I ran a quick search in Google for the term “Denver 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 real estate 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 Colorado 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 real estate agent, broker, or company. On the web since 2003.
  5. A real estate 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 real estate 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 real estate 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 Denver 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 real estate agent in Denver 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.