Elizabeth,

Interesting. Just when I think I'n beginning to figure some of this out, it changes. What fun!

This woudl be great, so I wouldn't need to worry if I was using TX or Texas.  I know most states use the abbreviation but with Texas being such a small word, (not a small state) I have went back and forth on that.  I do better in the Google ratings with Texas than TX.

Good post, content has actually been king for awhile..I have a PR0 website that ranks in the top 5 for all of it's keywords and actually generate leads...

Content, content, content...Oh, one more thing it needs to be original content, copying others content doesn't work...

Good post!

I need Google to start reading more of my resources. I don't know what some people are doing to get on the first page of Google,Yahoo,Ask,Alta Vista and the other search engines. I guess I have to blog more and write more post. I like www.about.com . I get some good information from that site especially on Real Estate. Great post.

The metatitle and title (including sub-headings and whatnot) are still important. But it's refreshing to know that the articles or blogs we write are actually being scanned for meaning. I've noticed it in my own rankings. For example, I wrote a piece about dual agency versus single agency recently. But if I enter "dual agents" into Google, it shares the same rank.

Thanks for the info. Good news for me as having your own content is an simplier task for me than figuring all those tricks.

Good information.  You have to keep up with how the search engines work because they do change often.

They do change but content has always been king, the search engine algorithms have just been improved to check out the content better than they have in the past...

Hi Elizabeth,

Thanks for the commenting on my blog. This is interesting, I have also heard from the Scobleizer blog that google page rank is dead. http://scobleizer.com/2007/10/24/google-page-rank-is-dead-and-has-been-for-quite-some-time/

interesting stuff......

thanks again

Brian Barringer

Good to know!  On another note, great presentation at FRED!

That is good news. It's good to see that content will matter more.

Hello Everybody: Most of the time, I don't worry too much about SEO. Once I set up my meta info, I don't go back and change it, but I do include keywords in link boxes and sub-titles, especially the H3. As to whether PR is dead, Brian, I understand that recent changes have affected the PR but it's still likely relevant, it just doesn't seem to carry significant weight as it has in the past. My homebuying site fluctuates between 5 and 6, and I have no idea why, and even if I knew why, I doubt it would make me change the way I do things.

However, About.com searches are now powered by Google, and I understand that About.com works closely with Google. It's a real struggle to maintain ranking for keywords, so I am relieved to see that the user experience and the relevance of the page mean more than crosslinking or keyword repetition, especially considering all the link farms populating the web.