Does Google understand the difference between “Drive” and “Dr” or “Ave” and “Avenue”?
Posted by pete quinlan on Feb 15, 2008
Nope!
Check out these queries by address…
3706 Perseus Dr, Sparks, NV 89436 - With Drive abbreviated
3706 Perseus Drive, Sparks, NV 89436 - With Drive Spelled out
3706 Perseus Sparks, NV 89436 - Now I will remove drive altogether
Interestingly enough, when the city, state and zip are removed the Zillow result is still returned first. Changing Dr to Drive not only removes zillow from the top spot…it’s nowhere to be seen?!?! I have found this to be true with Ave vs Avene as well. Now if I could only figure out why and how to fix this.
NOTE: During the half hour dedicated to this blog post I re-uploaded the images of the search results and now this post is showing up first in the SERPS with Drive spelled out.
Indexing problems
Posted by pete quinlan on Feb 11, 2008
A major issue with many websites is getting deep pages to get indexed….especially if there is no link to the page other than a search funtion. In my case that’s the problem. I have a large number of properties than do not get indexed because there are no direct links to the pages. I want to create a special page that displays new homes for sale in a lsit and provides an rss feed so interested parties can subscribe and view properties as they come available. In order to get these pages indexed I will try and see if I can get this Auburn real estate property indexed externally, before the internal links kick in.
www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.htm?zprop=58382697
Thoughts on inbound linking and anchor text
Posted by pete quinlan on Feb 6, 2008
Admittedly, I don’t blog much and haven’t touched this in several months. In order to get crawled more often I will try and write more.
At any rate, I just did a minor experiment placing a link from my me meager little blog to a Zillow local page. Zillow does not rank very well for any community pages in google. Oddly enough auburn wa real estate jumped to the second page in the google serps? So will now change that link to another small town and see if that page jumps. In theory all of this is not ground breaking , but I must see it for myself what kind of effect this has. I am dumping a ton of resources into getting good natural links to the local pages and I want to make sure it is time well spent!