It's been another busy week here in Central Florida. Most of my time this week has been preparing a market report for an individual who wants to do a condo conversion. I have researched some very interesting facts and figures. While other markets around the country have already ran through a strong cycle of conversions over the last few years, we could certainly use an influx of affordable, immediate housing that this proposed conversion would bring.
www.floridarealestategold.com is up and running! We put it live Saturday. I have been submitting it to all the directories I can find. I'm going to try something a little different on the optimization part as far as linking goes. It is a great looking site! Linda did a fantastic job with the layout, colors and overall appearance.
Speaking of optimization, www.gregstaker.com is showing as 2nd page on google for "Florida Realtor" and 1st page on MSN for "Florida real estate"!!! The great thing is those phrases are not the keywords I concentrated on. The keywords that I have worked the hardest on all reside at or near the top of most every search engine! The end result has been more unique visitors to my site daily and more email inquiries about property in the Central Florida market.
I have a house listed right now that has termite damage. You would be amazed at what termites can accomplish given a chance to dine on your home. The good news is there are no live active termites, I think they ate themselves to death. Kidding of course....I think.
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redirects and malware and keyword drop oh my!
- Greg Staker Watson Realty Corp. 407-304-0255
Jul 24, 2005
Jul 18, 2005
New website, security and google
We are just a few days away from bringing online our 2nd website. The name of the site will be Florida Real Estate Gold. I hope to provide a venue for individuals to visit and see the latest listings of homes that are $300K and up. We will keep the site updated with golf course homes, water front homes, new construction, condos and other higher end properties. The site will start with Lake, Volusia, Orange and Seminole Counties information and hopefully branch off from there. I'll keep you posted on how it is doing.
The MLS is beefing up security. Today I registered for a key that creates a new password number every 60 seconds. When accessing the MLS I will have to enter this number along with my id. You can keep this new straight out of a sci fi movie security key on your key ring. Now I have more reason to stress over misplaced keys. Stay tuned.
Google is updating page ranks. That is what several search engine forums are saying. I have the google toolbar and have remained a 3 from the beginning. I think a few of my other pages gained a page rank, but I do not follow it that closely. I did notice that my google link popularity went from 62 to 68. I do not know for sure the importance of the page rank bar but I do know every time I go to a new site while surfing, my eyes look at the bar first.
The market here in West Volusia is still going strong. I had an amazing open house this weekend with a terrific turnout. Plenty of buyers out there, who is looking to sell?
Related Florida real estate views:
Holiday homes for sale in Florida
What do you do after you find a home on my real estate site?
Department of Justice launches new website
- Greg Staker Watson Realty Corp. 407-304-0255
The MLS is beefing up security. Today I registered for a key that creates a new password number every 60 seconds. When accessing the MLS I will have to enter this number along with my id. You can keep this new straight out of a sci fi movie security key on your key ring. Now I have more reason to stress over misplaced keys. Stay tuned.
Google is updating page ranks. That is what several search engine forums are saying. I have the google toolbar and have remained a 3 from the beginning. I think a few of my other pages gained a page rank, but I do not follow it that closely. I did notice that my google link popularity went from 62 to 68. I do not know for sure the importance of the page rank bar but I do know every time I go to a new site while surfing, my eyes look at the bar first.
The market here in West Volusia is still going strong. I had an amazing open house this weekend with a terrific turnout. Plenty of buyers out there, who is looking to sell?
Related Florida real estate views:
Holiday homes for sale in Florida
What do you do after you find a home on my real estate site?
Department of Justice launches new website
- Greg Staker Watson Realty Corp. 407-304-0255
Jul 12, 2005
First time blogger, long time Realtor
Hello from Central Florida.
This is my first "real" blog post. I have one other that shows up on Google. That was my "I'm not really sure what I am doing, lets make a blog" accident blog. I had forgotten all about it 'til Google indexed it.
The whole internet marketing venue is exciting to me. I have spent several months working and reworking and updating my site at http://www.gregstaker.com/ in order to provide all my current, former and new customers the best possible online marketing and information source. It took me over 2 years to understand that a website of any real value needs to be more than pretty colors and a cute "catch phrase". Since December 2004 I have been linking, adding content, adding keywords, changing keywords, changing design, cursing, laughing and learning what it takes to have a presence online.
Change is good, bad, misunderstood, ignored and appreciated depending on who you ask. I remember when MLS books were in their dying last days. No way in God's green world of "location, location, location" could a fancy dancy computer thingie provide the real estate customer with reliable information and at the same speed as the good old book could, or so thought the Realtors so against giving up their MLS books. And here we are. Change was indeed good.
Now that I have moved a step deeper into the world of online communication by creating this blog, hopefully in the days, months and years to come I will be able to post here some of the insight, facts, myths and figures of being a Realtor in Florida and the Florida real estate market. I hope it is entertaining and useful to all that visit.
Related Florida real estate views:
Let me take you back, way back, back into time.
Imagine an entire real estate office blogging
Kissimmee agents enter the blog world
- Greg Staker Watson Realty Corp. 407-304-0255
This is my first "real" blog post. I have one other that shows up on Google. That was my "I'm not really sure what I am doing, lets make a blog" accident blog. I had forgotten all about it 'til Google indexed it.
The whole internet marketing venue is exciting to me. I have spent several months working and reworking and updating my site at http://www.gregstaker.com/ in order to provide all my current, former and new customers the best possible online marketing and information source. It took me over 2 years to understand that a website of any real value needs to be more than pretty colors and a cute "catch phrase". Since December 2004 I have been linking, adding content, adding keywords, changing keywords, changing design, cursing, laughing and learning what it takes to have a presence online.
Change is good, bad, misunderstood, ignored and appreciated depending on who you ask. I remember when MLS books were in their dying last days. No way in God's green world of "location, location, location" could a fancy dancy computer thingie provide the real estate customer with reliable information and at the same speed as the good old book could, or so thought the Realtors so against giving up their MLS books. And here we are. Change was indeed good.
Now that I have moved a step deeper into the world of online communication by creating this blog, hopefully in the days, months and years to come I will be able to post here some of the insight, facts, myths and figures of being a Realtor in Florida and the Florida real estate market. I hope it is entertaining and useful to all that visit.
Related Florida real estate views:
Let me take you back, way back, back into time.
Imagine an entire real estate office blogging
Kissimmee agents enter the blog world
- Greg Staker Watson Realty Corp. 407-304-0255
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