Announcing The Launch Of My Palatine Word-press Web Site Blog - Please Visit Google... You Can Crawl My IDX
There is no doubt that it takes considerable time to put together a web site and then once you have launched it the SEO work commences to pull your site up the search engines results pages until you get to the top. One of the issues we have with some of the real estate template sites is that the IDX solutions have to be framed in and therefore the property pages cannot be seen by the search engines.
As a result of being much busier now than before I do not have the time to spend hours and hours working on web sites and blogs and so I made the decision to use Virtual Consultants for my new web sites. Having been burned before by a company professing to be the top SEO company for Realtors, I set about learning about SEO. That done I could source the right people to do my new sites.
My Palatine Word-press blog site has been designed and written by Kevin Harper of www.topsellersites.com It has been in the works for a number of weeks and there are still pages that need to be written together with the press release but it was time to publish it and let Google have a crack at it. We used Word-press as the platform, me having decided that Joomla was out of my comfort zone, with the Agent Press theme and Kevin customized the look and added the IDX so that all the pages of listings and individual listings can be crawled by the search engines. Google - you are formally invited.
This web site is a geographically targeted web site blog aimed at providing real estate information and listings to the hundreds of buyers and sellers that close sales and purchases in Palatine IL every year. Geographic is not the strongest way to target real estate for Realtors but Kevin Harper has seen fantastic results with some of his sites, one that comes to mind is Sellidaho.com for Don Wixom.
The advantages of a Word-press site over a template site are becoming more and more clear. You can have static pages as well as a blog with posts running side by side in harmony. Google's bot loves Word-press, it's easy for the spider to roam around the site gathering it's html information to present to the Internet buyers and sellers. I love the fact that the spiders are going to see hundreds of Palatine listings on the site as well as many hundreds more for the nearby towns. With a domain name that's spot on for a highly searched key phrase it should return some awesome results for searches as it climbs to the top.
My Palatine site is one of 3 new sites I am launching and once it starts producing leads will provide business for both myself and a new buyers agent I will hire. Palatine real estate is still active with short sales, bank owned homes, condos, townhomes, new construction, luxury homes even some with acre lots. Inverness shares the same zip code of 60067 and offers more in the luxury market.
I am excited to launch my new Palatine Word-press web site blog and thankful that Kevin is the SEO king for this one! Lake Zurich is to follow but that's a much smaller project and will provide leads for another agent on my team-Eileen.The third is part of Michael Russer's Online Dominance program which I joined last month and will be targeting the specific market of luxury buyers. That's somewhere in the future when I have finished the course.
At the end of the day my plan is to be very busy in 2011 and the use of Virtual Consultants and Virtual Assistants is moving me forward at light speed. So come on Google, you're part of my team of virtual help, visit my new Palatine web site and tell me if you like it.
Corinne Guest
Barrington, IL Realtor®/ Royal Advocate Realty
Info@CorinneGuest.com
(847) 363-3686
More information can be found at my Barrington IL Real Estate website. Research all the villages of Barrington, Deer Park, Inverness and Tower Lakes. Search all the Barrington Homes For Sale with no registration required. Sign up for new listings by email.
Providing buyers agent real estate services in the communities of the Barrington Villages, Palatine, Lake Zurich, Hawthorn Woods, Long Grove and Kildeer.
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Corinne Guest
Realtor & Managing Broker
Royal Advocate Realty, Barrington
Call today 847-363-3686 for real estate and relocation service.
Suburban Real Estate - Lake Zurich, Hawthorn Woods, Kildeer, Long Grove
I'm getting ready to go this route and had been searching teh internet for the best solutions so this info will certain;y help me. There is so much out there to consider is was becoming overwhelming. Thanks and I look forward to perusing your site!
Woo Hoo! Very Nice! Is this a modifed AgentPress site? That's what I'm using.
Corinne - Congratulations on setting up your WordPress blog and best wishes for lots of Google Juice on it.
Corinne - I think wordpress is the way to go. I will be setting mine up here in the next few weeks.
Thanks everyone, feel free to contact Kevin, he is awesome.
I love it Corinne... With your SEO knowledge, yours will will be the first on Google in no time...