WEBINAR: 2017 SEO UPDATE on Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Do you want to know where SEO is heading in 2017? 

Have you ascertained any clues by your changed rankings over the last couple of months?

Yes, one thing you can alway be sure of and that is:

SEO changes constantly! 

There is so much going on with the Google algorithms.

Don't miss out on getting in the know of what you need to be working on in 2017. 

I will go over the changes  in the algorithm we have been seeing recently,

the updates that Google is telling us they are going to be doing,

and what is working for us in real estate!

Click here on this link to go the webinar sign up page-

2017 SEO UPDATE Webinar

After you enter your name and email address, you will be getting an email from GoToWebinar with our login details.

The best way to view the webinar is on your computer- a desktop or a laptop. If you are going to use your phone, make sure you use the GoToWebinar APP that you can download for free from the Apple App Store or your smart phone app store.

I will record the webinar but there is never a guarantee that it will work.

If there is a technical glitch, then we miss out on a recording. It only has happened 3 times in my 7 years of hosting and teaching webinars.

You have to be registered for the webinar to get the recording of the webinar.

So even if you can't make the webinar live, make sure to register for the webinar now.

Here is the link again to go register for the webinar: 

https://katerinagasset.com/SEOWebinar 

 

The webinar starts at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.  You are all welcome to join. 

At 11 a.m. I will move into the restricted access part of our webinar- this part of the webinar will be for Listing Experts Academy members, Fast Track SEO members, Website Clients ( if you ever bought a website from me) and my Virtual Assistant clients.

 

During this session we will go over a really cool SEO ninja tactic you can add to your toolbox for SEO moving forward. 

 

P.S. The webinar account I am using for this webinar is Realbird's GoToWebinar account so don't get confused when you see any messages from Realbird. It is me.

 

Webinar: 7 Questions You Must Ask Before You Buy or Build a Website

Join me on my workshop to discover the 7 most important questions you must ask before you buy or build a website.

Custom Designed WordPress Website that Rocks!

Congratulations to Rhonda, one of my wonderful clients. She hired me to design her a website. She is a member of my Listing Experts Academy and also a private coaching client.

Rhonda Fee owns her brokerage in Pleasanton California. She did all her avatar training which is in module 1 in Listing Experts Academy and then she hired me to help her with her keyword research just to make sure she was on the right track.

We discovered her avatar. An avatar is your ideal customer persona but it goes way deeper than general demographics. We really drill down. We were able to really narrow her niche to match her avatar.

From there I was able to take her logo as the guide to her colors and messege that will resonate with her avatar. It flows and tells her story in a way that will meet her avatar where she is.

It is so exciting to see all of the necessary pieces come together.

Check out her website at: http://HomeValuesPleasanton.com.

We have a webinar coming up on Wednesday: “Website Best Practices” to help you get your website on the right track.

Go here to sign up for the webinar: https://katerinagasset.com/2016-website-best-practices-webinar/

Here are some of the screenshots of Rhonda's Home page:

 

 

 

Webinar: Website Best Practices

Thank you all for all your wonderful participation in these free webinars that I am teaching a couple times each month! I love the questions and more so, I love to see how you implement the trainings in your businesses!

This next webinar is titled: Website Best Practices

This webinar is for you if you fall in any of these categories:

• You are looking for a new website
• You are revamping your website
• You might have a Google penalty
• You have never had a website
• You want to get your blog on your website
• You are going to build your own website
• You are looking at industry specific ( like Real Estate) website templates
• You are getting pricing on custom designed websites
• You are using your website for direct leads
• You want to have a website to get sellers
• You want to have a website to get buyers
• You want to have a website for your small business

We will go over the best practices for websites. This will be a live training where I will walk you through key factors and best practices.

As always, IF you register for the webinar and for some reason you can not make it to the live session, you will get the recording sent to you via email.

The webinar is on Wednesday March 30,2016 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Go now to register:  Webinar: Best Practices 

 

Webinar- Blogging On Your WordPress Website Fast

Free Webinar- Blogging on your WordPress website fast and easy! 

Are you ready to start blogging on your WordPress website? 

