The Last Day Of The Contest

Less than 24 hours to go, and it looks like Google shows Eric Blackwell is still in the lead. More than anything, I am happy Eric has taken the high road with this contest and has used this contest as an opportunity to educate people, build relationships, and raise money for a good cause.
They are [...]

Another Charitable Contestant

I am very happy to learn that the current contest leader, Eric Blackwell’s Team, has also announced that they will donate the contest proceeds to charity, which could be in the thousands of dollars, to the ECO PRESERVATION SOCIETY in Costa Rica. Considering that they are currently #1 on Google as of today, that is [...]

The Power of The People

From what I understand, optimizing a website for search engines can be broken into two main categories:
1) Onsite Optimization
2) Offsite Optimization
Now onsite optimization is the part that you control. The primary goal of onsite optimization is to create web pages/sites/tools that inspire, entertain, service, and/or educate your readers. If you create a website that is [...]

February Roundup of The Greatest Real Estate Agent In The World Contest

Some time in early February, Eric Bramlett had the idea for an seo contest. He suggested the idea to Morgan Carey, aka SEO Guy, and owner of Real Estate Webmasters, who generously offered to sponsor the contest. With a prize of web services valued at over 4k, this generated a fair bit of excitement among [...]

The Tortoise and The Hare

Most of you probably know the story of the tortoise and the hare. The story consisted of a race, between a very fast rabbit and a very slow turtle, and the slow and steady turtle ultimately won the race.
This blog is going to be like the tortoise. I will continue to slowly observe and analyze [...]

More Content Less Links

This site was spotted on page six for the search term “Greatest Real Estate Agent In The World” this evening, and it got me thinking… what if I were to write a post about the contest and the SEO strategies that are going on, everyday for the next two months. People say that Google loves [...]

Does Google Love New Pages?

I’m becoming to wonder if the temporary ranking successes I achieved in this contest, were due to the phenomena of new content being temporarily favored in the SERPs, but then quickly being demoted after a day or two? Although I only made it to the middle of page 2, it seems like in both cases [...]

Why Does Google Like REW Better Than This Site?

Well, I can think of a few reasons, so let’s do a comparison:
Real Estate Webmasters
62,100 Pages Indexed of Unique Content
459,217 Inbound Links
Created 04-09-2004
GreatestRealEstateAgentInTheWorld.WordPress.Com
27 Pages Indexed of Unique Content
134 Inbound Links
Created 02-18-2008
I’m not sure, but I think that REW wins… and this also provides evidence that my theory may have some merit. The theory being [...]

Yahoo SEO Versus Google SEO

One of the fascinating things about following a contest such as this, is the opportunity to take a careful look at the search engine results on a day by day basis and see them update. Today this blog is #3 on Yahoo, yet it is nowhere to be found on Google. Of course the question [...]

What does it mean to be the greatest real estate agent in the world?

Well, since real estate is an intensely local business, I think that precludes there being one greatest agent in the world. That aside, I have certainly pondered the question as part of the process of choosing this profession. A number of the contestants in this contest, which is presumably about SEO, have provided some great [...]