Comments on: Where Do Real Estate Citations Come From? http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=225 SEO, Local Search Optimization and Website Design for small web business owners Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:23:26 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Local Search - All 2009 Nominees » SEMMYS.org http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=225&cpage=1#comment-119609 Local Search - All 2009 Nominees » SEMMYS.org Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:14:17 +0000 http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=225#comment-119609 [...] Where Do Real Estate Citations Come From? Miriam Ellis, SEO Igloo | 8/13/08 [...] [...] Where Do Real Estate Citations Come From? Miriam Ellis, SEO Igloo | 8/13/08 [...]

]]> By: admin http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=225&cpage=1#comment-93954 admin Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:02:08 +0000 http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=225#comment-93954 Glad you liked this one, David! Right - in the second scenario, where it's coming from a third party, I can see NO problem with that. It's the first scenario I'm just not sure about because of things I've seen in the organic SERPs in the past. I mean, if you bought 40 domains and pointed links from them to mywebsite.com, just for that purpose, Google has historically had a problem with that. So, it's the organic side I'm concerned with. For Local, it seems like a very rich source of citations, with little danger of there being a problem. I'm glad to get your opinion on this, as ever! Miriam Glad you liked this one, David!

Right – in the second scenario, where it’s coming from a third party, I can see NO problem with that.

It’s the first scenario I’m just not sure about because of things I’ve seen in the organic SERPs in the past. I mean, if you bought 40 domains and pointed links from them to mywebsite.com, just for that purpose, Google has historically had a problem with that. So, it’s the organic side I’m concerned with. For Local, it seems like a very rich source of citations, with little danger of there being a problem.

I’m glad to get your opinion on this, as ever!
Miriam

]]> By: David Mihm http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=225&cpage=1#comment-93920 David Mihm Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:11:24 +0000 http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=225#comment-93920 Miriam, this is a FANTASTIC post. I've noticed the exact same thing but it never occurred to me to blog about it :) Your point about splitting content up on multiple websites is SO interesting. It IS smart business, and good for Google's Local algo, but bad for the organic algo. I think it's going to be awfully hard for Local to filter out sites published by the same company...especially if they're hosted on different servers, etc. Another scenario is that a ton of sites for DIFFERENT agents are produced by the same company (I'm thinking someone like ListingProducer in this case)...there's no reason those should all be filtered... Miriam, this is a FANTASTIC post. I’ve noticed the exact same thing but it never occurred to me to blog about it :)

Your point about splitting content up on multiple websites is SO interesting. It IS smart business, and good for Google’s Local algo, but bad for the organic algo. I think it’s going to be awfully hard for Local to filter out sites published by the same company…especially if they’re hosted on different servers, etc.

Another scenario is that a ton of sites for DIFFERENT agents are produced by the same company (I’m thinking someone like ListingProducer in this case)…there’s no reason those should all be filtered…

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