In this webinar I will share with you some ways in which you can post to your blog much faster.

• I will show you how to create your blog on using Thrive Themes- super fast.
• I will show you can add images, video and graphics quickly to your blog posts.
• And some more tips and tricks to speed up your blogging process.

This will be a rather basic webinar so if you are new to WordPress this is perfect.

If you are new to Thrive Themes, this will also be great for you.

Webinar:

Wednesday March 9, 2016 at 3 p.m. Eastern time

Register now: 

Free Webinar- Blogging on Your WordPress Website Fast 

 

Reminder: Fast & Easy WordPress Webinar is Tonight

Don't forget to register for this FREE webinar where I will be showing you how fast you can create landing pages, add content to your website in wordpress and a lot more.

 

The webinar is tonight at 8 p.m. eastern time. Save your seat now.

 

See you all later Wed 8PM Eastern (New York time)!

 

If you already registered there is nothing you need to do except get on the webinar!

 

If you have not registered for the webinar yet, Click here to register!

 

See you at the top!

Not Mobile Friendly Today? Quick Fix to Pass the Google Test | What’s It All About?

It's April 21st today. Unless you've been living under a rock, you know today is the day that Google's Mobile Algorithm sets in. 

Actually, there has already been movement in the SERPS for a couple of months now regarding Mobile Friendly sites. 

First of all, it is NOT the end of the world. So if you are panicking because your site is still not mobile friendly, relax.    

There is a lot of “end of the world for your website” rumors and such all over the internet and on social media and landing in your email inbox. 

I am not diminishing the importance of being Mobile Friendly. I just want you to know the facts and what can you do to fix your site if you are not passing the Google Mobile Friendly test. 

Your site won't be de-indexed or punished for not being mobile friendly. 

Google is not trying to punish us. In fact, this is the first time in the history of Google that they have actually come out publicly to announce an algorithm change. That is unprecedented. That right there, tells us that they are giving us fair warning of this change and they also know that this will affect SO many businesses that they gave plenty of time for site owners to make sure their sites are mobile friendly. 

What is going to happen is that if your site is not mobile friendly- it will have an impact on the Mobile Search rankings. 

Google will show the mobile friendly websites first in the mobile search results. They are not getting rid of your site. 

What this means is that Google is going to detect those who are on mobile devices when they are searching. Those results will appear to the searcher who is searching for keywords on their phones. 

So if your site is not mobile friendly your rankings will take a beating. But let's say that your competitors are also NOT mobile friendly:). Well, we shall see what this looks like starting today! It is best to be the first one mobile friendly! 

BUT this does not apply to your desktop rankings. And Google has announced this will also not apply to iPads and other devices like that. It does not apply to laptop rankings. 

What can you do right now, today to get your site mobile friendly? 

Before you do anything make sure your site's theme does not have a mobile update. 
Sometimes all you need to do is update your theme in your wordpress dashboard and you are set. 

This is a quick band-aid that you can do right now if you have a wordpress website: 

1. Go to your wordpress dashboard. 

2. Move your mouse over “appearance”.  

3. Click on “themes”.

You will see these free wordpress themes: 

 

4. Choose any of these themes. Remember, these are not a permanent resolution. But all of these are updated constantly by wordpress. They are the only safe free themes that you can apply. 

5. Click on the theme and then click “activate”. 

Warning: You won't lose your posts, tags, categories, etc. You may lose other data. Always do a back-up of your site first. There are no guarantees that some of your data won't appear wonky or have alignment issues, etc. We are not responsible for anything that goes amiss on your site or anything else happens to your site. 

Now go to the Google Mobile Friendly testing page here: 

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

Add the URL of your site there and it will run a test on your site. 

This fast fix is temporary but it gets your site to pass the test. Then you can start working on getting another theme that is mobile friendly. 

Mobile Friendly and Responsive are not the same thing. 

A mobile friendly site must be usable, legible and available. 

