St. John Indiana

The Gates of St. John is a new community of Northwest Indiana homes. The community was specifically designed to keep up with all the changes that may affect a family’s life, whether it be fishing in one of the beautiful ponds, kids playing soccer on one of the four planned fields, or taking a leisurely stroll along any of the winding walkways. The Gates of St. John is ready for any phase of your family’s existence.

Located on Parrish Road, just off of Route 231, The Gates of St. John opens onto a wide landscaped boulevard leading toward each of the 12 prominent gates that distinguish each of the community’s unique neighborhoods. The entire community encompasses over 700 acres, affording homeowners the space desired by all.

Offering an unparalleled range of distinctive homes, The Gates of St. John already boasts striking first-family homes, luxurious move-up designs, breath-taking custom masterpieces and the convenience of maintenance-free living in some of the area’s finest townhouses and single-family ranch and cottage style homes. Along with visionary developer Phillippe Builders, a third generation family-owned business with more than 45 years of custom home building experience, more than a dozen top local builders are currently at work in The Gates of St. John.

The neighborhoods are masterfully designed, surrounded by peaceful green spaces and top quality community recreational areas. The Gates of St. John also encompasses an adjacent commercial complex housing many desirable professional services such as a bank, a daycare center, specialty shops and dining options, all for the convenience of residents.

The Gates of St. John is well located to afford the best opportunity for all resident school age children. Among the academic choices is the well respected Crown Point Christian School, which offers a top-notch curriculum for approximately 600 children in Kindergarten through 8th grade. Construction is currently underway for the first phase of the Red Haven Christian Services’ Park Place Christian Community. When completed, the 13 acre campus will include independent retirement living in a luxury condominium complex, a future assisted living facility, along with a wonderful community center for residents.

Other school option for families living in The Gates of St. John are the Lake Central School Corporation or Hanover Community School Corporation schools, each of which are top performers at all levels in the State of Indiana. There are also other parochial schools in addition to the on site Crown Point Christian School. College opportunities abound with the nearby Purdue University Calumet, Indiana University Northwest Campus, Calumet College and Valparaiso University, which are all within an easy commute.

The Gates of St. John is strategically located near all of the major roadways including 1-65, I-80/94, I-90 and I-394, providing easy access to Chicago or other nearby Indiana or Illinois suburbs. There are several leading hospitals and major medical facilities nearby, including the St. Margaret Mercy Medical Center, currently under construction in St. John. The Westfield Southlake Mall, Star Plaza Theatre and the Radisson Hotel , Deep River Water Park and the beautiful Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore all provide some of Northwest Indiana’s finest attractions.

The Gates of St. John offers the very best in St. John, Indiana real estate, with the leading edge of schools, colleges, universities, medical centers, shopping and recreational activities, all located within an easy commute. Visit the Gates of St. John and see how Phillippe Builders have renewed a sense of community.

For Michiana Real Estate the first choice is Anchor Real Estate. Anchor’s search results will be improving over the next few months so watch out Michiana! There are some great new pages of Culver Indiana and Lake Maxinkuckee properties for sale. The Elkhart Indiana office has nearly 1000 listings. For South Bend Homes For Sale visit the office at 1807 South Bend Avenue and if you’re looking for vacation or residential properties in Edwardsburg Michigan, call the office at 866-450-5857. Summer is the favorite time to shop for real estate and interest rates are low, if you have the jack there are some awesome deals today! Stop in to any of the Michiana Realty offices today for excellent customer service and the real estate expertise you deserve.

What Is Click Fraud?
In a guest post by Neil Matthews from Fraudulent Clicks we discuss click fraud and how it effects the pay per click campaigns of small businesses.

What is click fraud?
In brief, click fraud is the activity of clicking on paid Internet ads with the express intention of denying the advertiser their desired action be it a sale on an  e-commerce web site or the generation of a sales lead.

Who Commits Click Fraud?
There are two main groups of people committing click fraud, your keyword competitors and syndicated ad publishers.

Keyword competitors are organisations who are competing on the same keywords as you.  They know how much your keywords cost, and they want you off the seach engines so they can promote their own ads with as little competition as possible. They repeatedly click on your ads in an attempt to deplete your advertising budget so eventually your ads drops off the search result.

The second group of click fraudsters are website owners who publish syndicated ads on their sites. Using programmes such as Google Adsense website owners publish ads, and if they are clicked on, they share the ad income with the pay per click supplier. This site publishes in context ads about Real estate, this is an example of syndicated ads. The fraudulent clicker will access their own ads in an attempt to increase their revenues.
Continue reading what is click fraud and enter the competition here

Real Estate Business – Is Your Website Working?

I have always wanted to be in the Real Estate Business, so I expanded my Search Engine Optimization Business to include realtors. Looking around the country at different Realtor Websites is an eye opening experience. From the pre 2k designs, to the fancy “code heavy” content management systems, and now the “so powerful” Real Estate Blogs. The times, they are a changing, and it’s time they do!

My initial observation of the Real Estate Website World is that it’s difficult to find a realtor to work with specifically. For example, I type into Google “south bend realtors” and I’m returned with realtor.com, then property listings, not realtors like I am searching for. So how does a realtor get themselves in front of these new visitors? By targeting the right keyphrases and providing useful and relevant content. Create pages/posts that are most relevant to the phrases searched.

