Orlando Florida. What is being searched? Who is doing the searching?

Who is searching for information about Orlando Florida and what are online searchers looking for? The following are results provided by Google Insights for Search BETA for the search term Orlando Florida over the last 90 days in all categories across the United States.

Top 10 States searching for Orlando Florida information

1. Florida
2. Georgia
3. Alabama
4. New Jersey
5. South Carolina
6. Tennessee
7. Ohio
8. Louisiana
9. Missouri
10. Kentucky

Top 10 search terms related to Orlando Florida

1. orlando fl
2. disney orlando florida
3. orlando florida county
4. universal orlando
5. orlando hotels
6. hotels orlando florida
7. orlando jobs
8. orlando florida weather
9. orange county florida
10. disney world florida

Searches on the rise

• orlando news
• orlando florida news
• orlando jobs
• jobs in orlando
• florida mall
• florida hospital orlando
• aquatica
• valencia community college
• orlando sentinal

This Google provided tool could be huge in helping Orlando area real estate and non real estate businesses target the specific areas and keywords that could attract visitors and customers.

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- Greg Staker - Watson Realty Corp. - 407-304-0255

What is Google trying to say?

I just conducted a search of my name in Google like I imagine a lot of obsessive personality types do more often than we should. My search resulted in the usual links.

You can find a link to my real estate web site displayed at the top followed by links to real estate articles I have written for ezine articles.

You can also find a craigslist post advertising one of our homes for sale, a couple of links to this blog and additional real estate information that I submitted to a real estate creative investor site.

All the normal stuff.

But then when looking at sponsored links on this particular search there is only one showing.

"10 Tips to Lose Belly Fat"
www(dot)FatLoss>"

Since the results page for my name is only about real estate and me and assuming that sponsored links follow the theme or have something to do with the page results, I am feeling a bit insulted.

Thanks Google, as if I am not already conscious enough about the few extra pounds I am carrying.

Trying to stay in Google for real estate related terms

The above should be sung to the tune of " lions, tigers and bears, oh my!"

It has been a bad week for my main website. Last Sunday I felt like I needed to redirect a domain name to my main domain. Of course this is something I have never done, knew little about but hey, what could it hurt, right?

Well almost 1 week later, here is the damage. I have lost all real estate keyword positions previously held before last Sunday. I spent at least a day listed on Google for the only term I can find that links to my site, my name, with that ugly "run screaming for your life away from this site" warning just below my site's description. OK, it may not have read exactly like that but it sure felt like it when I read it.

I am not even sure the malware warning was due to my redirect. I have my site hosted with a hosting company and there are reports circulating indicating malware problems. A call to my hosting company and a 45 minute conversation with a nice enough fella who stated confidently that there was no malicious code on my site left me with few answers to my problem.

Then just like that, ok, I did submit for a Google review, but still, just like that the warning label was gone by the next morning. Not so lucky as of now about my keywords, however. They are still in disappeared land.

OK, venting now over.

Actually I feel like I handled this with remarkable calm. I still received a few good leads this week. Yahoo seems to love my site lately.

So what does this all have to do with Florida real estate and Watson Realty and Orlando real estate which is what this blog is suppose to be about?

Well, until I can figure out what went wrong, Google customers for the most part are missing the chance to visit one of the very best real estate sites to search for Orlando and surrounding area homes.

All is not lost, you can still get there from here.

Stay tuned.


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- Greg Staker - Watson Realty Corp. - 407-304-0255

Hurricane Wilma and stuff

This new storm is projected to be here Sunday/Monday. It is still to soon to say if Central Florida will be in it's path. Fingers are crossed. Of course it has already impacted the Florida real estate market as insurance companies are not issuing new coverage so if you waited till this week to get your insurance, you are most likely not closing.

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Conversations in this company, as I am sure in others, has now turned to the real estate market returning back to "normal". Realtors who have joined the industry over the last few years and rode the milk and honey market of name your price , multiple offers and sales in 1 day after listing, will now have to adjust and learn the marketing side of real estate. Full service companies such as Watson Realty look forward to providing the second to none traditional marketing that established Watson as a premier Central Florida real estate company. Sellers will get to see first had the differences between full and limited service brokers.

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This week www.floridarealestategold.com received a page rank of 3. www.gregstaker.com went from a page rank of 3 to 4. That is the good news. The other side of the coin is that google's latest activity that dropped my main site's place in their rankings for some key keywords, is now being seen in my traffic count. Approximately cutting in half the number of unique visitors this week. I am still in a holding pattern to see if my rankings rebound over the next week. Matt Cutt's blog indicates that there is at least another week of activity to come. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

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- Greg Staker Watson Realty Corp. 407-304-0255

Google, granddaughters & guessing

My daughter and granddaughter were here for a 5 day visit. I have commented before that one of the biggest perks of selling real estate is the ability to "take off work" without losing pay or job. What a sweet, innocent and tender girl my granddaughter is. I'm sure she exhibits many of the same qualities and actions that her mother use to frustrate me with when she was her age, but in these older eyes of mine, it all looks ...perfect. They flew home last night. My daughter called me today and said my only grandchild seemed happy to be back home, evidently rushing to her favorite toy immediately upon entering. I guess she kept her mom and dad up well past her normal sleep time with chatter and talk that sounds more like gibberish that an 18 month old child would speak. I like to think if it could be translated, she was telling her dad what a great time she had and how wonderful her papa was.

Google is doing something with search results. That is the buzz online and proved by my loss of position with some very important keywords. All seo forums that I have read thus far border on comments that run from "hang the bums" to "let's wait and see". Explanations of why there has been such a drastic change in ranks are varied but without solid proof. I am going to hold onto the hope that keeping new listings available at the consumers fingertips, providing up-to-date information about the Florida real estate market and trends and not duplicating the same old tired stuff Realtors have been using for years on their site, will gain the blessing of all the search engine gods and allow me to be seen by the searching masses.

I'm guessing:

That being sued by the Department of Justice is not a good thing....(I'm not the one being sued, well not directly, search NAR and the Department of Justice for info)...

More Realtor sites have the Realtor's picture on them than the mls search ability....

That real haunted houses take Halloween off.....

That the reported bird flu case in Greece caught the attention of several Watson Realtors.....

That I need to blog more.........


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I... uh, lost my password, yeah...that's it.


- Greg Staker Watson Realty Corp. 407-304-0255

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?


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- Greg Staker Watson Realty Corp. 407-304-0255