Mobile Friendly means that someone searching on their phone clicks your website they get a mobile version of your website. Here is an example of what that might look like: 

What is important for Mobile Friendly: 

* Large text that's easy to read ( I've been saying this for years:)) 

* The content fits on the small screen 

* Well- spaced links 

* Mobile friendly plugins 

You are not alone if you are not mobile friendly. Over 40% of the Fortune 500 companies are NOT mobile friendly. 

Mobile search is so important today and Google knows that. That is why they are working to make sure that the search that mobile users receive is a great experience. 67% of all searches are from mobile devices now. Google is not making money on mobile search because people don't like the mobile web experience they are getting. Google needs to make money somehow on all this mobile search. 

One way they can do that is to force website owners to make their websites mobile friendly so that the user experience becomes a good one, then Google will be able to monetize better.

Responsive Design: 

Responsive design means that your website will adjust to any screen that it is on.  Your site determines what someone is searching on – desktop, laptop, smart phone or iPad. It also fits to the size of the screen that is viewing the site. That means that your responsive website looks good on a 21 inch screen or a 12 inch screen. 

It is important that your end goal should be for your website to become responsive. There are a lot of great responsive themes on the market. 

Right now it is more important for your site to be mobile friendly versus responsive because that is what Google is focusing on right now. 

However, the problem that happens with mobile friendly is that ALL your pages may not be mobile friendly. The question arises is:

Will Google rank your pages or just your site? 

Right now Google says it is page by page. But we all know that Google changes:). 

If your site is mobile friendly with 50% of your pages but your competitor has 70% pages mobile friendly – is that going to hurt your rankings? 

Google has not indicated how this will affect your rankings.  

What if you know your site is mobile friendly but you are still failing Google's mobile friendly test? 

This could be a very simple issue with your wordpress settings. Check your settings. 

Make sure the box is NOT checked where the arrow indicated in the above screenshot. 

Google bots can not crawl your site in order to even check to see if your site is mobile friendly and worse yet, your site won't get indexed. 

Feel free to contact me to go over your website options. We can go over your site together and figure out your best course of action in moving forward and becoming mobile friendly and/or responsive. 

Join My Free Facebook Group: Digital Marketing Strategies

Join My Free Facebook Group: Digital Marketing Strategies

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You can set up notifications to be alerted when someone posts to the group.

I add posts about different Digital Marketing Strategies for Real Estate and other professionals.

You do need to request an invite. When you click on the group- it will tell you that.

It is much faster to post tips that only take one paragraph or so in a Facebook group than on a blog.

See you at the top!

 

Video – How to Choose the Right Website for Your Target Market – Digital Marketing Strategies

Video – How to Choose the Right Website for Your Target Market – Digital Marketing Strategies. 

Here is the video version of “How to Choose the Right Website for Your Target Market”.

In case you don't have time to read the text version and if you are a very visual person, this may be the best way for you to embrace the content.

 

Here is the link to the text version of How to Choose the Right Website for Your Target Market.

 

Here is the link to the podcast version in case you like to listen and learn:

Click here to go to the podcast post where you can download the audio file.

 

Here is the link to my iTunes channel where you can subscribe to my podcast and listen at your leisure:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rising-above-noise-growth/id810838153

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Podcast- How To Choose The Right Website For Your Target Market- Digital Marketing Strategies

Welcome to another episode of my podcast. How to Choose the Right Website for Your Target Market.  We are going to go over the five most important steps in making the right choice in your website design and application. You can listen to my podcast by subscribing in iTunes too.

If you would like to read the text version of this podcast – click here. There are images of screenshots of different website samples that are not shown on the podcast.

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You can click the above player and the media file will automatically download to your media files.

Or you can subscribe to my iTunes channel in the iTunes store:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rising-above-noise-growth/id810838153

 

In the podcast:

0:23 – Step 1 – Find out who your avatar is, your ideal client, target market, etc.

0:41 – Step 2 – Choose a website design that serves a purpose not your ego

7:05 – Step 3 – Make sure your site is mobile friendly

8:52 – Step 4 – Choose the website platform that is going to resonate with your avatar and be easy for you to use and add content to on the blog post at least.

23:24 – Step 5 – Now that you have chosen which website you are going to run with get ALL your content together at once.