Denver Homes and blogging

I ran a quick search in Google for the term “ Homes”

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The top ten results that Google fetched is fairly interesting:

  1. The National Association of Realtor’s website, the heavyweights in the game. They’ve been around for quite some time on the web circa 1997.
  2. A real estate agent’s site. On the web since 1998.
  3. recolorado.com, a consumer portal to the MLS. On the web since 1998.
  4. American Home Guide is 4th. Not sure what’s the purpose of this site. It’s not a agent, broker, or company. On the web since 2003.
  5. A agent’s site. Around since 2000.
  6. New Home Source, a site that basically allows you to search for properties with limited ads. Around since 1999.
  7. A agent site. Around since 2004.
  8. House.Info allows you to search for properties. Around since 2005.
  9. A BLOG. Around since 2005.
  10. A BLOG. Around since 2006.

Conclusions:

  • The agents who’s site rank well, probably paid a substantial amount of money to get ranked well and to keep their rankings.
  • The 9th ranked site for Homes is run by Todd Carpenter, who runs a series of mortgage and real estate blogs.
  • The 10th ranked site, was a blogging project of mine that I abandoned.
  • Unless you’re site has been around on the web since the late 90’s or you plan on paying a ton of money to get your site optimized, plan on blogging.
  • Google loves blogs!

If you’re savvy agent in and want to meet with me to discuss blogging and what it can do for your web presence, contact me for a consultation. If you’re a total dumbass who whines constantly and expects me to do everything, don’t bother contacting me.

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