo for agents

My head is spinning! And this is only the first day! The traffic summit started this morning at 9:00 a.m. and we did not even get finished until 8:30 p.m. tonight. The Traffic Summit starts right up again tomo...

Linking Strategies Coming Soon

Posted by Katerina Gasset on Sunday, July 25, 2010, In : SEO TIPS

Linking Strategies are one of the most important aspects of your SEO plan. Google puts a lot of weight on the links that are pointing to your site. Each link to your site is like a vote for your site. Google gathers up these votes, counts them and from there determines where you fit in the indexed pages and how you should show up on the SERPS.

So while writing good content is the most important part of your plan, all the good content in the world is not going to surpass someone who has good c...
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SEO For Real Estate Agents- Be Careful Out There!

Posted by Katerina Gasset on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, In : SEO TIPS

SEO For Real Estate Agents- Be Careful Out There! There is so much snake oil out there on Facebook and Twitter so be careful what you believe. There is no such thing as some magic bullet you can get or some google potion you can apply to your blogs and websites that will make them magically appear at the top of the SERPS. If it sounds too good to be true, you know the saying, it probably is!

But if you use tried and true sensible methods that are white hat, all above board, they may take a bi...
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Moving Content Over From Our Active Rain Blog

Posted by Katerina Gasset on Tuesday, July 20, 2010, In : SEO TIPS

Come back to this blog and this site- SEO For Agents- often as this is always being updated weekly with new content. Right now I am in the process of moving over all my SEO Tips and Tutorial posts from our Active Rain blog. This way you will be able to find what you are looking for much easier.

It is almost impossible to sort my posts in a logical manner on my Active Rain Blog.
I do write a lot of other content besides just for SEO so consider subscribing to my Active Rain blog.

I just added ...

SEO- Titles- Tags- Descriptions= Are They Even Important Anymore?

Posted by Katerina Gasset on Friday, June 4, 2010, In : SEO TIPS

In today's SEO To The Top Webinar session we are going to be learning about Titles- Tags- Descriptions for your websites, blogs and your profile pages on Active Rain.

Many SEO experts say that "Descriptions" are no longer relevant to organic search. While the premise of this statement is true from strictly a search engine value it is by no means the case in real application of writing for both search engines and the searcher who sees you as one of the options to click on.

While Google moved aw...