Justin Britt

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Aloha Jeff, Looks a lot like our map based searched. I'm very flattered. I did not notice the problem with the load times. I also like the Google search on the bottom left of the map. Nice job. -- Justin Britt Head-Web-Head Hawaii Life Real Estate Services, LLC www.HawaiiLife.com Hawaii Real Estate Blog

Great post Bernice, Finally somebody said it. "Can the marketing message" and stop calling me! I'm a gen-xer, when I'm ready, and if I like you, trust me, I'll call you. Everything you said is almost 100% spot on. So this next bit of advice is not to criticize, rather to correct so that we can all get the most out of our search engine marketing. It is NOT better to build a website with a unique URL for each area you service. It is better to create your "home" pages all within the same domain. So on my site, I service the island of Maui. So I have a "home" page for Maui located at www.hawaiilife.com/maui-real-estate/ instead of something like mauilife.com. You do this because one site will ultimately be more powerful then 3 (and less expensive, Jason) assuming all things are equal including incoming links, on page SEO, site structure, etc. Which will lead to better ranking in the search engines. The one exception to this can be if you can get your exact keyword in your URL (so mauirealestate.com as an example) to take advantage of Google's tendencies to rank exact keywords within URLs fairly high. But even in this case, it is still generally better to keep your "home" pages all on one domain. -- Justin Britt Head-Web-Head Hawaii Life Real Estate Services, LLC www.HawaiiLife.com www.RealAppy.com

@Bob - Great idea, let's ask Matt Cutts: In this post by Matt Cutts on his own blog he states, "Reciprocal links by themselves aren’t automatically bad, but we’ve communicated before that there is such a thing as excessive reciprocal linking." If you are participating in link exchanges solely for the purpose of manipulating PR, this will be devalued and not help you in Google, and as Bob states put you at risk for a penalty. If however, you are a real estate agent in Los Angeles and you refer clients to another agent in San Diego (and vise versa) it is fine to link to one another. This is because you work together and you are giving a link as a vote of merit. Bob will most likely come back and disagree with me. I will not participate in this argument any longer. I would suggest asking the question at Google Webmaster Central and to read Matt Cutts' blog and decide for yourself. -- Justin Britt Head-Web-Head Hawaii Life Real Estate Services, LLC www.HawaiiLife.com