Steven Ayres's (realestategrowth) Blog

Looking for a quick fix that will improve your rankings? Take a look at your title tags. A title tag is the line of text that is normally displayed at the top of the browser window.  Title tags are arguably the most important SEO tags for any site. For most search engines, the maximum length of a...

The good news: Talent is meaningless. You can be world-class at anything. The bad news: The formula requires absolute commitment: daily and pleasureless, intense output of effort, and fifty to eighty hours a week of total work-related time… for a decade. You must always get a full-night’s sleep. ...

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Like any other Internet born marketing medium, social networking has lowered the barrier to entry for many Realtors that want to promote their businesses online. So yes, it is cheap and easy to go on to something like Facebook and set up a new account, but hard to get results that translate in im...

O.K.  This is super text heavy, but a phenomal article written by Googleranking.com and definitely worth reading if you are serious about learning more about improving page rank through links.  I will even break up the reading with a picture of a cute puppy to make it easier. The calculation of l...

The “bounce rate”, according to Google Analytics, is “the percentage of single-page visits (i.e. visits in which the person left your site from the entrance page). Bounce Rate is a measure of visit quality and a high Bounce Rate generally indicates that site entrance (landing) pages aren’t releva...

This chart from SEO Book is one of the most concise desriptions i have found on how to drive new business online.

I just had another encounter today with a unfortunate individual who let thier IT guy design and "perform SEO" on thier site.  It is a funny thing, but I have never come across an IT type who can do either of these things to any proficient degree. I don't think that either should be left to chanc...

Well, we almost survived winter and we are headed into lawn season.  The lawn, like some other crucial components can have a deep impact on first impressions.  We are bringing you a few law care tips from the guys at Green Stuff Lawn, the Minneapolis Lawn Care experts.  This is the quickest way t...

Always write for people first. Position keywords after the post is written. Keep the number of individual keywords limited. Avoid using a given keyword too often in a document. The Internet is not a first-grade practice reader. Position keywords in titles, headers, early in text, and on new page...