See you all around, but not here

But I’m no longer going to be using this website – I’ve consolidated things and you can find it all at my new website.  See you there (click this link – Kirk Salisbury

New logo for Phoenix

I decided it was time to start breaking away from my usual logo, so I made a new one. Check it out.

I’m especially proud of this one, because it’s the first logo that I’ve designed which I feel is all of these elements:

• Clean
• Clear
• Modern

Both in the words of the logo which have some style themselves to it, and also in the shape of the logo, the full message is received.  What’s even better about it is that it is memorable, and easy to use for any of the sites that support for example, go take a look at Buckeye Arizona Homes for sale and you’ll see the similar look adopted, but modified for Buckeye.  Because this is a supporting site for Phoenix, ultimately it will lead into Phoenix’s IDX and you will see the Phoenix logo at the top of the page.  Because the transition is smooth, potential customers won’t feel as though they have traveled to a different website, and if they do it still says “Phoenix” which when we talk about Buckeye, often times we also talk about Phoenix.

All around, this is one of my most proud graphic moments.  Oh, and one last thing about it, notice how the green grows from the bottom of it.  That flows perfectly into the color scheme of the page.  I’m not a designer, but this certainly has those elements of design.

Firefox 6.0?

I’m pretty confident that I upgraded to Firefox 4.0 just earlier this year. Now we’re onto 6.0, and 7.0 is in beta? I’m not understanding the rapid succession of releases.

If you ask me, 4.0 actually worked better than 5.0 because of compatability issues (Google Toolbar for example, does not work on 5.0). Now that we’re onto 6.0 I’ll probably loose other tools such as my rank checker. I just checked, and SEO Book did add support within the first 24 hours. Way to go SEO Book . I’m a little irked by the constant changes.

But from a marketing perspective, I wonder how this is going to go. This is certainly keeping Mozilla in the spotlight, and pretty much any press is well… good press (even if it’s bad press). Maybe enough of those people who have been living in a cave and continue to insist on using Internet Explorer will wake up and change to a different browser. And yes, hopefully for their sakes, that browser is Firefox (or Chrome).

Side note, Firefox really bogs down my system after about 8 hours of extensive use (one work day). The browser ends up using over 1.4gig of memory! That can be hard on a lap top with 4 gigs that’s running several other browsers, and Photoshop and some Microsoft Office things at the same time.

Luxury Homes in Dallas Georgia

When talking about Dallas, I feel really weird putting the word Georgia in front of it.  So yes, I’m talking about Dallas GA, eastern coast state Georgia.

Some areas have luxury homes that are millions and billions (not really billions) of dollars.  The homes in Dallas Georgia which are considered luxury peak out at half of a million, and yes they still are luxury.  It’s awesome that there are certain parts of the states that were hit so hard by the housing downfall that it’s created opportunities like this, so go and check out these Dallas Luxury Homes.

Arizona

Phoenix Homes For Sale

So far I’ve been working on the East Coast.  Well, I’m going global!  OK, maybe it’s not global, but I’m spreading the nation.  Homes being sold in Arizona are going to be from my work that I’m doing on a network of websites out there.  The flagship website that we’re dealing with though is actually a .info instead of a .com.  Let’s see how things go!  Stop by Arizona Homes For Sale.

It’s interesting, when talking about SEO basically we are talking about being #1 in Google.  Well, that’s for good reason, because 80% of searches are done in Google.

But Google is hard to be #1 in.  They have their old dogs that are their favorites, and they just don’t seem to be very nice to the newcomers – they put you in limbo, also known as being put into the sandbox, and seeing results from Google can take …. AGES.  And whenever Google makes a change, you’re sunk.  Some people try hard to become #1 in Google, and then their website is banned by Google for not following Google’s rules.  It would be nice if they didn’t rule the world.

Well, they don’t rule the world, remember they just rule 80% of it.  There’s still Yahoo and Bing, which are pretty much one in the same now.  See for yourself, do a Yahoo search, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you’ll see it “results powered by Bing.”  Way to go Bing, two kittens teaming up to mess with the cat – won’t work very well.  That aside, 20% of the searches still go there (20% of one million searches for a specific term isn’t bad).  And they aren’t hard to rank in!

For example, I’ve been working on a website for Cape Coral real estate, and I just made some place holders while I went elsewhere to work on other sites.  I made a page called Short Sales which literally said “this page will have short sales.  Short sales are a great way to buy a home.” Then over in the Phillipines I had Andre working on creating links to that page.  Then check this out, only a matter of a week or two later, the search term Cape Coral Florida (which gets nearly a million searches a month in Google, so 200,000 in Bing) is #4!  The funny thing is, it goes to the internal page of short sales – the one with only one sentence.

