Many of my co-workers and friends who own and operate mortgage websites have taken a major SEO penalty on the search engines from Google. This SEO Google Penalty is not just from one or two mortgage website owner but ALL LOAN OFFICERS across the board, FROM THE EAST, MIDWEST, and WEST COAST. Can anyone who is an expert on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) give us the most recent Google Algorithm Updates? What do we have to do to get our RANKINGS back to first page on the SEARCH ENGINES? Who is an expert in SEO? I hired sel-proclaimed SEO GURU NEIL PATEL (My Mortgage Company) and Neil Patel is absolutely 💯 WORTHLESS. DON’T recommend Neil Patel. Neil Patel is a glorified used car salesman who is only a marketer of Neil Patel and a trash compactor of your hard earned dollars. Any answers to my questions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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The Importance of SEO | Search Engine Optimization

SEO is the technique of optimizing a website or online content to improve its visibility and ranking on search engine results pages (SERPs).

Google introduced new tools for website owners, including owners of social media sites and discussion forums, who want to make a higher presence of their content in Google’s search results. The algorithm changes includes Google’s prioritizing of user-generated web content over SEO-optimized junk, which has increasingly become a problem on today’s modern web. In May, Google first rolled out a new “Perspectives” search filter that would highlight posts from discussion boards like Reddit, Q&A sites like Quora and social media platforms in its search results. The feature, which first arrived on mobile, was launched to desktop users earlier this month along with other search changes.

The company also said its ranking algorithm was being updated to push more of these firsthand perspectives higher in search results so they’re easier to find.

With the new tools, Google is giving websites hosting first-person perspectives the ability to signal to the search engine how their data is structured so their content will be featured both accurately and “as complete as possible” in Google’s Search Results, the company explains.

For example, with the new ProfilePage markup, any site where creators post content will be able to showcase their creators’ profiles directly in Google Search results, including information like their name, handle, profile photo, follower count or the popularity of their content. Both Google’s Perspectives feature and its Discussions and Forums feature can make use of this type of markup.

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What are the latest Google algorithm changes and how will it affect website organic traffic?

How important is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? How important is SEO in digital marketing? What is SEO and why is it important? How does SEO work? What is the main purpose and benefits of SEO? What is the most important thing for SEO?

Stayed tuned, people. We create, design, and develop a one-stop lending shop mortgage loan officer website. This one-in-all marketing-support-operations-business-development mega website is for select loan officers who want to be in the top 20% of the nation and belong to a team of winners. Many talented goal-oriented folks want to become top-producing loan officers but do not have the guidance, training, tools, and direction to lead them there. After a decade of research and development, making thousands of fixes, and making thousands of hours of mistakes, my team and I have mastered a mega one-stop lending shop. Training a loan officer is one of the most difficult tasks there is. There is no sure proof training program in the market place. The best way to learn to become a successful loan officer is by getting trained by a mentor. Training a loan officer is like training an attorney. Say a young lawyer graduates from an IVY LEAGUE LAW SCHOOL like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Stanford Law School. The young, newly law school graduate masters the Bar Exam and is now licensed to practice. What NOW? How is he or she going to represent clients in court, let along simple parking tickets or simply real estate closings? Same with loan officers. You will be clueless and lost. So the best way to train a young recruit loan officer is to take a few steps backward to go forwards. A newly licensed loan officer should not even do a single loan until they have processed three to six loans themselves under the supervision of a loan processor. The loan officer will never become a master mortgage processor and I do not recommend they be one if they want to originate loans, but loan officers will be working very closely with mortgage processors on every single loan. To this day, most loan officers are clueless on how mortgage processing works and often bitch and degrade mortgage processors if shit does not go your way. Master processing, at least how it work, before you proceed to originating. In the system we will have on http://www.viralwebsitedevelopers.com, we will have a detailed training section on processing and how mortgage processing works. Once you have the basics on how mortgage processing works, the next step is to learn origination. So one of the frequently asked questions is do I need to memorize all the mortgage guidelines before proceeding. The answer is NO. There is no way you will learn and know all of the FHA, VA, USDA, FANNIE, FREDDIE, and NON-QM mortgage guidelines. Learning the guidelines is not enough. Every lender has their own lender overlays. Lender overlays are additional mortgage guidelines above and beyond the minimum guidelines of HUD, VA, USDA, FANNIE MAE, and FREDDIE MAC. However, every loan officer should know the basic agency guidelines on government and conventional loans. Everything you need to know, you can find it on http://www.gustancho.com. AGAIN, loan officers should get familiar with the basic guideline but no need to memorize it. You will go back to it often. Again, all the guidelines will be on the master website from Viral Website Developers. Remember, our mission at Viral Website Developers is to create a one-stop mortgage lending online shop with your very one virtual digital media website. So, the next step for brand new loan officers are loan officers transferring to Gustan Cho Associates on a branch level or an independent loan officer sponsored by a member of the Gustan Cho Associates family is getting leads. Again, your newly assigned one-stop shop lending virtual mega loan origination website will have an organic lead generation system which will grow and add more value as it seasons with age and content. I will continue this part at the next time I am able to continue.

