Real Estate in Barrington & The Northwest Suburbs: SEO Success in Just Two Days - Google Loves Me! Real Estate in Palatine is Number Nine.

SEO Success in Just Two Days - Google Loves Me! Real Estate in Palatine is Number Nine.

Back in April this year I took on a task which had all the makings of success over a wide geographic area for the niche relocation. The problem was it was just too big for one person to handle so last weekend I decided, with a few tears, to bench the project. No, not thrown away just benched. Maybe one day I'll have the financial ability to start it up again, who knows.

Have a nice rest Relocation House Hunters

I did not want to waste the money I had spent on the design and the blog so what to do. Well as my Barrington site has been so succesful in the search engines and really now beginning to increase leads and clients, it seems a good idea to target a new geographic area. So I spent last Saturday doing my keyword research and formulating the plan. Enter Real Estate in Palatine. I already sell homes in Palatine so it seems a logical choice for a new site.

Why a new site? Well the keywords in the title puts me leaps ahead of the competition and in a minute I'll reveal the results.

Yesterday was spent moving the design to the new domain: RealEstateinPalatine.com moving the blog, the IDX, a new logo, my attached Posterous blog for photos, that's a lot of coding, some I did, some I had help. By the end of the day, voila!

is live. I believe there is one home page glitch to be taken care of and a few more may become apparent as I test the site. So having added a redirect from old to new, to help Google visit a little faster I am sitting happy this morning to see that Google loves me. Yesterday new site-not indexed. This morning 1 day old site with 8 pages indexed.

So how well did my keyword choice do in the domain name? I chose Real Estate in Palatine. I already have Real Estate in Barrington and Real Estate Lake Zurich, the third area I cover. Most people search for Palatine real estate and that domain was first taken but also really hard to rank. So I looked at the keywords and found that Real Estate in Palatine has what I call the middle of the road searches. Not huge but not small either.

Today Google decided my new site fit that search term so well I am on page one at position number nine (9).  Boy does that feel good. Of course I know it will fluctuate for a while as I build out the site's content. We had about 200 pages to go live with but most of that is Wordpress and IDX, it now needs content about Palatine, photos and more blog posts. Gives me something to do over the quiet winter months.