Here’s the moral of the story – thank goodness for Yahoo and Bing.  Because of them, our websites still get plenty of traffic while we wait for Google to come around.  Now, for the sake of making a post and talking about the website, I better have a link back to what I’m talking about!  So go check out Cape Coral Florida Homes For Sale.  I’ve done all the work on it from the very ground up.  I’m enjoying this website development a ton!

Florida is now on the map!

The growth is still to much to keep up with.  Now we’re backlogging ourselves for quite a while, and that’s fantastic – I’ve got plenty of work to do around the clock.  This time around we have a client in Florida, a city called Cape Coral.  This is actually on the west side of Florida, facing the Gulf of Mexico.  So, when a person is searching Homes For Sale in Cape Coral, then this site is going to be their premier site for finding a beautiful one!

Another Georgia Client

We can’t believe the success that the websites have already been having, it’s almost to much to be able to keep up with.  But that’s great news – throw at us everything that we can handle.  We’ve had to purchase more and more websites just to accommodate what’s going on here.  Purchasing more websites can really be a great thing though – you see the more that we are able to purchase, the more we are able to make our network more powerful, and increase the power of these websites quickly as well.

The new client will cover these geographical regions –

Fayetteville Georgia Real Estate

Fayetteville will be our “flagship” website.  Other websites will refer into Fayetteville, and be able to duplicate the look of the Fayetteville website.  This is both a good and a bad thing.  It is good because we will be able to link to the websites seamlessly and have our customers never know the difference.  This may be a bad thing because Google really likes the unique content.  If it’s duplicated, it definitely isn’t unique.

Stockbridge Houses For Sale

Stockbridge Houses is a funny story.  The domain “homes for sale” was already taken, so we found what the next best thing was, and it was houses.  Believe it or not, just as many people search the term houses as they do homes.  Personally I want to live in a house and not a home.

College Park Homes For Sale

College Park – this one might be interesting.  This isn’t a term which many people search, but it seems like it has a decent population.  We’ll see how many leads this one generates for us.

East Point Georgia Homes

Easy Point is very similar to College Park.  There aren’t a lot of searches, but it seems like the town should have a good population size.  The last two may end up being a challenge, because the home value for each is considerably lower.

Social Media to Sale Real Estate

One of the great things about the internet these days is the diverse way you are able to share content. RealEstateMarietta.com utilizes every way that you can imagine to be able to get its content out there. You should have a facebook page which will automatically add content, such as the post which I’m writing right now. Other ideas include Twitter, using a WP to Twitter plugin you can have it automatically post there as well. This post is just a test for the time being.

I then take the content over to my personal blog, such as kirkinternetmarketing.wordpress.com or kirksalisbury.wordpress.com and have that submit to an RSS feed. There is then another free tool which is called OnlyWire which reads from that RSS feed which I’ve created, and it then posts to over 40 social networks which I’ve set up. In other words, in a mattter of posting to two or 3 different areas, I can have 40 extra links to each website mentioned in a post. In other words, this post with one more extra step created roughly 200 links. If I want to expound on everything a little more, I have ways of doing that, and can easily generate over 1,000 links from just a few paragraphs.

Marietta Awards

In terms of awards, Marietta GA is a city that is well decorated. Marietta has received 11 different state and national awards since 2002. Marietta continues to be honored year after year in various categories which show that Marietta is an upper-tier city in an assortment of ways.

The lengthy list of awards are as follows:

• Those awards include the Savvy Award (2007, 2010) – This award goes to the city which does a fantastic job in communicating with its’ citizens, either via social media or another technological friendly way of informing residents such as newsletters.

• Certified City of Ethics (2009) – The Georgia Municipal Association granted this award, as Marietta adopted ethics ordinances back in 2000, following key ethical principles. Those include “serve others, not ourselves; use resources with efficiency and economy; treat all people fairly; use the power of our position for the well being of our constituents; create an environment of honest, openness and integrity.”

• NAGW Award (2007) – Winner of the best small population government website. Marietta does a fantastic job on keeping its citizens informed.

• All-America City Award (2006) – This award was granted to Marietta as they showed reductions in crime, and they have a strong community approach to ordinances and problem-solving.

• Trendsetter Award (2005) – Recipient of the award at the 47th Georgia Mayor’s Association.

• Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award (2005)
  The City of Marietta’s Geographic Information Services Department was awarded the ‘Special Achievement in GIS Award.’

• International Association of Chiefs of Police/iXP (IACP/iXP) Award (2004)
  The City of Marietta was presented the award for Innovation in Information Technology. 2004 marks the first year that this award was presented making the City of Marietta the first recipient of the award.

• City of Excellence Award (2002) – Marietta was judged by a 12 member panel on 14 separate grading sections on issues such as administration, citizen participation, community and economic development, cultural arts, education, fiscal management, infrastructure, intergovernmental cooperation, planning, public safety, recreation and leisure services, social services and technology.

All of these awards show how great of a city Marietta really is. All of it is just another great reason why you should relocate to Marietta GA. View Marietta Neighborhoods Here.