How to optimize a website by yourself?
Summary:
Matt's answer:
I’ll give you the same answer, regardless of whether it is real estate or any other industry. I think, there’s a couple of things to bear in mind.
Start with a small niche
Don’t just say, ok, I’m going to rank nr. 1 for blank real estate or whatever your trophy phrase is. It’s probably better to concentrate on individual neighborhoods or individual markets, maybe going for the consumer market is a little bit of a big thing to grasp at once. So maybe you want to go for a small sliver of the market, you know, a niche that you can be well known for and then build your way outward. So, build your reputation up and build your rankings up as you get to be more well-known.
Be creative
If you have the same brochure on your site as everyone else in the industry, there’s no reason for someone to link to you or even remember you. But if you have some sort of compelling thing about your website, that can be a blog with a distinct voice, it can be that you make really amusing videos, it can be that you come up with fantastic advices, look for some unique angle. So, start with a unique niche and try to be creative in how you tackle it, and that can probably help you out quite a bit compared to a bunch of different competitors in your industry.
by Matt Cutts - Google's Head of Search Quality Team