East Bay Real Estate Team Heidi Long and Dana Cordeiro, Top Producing agents in the East Bay along with Jerry Long and Emma Morris, the www.LongCordeiroTeam.com.

The clients wanted to start out the year with a fresh new look for the team website, with a Fresh Approach to East Bay Real Estate, that included a blog with great information about East Bay Neighborhoods, the East Bay Real Estate Market and some fun topics on “What’s for Dinner” and “Out on the Town”.

Drop by and check it out – www.LongCordeiroTeam.com

Google made an interesting move by rolling out individual “place pages” for every property that’s listed in Google Maps. A unique page for every listing that includes photos, a map (including Street View) property details, directions, transit information and more – basically, it’s a listing detail page.

“Clicking the “more info” link next to a listing takes you to a faster, easier-to-read page that gives you all of the information we have about a listing: photos, inspection times, videos, details, a Street View preview and nearby public transit information if available, allowing you to quickly find the listing you want and click through to the sources of the listing.” – Google

Just another reason to make sure your listings are getting on Google Maps – Google Real Estate

IDX Property Search and Lead Capture from iHomefinder on Vimeo.

All I can say is Thank you Google for finally making it official.

I am by no means a pro at SEO but I do my best to stay on top of what can help and what can hurt your search engine rankings. And I can’t tell you how many times while discussing on-site SEO that I will hear “but I have all of the keywords in the meta tag” why isn’t it working?!” I wish it were that easy.

But don’t get this wrong. This is not the key WORDS in the content – As I have been saying all along ..
Keywords don’t need to be used in your meta tags, but they need to be used in your content, title and header tags.

Read more about how “Google doesn’t use the “keywords” meta tag in our web search ranking” on the “Official Google Webmaster Blog” (can’t get more official than that).