Ok, now you’ve got me curious.

I ran a WebCEO ranking analysis on the site. It took keywords from the home page and meta tags and I added other ones (the last 4 on the list). The report is here: http://www.locallinks.com/utah_ranking.htm. The ranking report looks at the first 30 search engine results for each keyword phrase.

Except for the one ranking for “Utah real estate”, I’m not seeing how anyone would find this site. What search terms are people using??

Also, you have 2 forms front-ending access to the MLS search and online home valuation. These forms appear to not do any verification of email address. What percentage of the “leads” you are quoting that this site is generating are bogus (either bad email or phone number)? The site also doesn’t seem to be friendly to return visitors. Do you have to fill out the form each time you want to search the MLS and are these counted as leads again?

Nothing personal Suzanne, I’d ask the same questions to any vendor making claims about lead generation.

Also, Suzanne is correct in bringing up the age of a domain as something that search engines (Google) looks at.  If a SEO company gives you examples of their work, check the age of the site. You can either do a Whois to see when the domain was registered or use a tool like this onehttp://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/site-analysis.html which will give you the date that archive.org has for the site. If a SEO company is saying they can get your site ranked high and your site is new, make sure you ask the SEO company for examples of other sites they have successfully ranked well that are as new as your site/domain. This is not to say that new sites can’t get good rankings. Just make sure the SEO company is able to show you that they’ve been able to do it for others.

Keith Byrd

www.SloCountyHomes.com