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How does social book marking benefit my website in terms of SEO?

I am in the real estate business, and I am trying to get three key phrases to rank well for azbestlistings.com homes for sale in casa grande az, homes for sale in mesa az, and homes for sale in yuma az.

These three key phrases are cities that I and two other realtors work separately. We all have our own city on the team. Hence, I want to get myself into the first 5. However, I am coming nowhere near page 1 for these key phrases, so I figured from what everybody tells me I need back links.

I work all day long as a realtor, so my brain is not super focused by the time I sit down to do my seo work. Basically working two long jobs, so if somebody says go back linking I say ok, but just where do I do it in the quickest and smartest way since I do not have a ton of time to do it.

Each agent is responsible for working their city or city pages.

Where can I go to get follow backlinks to my site to improve my DA and PA, etc?

I feel dumb asking this, but how to get those links? I have a few places I blog, and I know only a few places for repeat backlinks is not the answer. I need many link places back linking to me.

This is my final thought on the subject matter. Take away us small business people and tech people. We are online playing more so in a business fashion than most. I bet we are online more than most. The people online are not out there google+ this and that. I know I do not google+ anything. I do not look on facebook or twitter for anything. I really outside of my niche real estate and working on SEO do anything online. I will book a hotel, a flight, a room, etc online. I might buy an eBook, etc too. So really what do people do online. Yes, there are transactions, etc every second, but really are they from social media?

I do not know where Photo people go to get business, but the only way I would do any photo work with anybody in any social media is if it was a dear friend I knew rocked at photo work. Otherwise, I am going to bing it, and see what I find.

Google is like the Miami heat. Not sure when the people will turn from google. In 20 years where will google be?

Being social online takes a huge amount of time.

Where are really any of them in any true form of social media?

Time requires energy, time is money, etc, so what is your true ROI on this. How does it impact your bottom line? You are right it is not set it and forget it, but is it truly the most profitable thing you can do with your time.  I would not waste a single penny on twitter, google+ facebook, etc. However, I do enjoy social places (Not social Media) like www.cre8asiteforums.com here I can give and get, and network for a niche thing or things I need and can hopefully give. All social media will eventually die. I love Chevy, I love Pepsi, and the list goes on, but I am not chilling in their social media areas. Those are giants, so a spending less than .0001% of their money there.

Google+ Facebook, Twitter, and the list goes on. They are social viruses. They bog you down thinking you will get something out of nothing, and you miss things that actually give you real ROI. I do not know how old you are, but back in the days the hot thing were these live chat rooms like a craigslist in away- real time micro post going on and you go go PM somebody. These were in like MSN or Yahoo or somewhere. Great place to meet the ladies back in the day. Then it eventually migrated to MySpace then Facebook (where 1:3 people state they are board with it) to something new and just straight up wasting your time. Speaking of Facebook I look at it and say really? Where is the value. Then I ask my kids where is the true value in facebook, and nobody has the answer- then bamb it goes IPO and fools buy it. Just make sure you are not buying into anything with social media outside of keeping a super clean image for business reviews.

Thank you. I made that change. I have been wanting to do it for awhile now. Just scared, but thinking of the long term health of the site why be scared. I think I fixed the title too.  Any other thoughts?

I have a guy rebuilding the site, and it now has that arizona back foreclosure stuff in there. I asked him from day one to remove it. It is on all of my page titles. I am stuck not know where to remove it from since it automatically goes through all of my pages.

Should I change my URL and do a 301 redirect to keep any juice?

Can you please tell me what I can do to improve the SEO of this page. I feel like I am seeing the forest and not the trees or the other way around. I just want to learn from the errors of this page, so I can just simply learn http://azbestlistings.com/casa-grande-az-real-estate-homes-for-sale-in-casa-grande-az

Thank you,

I follow the recommended things from the Page Analyzer or Grader, and I am like position #40, so how do I get to page #1 as a minimum.

Yes, they have back links.

How important is internal link building? What is the right way of doing it, and what is the wrong way of doing it?

I have pages that are low used for example HUD homes for sale in Casa Grande AZ, or a subdivision like Wildwood homes for sale in Casa Grande AZ. If I did a redirect on them to just homes for sale in Casa Grande AZ would I get more than link juice? If somebody actually was looking for Wildwood homes for sale in Casa Grande AZ still be able to find me?

How important is word count? I am using seomoz to make sure I get an A, but it does not include word count.  I am in the middle of restructuring my website and I did not know if the word count is way too low. I am using the key phrase the recommended amount of times http://azbestlistings.com/mesa-az-homes-for-sale-mesa-real-estate

What is your formula that works?