Yep, this means you should be blogging and learning about basic SEO at the least. Think about that search phrase “south bend realtors”. The searcher is stating they would like to see choices of different realtors, not actual property listings at realtor.com. If searching for “south bend realty” the searcher is stating they would like to see different Realty Firms as search results. Learning to do keyword research to find keyphrases that are relevant to you and your Website, is invaluable.

The best way to demonstrate this is using a keyword research tool and entering a very general phrase like “south bend”. Then look through the results to find phrases specific to Real Estate. Now do a blog post about a specific phrase, include that phrase in your page title, post title, page description, and tags. Click here for some tools worth a look.

I hope you find these tools and tips helpful and as always feel free to call for an SEO Consultation. 866-253-8666

I stumbled upon a Florida Real Estate Blog today and thought I should make an example of it. Jack & Cyndee Haydon are a husband & wife Real Estate Consulting team based in Clearwater Florida. In addition to the full service real estate features you would expect, they have more information about Clearwater and Tampa than the Chamber of Commerce. It gives you a real feel for the area whether your buying real estate or not. Jack & Cyndee make excellent use of rss feeds too….check out the site here Clearwater Beach Real Estate.

So here’s the message Realtors, start your blog and write informative info about your area. Be more authoritative than the Chamber of Commerce and soon the traffic will start rolling in. Invite your visitors to join the conversation, keep in touch with them, then turn them into clients. Start blogging today!

If your already a Blogging Realtor, make a comment and share your blog. Please subscribe to the comments so you can check out any new Real Estate Blogs added.

Realtor SEO

What every Realtor with a Website needs to know about SEO.

Search Engine Optimization should begin when a Website is in the construction phase. Each page should be thought out in advance and each page should have a keyword rich page title, a well written page description, and the url (web address) should use the keyword when possible. For example, if you have a page about condos for sale and your agency is in Chicago, a logical page title would be “Chicago Condos”. The idea is to make that page the most relevant to the search phrase “Chicago Condos”. Unfortunately many Websites are already built and this work is yet to been done. If this is your website, fear not it’s never too late.

Optimizing your website for search is not a difficult task and can be accomplished in short period of time with measurable results in 2 – 6 months. Once page titles, descriptions, and url structures are fixed, a link building campaign needs to be implemented. Quality inbound links to your website are like “votes”. The more votes you have the more authority and trust your website gains. Authority, trust, links, and good site architecture all contribute to better search engine rankings.

From the individual Realtor to the Largest Brokerage, the benefits of SEO are clear, Increased Sales! For more information or a free consultation, call Jim 866-253-8666 or fill out the form below and I will contact you soon.

Real Estate in Michiana Area Top Pick

1. Anchor Real Estate

why? “Coldwell Banker Anchor Real Estate is proud to offer top notch home buying, selling and relocation services for all of our clients. Our company has grown through the years and continues to grow today in this ever changing industry. We have developed an edge against our competitors by offering well-developed, strategic programs that accelerate our clients, both buyers and sellers, to the top of the market. Whether you are moving across the street or across the county we are here to help. We are available to serve you with all your real estate needs. We believe in providing our clients with reliable customer service and this philosophy has earned us the reputation of being the best in the real estate industry.” View Real Estate Listings in the Michiana Area

As a search marketer you come across search phrases that just make you wonder. Well this one is “South Bend quick change problem”. There are 39 daily searches for this phrase so it must be something big. So what is this problem South Bend? Is it getting better or worse, are we winning the war on the South Bend quick change problem? Is it the people of South Bend that have this problem? Are they changing too quickly? What are they changing? If anyone has any answers to these questions, please make a comment!

 This post is for the team at Anchor Real Estate South Bend. Here are some free tools to help with your search engine optimization efforts. If you need my services to setup a blog or for seo consulting, call 866-253-8666.

The keyword tool from Wordtracker  is excellent for finding search phrases. Enter a starting keyword to generate up to 100 related keywords and an estimate of their daily search volume.
For comparing web sites I like to use Compete. Get competitive metrics for every site on the web. You can compare up to 3 sites at a time and if you register (free) you can compare up to 5. Note these stats may not be exact, but the comparison feature is awesome.
With Seodigger you can find out for which keywords your site ranks high enough to be in Google Top 20. You can analyze your own sites as well as sites of your competition.
If you want to keep up with Joe Molnar consider adding a blog to your website. I suggest going to Wordpress.org to download the latest version of Wordpress. You can also look at the free templates for your blog while your there. For hosting your blog, Bluehost is the best hosting I have ever had and it’s less than $100 per year.
Directory submissions are very important for your website, there are tons of directories out there but my favorite for both price and traffic is Best of The Web. Note inclusion is not guaranteed, but I have not been rejected yet! Best value is the one time submission.
If you need free images for your website I like IStock Photo. You can find most any image you need and not worry about copyright issues. I have heard horror stories of image and copyright issues on the web.
Please let me know if I can answer any questions about your website, setting up a blog, or marketing. 866-430-7474