http://www.xislegraphix.com/blog Discussing Small Business Websites Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:58:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Even though the real estate market in Florida is still struggling, some realtors are using this time to get ready for the eventual increase in activity and sales. We have just opened a new website for Renée Ramsay and Karen Brandner, a team of realtors in the New Smyrna Beach, ... http://www.xislegraphix.com/blog/archives/new-smyrna-beach-real-estate-website/ We have a colleague who is aces at link building. She was recently approached by the webmaster of a site asking to exchange links between two of their sites that are dedicated to the same subject, charter fishing. He wanted to put a link on his links page to her ... http://www.xislegraphix.com/blog/archives/smart-contextual-linking/ We are going to do an experiment. We have created a simple website at www.franklin-nc-homes-for-rent.com and optimized the page for the search term, franklin nc homes for rent. We have registered the site with Google Webmaster Tools. The only link to it that we are creating is the one on ... http://www.xislegraphix.com/blog/archives/on-page-seo-vs-inbound-linking/ Being listed in Google's search engine is free, and if your site is relevant, useful, and search engine optimized, you will show up near the top of the search results for your important key words or phrases. What needs to be kept in mind, is that Google makes no guarantee ... http://www.xislegraphix.com/blog/archives/are-all-your-eggs-in-the-google-gift-basket/ Having quality, relevant inbound links to your website from other websites is one of the most important strategies to creating high rankings in the search engines for your key words or key phrases. High quality can mean that the linking site also gets good rankings and its pages have moderate, ... http://www.xislegraphix.com/blog/archives/should-i-link-to-my-competitors/