Real Estate is an industry most people have a relatively good grasp of. Almost everyone will own a home at some point in their life. And even if they don't, they're likely to have researched it seriously. Few purchases in life are as heavily scrutinized as a property.
As such, many consumers have a strong understanding of the elements that are considered most important to real estate value: 1. Location 2. Foundation 3. Structure
Foundation: Most folks understand that a house is built from the foundation up. If the foundation isn't solid, everything else can be compromised. The same is true of your SEO initiative, see: Austin SEO. A solid foundation is crucial to long-term success. And in SEO, keyword research is your foundation. Everything you do must be built upon it. Without an analysis of customer search behavior and the competitive landscape of the industry, an SEO program will lack the insight needed to get off the ground. Just like a house with a weak foundation.
Structure: While the foundation lays the building blocks of a solid property, it achieves little on its own. How many people do you know that live on a concrete slab? The value of the foundation is that it provides the base upon which a quality structure can be built. And the quality of the structure is ultimately just as important as the foundation in determining property value. As the three little pigs found out, a house made of straw holds no real value.
As we continue our analogy of SEO and real estate, your company website is the online version of a house, and Google is the both the appraiser and city code inspector. As such, Google and the other major search engines, will assess a wide range of checks on your website to determine its value, quality and relevance. Similar to the real estate market, layout and architecture are important components in the calculation of property value. The same is true for level of materials used in construction. From an SEO perspective, material components include things like:
1. Website coding: Best practices coding and structure is essential to enable Google to properly index every line of code on your online property.
2. Web site content: The old adage that content is king is as relevant as ever. And with the appropriate foundation work (keyword research), your content can be crafted to deliver maximum SEO impact via body content and other on-page elements (page titles, headings, anchor text etc). For example, if you have a page on your site related to web design, the content and wording on the page should be related to this phrase.
Location, Location, Location: The final variable of the property value equation is the address. External factors will always influence the value of a property. Even luxury properties fail to realize optimal value if they are located in low value neighborhoods. Off-property factors such as crime activity and demographics contribute significantly to real estate valuation.
Likewise, circles of association play a crucial role in Google's assessment of a web site. From an SEO perspective, high quality links will ensure your website has a great location. Search engines analyze the links to each website to determine the quality of the location in which it resides. If your site is connected with link farmers and spammers, you can't expect search engines like Google to attribute much value to your property. You're in the online hood.
Want to prove to Google that you live in a good location? Make sure your link building efforts are focused on the acquisition of quality links.
As such, many consumers have a strong understanding of the elements that are considered most important to real estate value: 1. Location 2. Foundation 3. Structure
Foundation: Most folks understand that a house is built from the foundation up. If the foundation isn't solid, everything else can be compromised. The same is true of your SEO initiative, see: Austin SEO. A solid foundation is crucial to long-term success. And in SEO, keyword research is your foundation. Everything you do must be built upon it. Without an analysis of customer search behavior and the competitive landscape of the industry, an SEO program will lack the insight needed to get off the ground. Just like a house with a weak foundation.
Structure: While the foundation lays the building blocks of a solid property, it achieves little on its own. How many people do you know that live on a concrete slab? The value of the foundation is that it provides the base upon which a quality structure can be built. And the quality of the structure is ultimately just as important as the foundation in determining property value. As the three little pigs found out, a house made of straw holds no real value.
As we continue our analogy of SEO and real estate, your company website is the online version of a house, and Google is the both the appraiser and city code inspector. As such, Google and the other major search engines, will assess a wide range of checks on your website to determine its value, quality and relevance. Similar to the real estate market, layout and architecture are important components in the calculation of property value. The same is true for level of materials used in construction. From an SEO perspective, material components include things like:
1. Website coding: Best practices coding and structure is essential to enable Google to properly index every line of code on your online property.
2. Web site content: The old adage that content is king is as relevant as ever. And with the appropriate foundation work (keyword research), your content can be crafted to deliver maximum SEO impact via body content and other on-page elements (page titles, headings, anchor text etc). For example, if you have a page on your site related to web design, the content and wording on the page should be related to this phrase.
Location, Location, Location: The final variable of the property value equation is the address. External factors will always influence the value of a property. Even luxury properties fail to realize optimal value if they are located in low value neighborhoods. Off-property factors such as crime activity and demographics contribute significantly to real estate valuation.
Likewise, circles of association play a crucial role in Google's assessment of a web site. From an SEO perspective, high quality links will ensure your website has a great location. Search engines analyze the links to each website to determine the quality of the location in which it resides. If your site is connected with link farmers and spammers, you can't expect search engines like Google to attribute much value to your property. You're in the online hood.
Want to prove to Google that you live in a good location? Make sure your link building efforts are focused on the acquisition of quality links.
About the Author:
Aaron Kaiser is the Business Development Director for Web Design Austin SEO, www.WebDesignAustinSEO.com, a firm that provides search engine optimization, web development and design services in the Austin metro area and throughout Texas.
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