Do you have an appraisal website that generates any order for you?

[moh malekpour]

I am curious to know if any client who needs appraisal of any kind goes to Goggle, Yahoo or MSN search query searching for appraiser of any level.

Internet Search engines, paper or online yellow pages, real estate magazines, newspaper advertisements and public bulletin boards don't seem to be an effective source of getting appraisal business anymore because hardly anyone goes there to search for appraisers.

 

[Aprazr]

X-Site has been my best opportunities as they MARKET your website for you once you have the keywords installed. It goes out every so often to stay HIGH in the rankings. Google me: Gregg White Appraiser Texas and see what you get. Usually in the top 5-10 on the first page.

That should answer. I have tried Yellow pages & it is a waste of money in my opinion......as is some of the others out there. X-Sites is the ONLY one I depend on other than www. Appraisers .com (remove spaces) or this site, as well.

 

[LI-Appr]

Aprazr Have you received any assignments from your X-Site?

 

[RSW]

I have!................

 

[moh malekpour]

X-Site has been my best opportunities as they MARKET your website for you once you have the keywords installed. It goes out every so often to stay HIGH in the rankings. Google me: Gregg White Appraiser Texas and see what you get. Usually in the top 5-10 on the first page.

That should answer. I have tried Yellow pages & it is a waste of money in my opinion......as is some of the others out there. X-Sites is the ONLY one I depend on other than www. Appraisers .com (remove spaces) or this site, as well.

I have no doubt about the high ranking of x-site but the question was that anyone goes to the Google, Yahoo, MSN queries and type any of keywords in your site. I am sure if they types any of your keywords, your site is going to be the first one that appears on the first page but if no body types anything in there, then the high ranking of your website does not matter.
I have a website that if you go to google, yahoo or MSN and type one these keywords, "i want an appraiser in .... my county, i want a divorce appraiser, i need an estate appraiser , I am looking for FHA appraiser", My site is going to br the first one that appears on the first page of google, Yahoo or MSN depending which search engine you put your query on but I never get any assignment at all because no one goes over there looking to find an appraiser from lists of appraisals sites that are listed in internet..

 

[moh malekpour]

Gregg,
I tried google to see if I serach for appraiser in fort worth, tex, or appraiser in dallas,tex or FHA appraiser in terrant county,tex, or divorce appraiser in denton, tex; your site would appear on the first page but it did not. those keywords that you have in your website did not give a high rank to your site texasrealestateappraiser.com. but it doesn't matter. No body is going to search google for appraisers anyway

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

No body is going to search google for appraisers anyway

Not true. I get a lot of calls. A rare week when I have none, usually 3 - 5 and I turn at least 20% of them into work, which is an incredibly high number. My page 'hits' average about 500 per week.

Google "Oil and Gas Appraiser" and see what happens. Now try "Mineral Rights Appraiser". "Mineral appraisal" ...you get the picture. That's why having a speciality really really helps.

 

[Blueprint]

Moh,

There may not be Mortgage Brokers out there using Google like there used to be, but yes, being optimized in the search engines for highly common keyword phrases in your market will be beneficial.

Example: Per Google's keyword tool, 40,500 queries for "Orange County Property Appraiser" in Google on average over the last 12 months and the average numbers have actually been increasing in the last few months despite the HVCC. If I were in Orange County, I would surely want to be the one showing up on the first page!!!

I found your site and it has great Google page rank as it is an older site which will really help you get to the top, yet is is not optimized for the most common keyword phrases used in Google for your "local" market. You should play around with their keyword tool and work on getting your site optimized for your local market. Lots of good SEO books to help you do this on your own. You won't get immediate results but I think you will thank yourself in the long run as markets change and get better.

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?defaultView=2

 

[moh malekpour]

Blueprint,
Goggle is constantly changing the way it indexes the websites. It is a little bit different from Yahoo and MSN. The old fashion indexing used to be Keywords meta tags. Yahoo and MSN Robots are still using the keywords but Google bots does not pay attention to keywords anymore. Its main indexing is the title tags and meta description tags, the content of the page or pages, the inbound and outbound links. Relevancy is very important as well as how many sites are linking to your site. It hates duplicates, stuffing, frames, image links, lost page, broken links and cheating. My site has no bells and whistle. I designed it myself 7-8 years ago prior to google and it was on the top in yahoo and msn and then google as well. I try to use tags that I think people may put in google query when they are looking for appraiser in my area. I put myself in client's shoes and say what I would put down in the goggle query if I want a divorce appraiser or an estate appraiser. I would put " divorce appraiser in Orange County, CA" or "I need an appraiser for estate purpose in Orange County, CA", or " FHA appraiser for Orange County, CA" or "appraiser for orange county, ca". What is the most common phrase that clients put in the goggle query when they are looking for appraisers in your area? I take care of my site SEO and can chage anything at any time including the meta tags. There are many Google SEO books and sites out there but the one that is important and real is the Google guidelines which is very simple.

 

[Vernon Martin]

The Google AdWords feature quantifies the total number of searches for each search term. This is a great help and revelation. For instance, it shows that the term "subdivision appraisal" is searched much more often than "subdivision appraiser". So, on my web site, I am no longer a subdivision appraiser, but I do subdivision appraisals.