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Online users are more inclined to click on organic search results than paid Google Ads and other paid advertisements. To maximize getting organic traffic from SEO, you need to create content that benefits users with strong keywords on a high domain authority website, online communities, and forums. However, Google updated its search engine algorithm recently where online communities and forums with high domain authority have a lot more SEO power versus blogs from websites. The reason behind this is there is only one authority (the blog author) that has full control on blogs and once the blog is published, it become aged content. However, on online communities and forums, the author of the topic on the FORUM posts the topic (Keyword and/or Keywords) and publishes the content. As the time pass, you have participants to the post you posted. Each time a user posts a reply, feedback, and adds content to the original post, the content becomes updated content and benefits the community. Therefore, Google and other search engines will give higher domain and page authority on forums versus blogs. This does not mean that you should not keep your website and continue posting blogs. Blogs is the foundation of you increasing your domain and page authority of your website. However, it takes longer and time to create and build a website with a solid foundation. Use online communities, and forums to compliment your website and become guest writer on other high domain authority websites with a do-follow back link to one of your articles. Forums are great in building do-follow back-links. We will continue more on this important SEO tool so you brand yourself and have Google and other search engines to recognize you as an authority in your field and not spam.

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There were a few instances when my website got a Google Penalty. A Google Penalty under my understanding is when Google unranks your Keywords thus affecting your organic traffic. Many Keywords will go from first page to disappearing

Any of you have more specific information about getting a Google Penalty and the reasons why and how you fix it. Thank you in advance.

What is the best way to market yourself as a mortgage loan originator through organic leads and not have to hire expensive lead generation companies during these tough times.

Here is a 30 minute video explaining how to beat your competitors Search Engine Optimization organic traffic

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What is SEO for your website?

An XML sitemap is an important tool for search engine optimization (SEO) for a few key reasons:

1. Indexing: A sitemap helps search engines like Google and Bing to better understand the structure of your website and more efficiently crawl and index all of your site’s pages. This can help ensure all of your content gets discovered and indexed.

2. New content discovery: When you update your sitemap as you publish new content, search engines can more quickly find your latest blog posts, products, services, etc. This helps get your new content indexed faster.

3. Page priority: A sitemap allows you to indicate the relative priority of each URL on your site. This signals to search engines which pages you deem most important for indexing and ranking purposes.

4. Eliminates crawling issues: By mapping out all URLs on your site explicitly, you can minimize issues search engines might have discovering pages, like pages deep in your site architecture. This ensures search bots don’t miss important content.

5. Provides metadata: In a sitemap, you can include optional metadata for each URL like when the page was last updated, how often the page changes, alternate language pages, and more. This extra data can aid search engines in understanding your site.

So in short, an XML helps search engines efficiently crawl your site, ensures all pages get discovered and indexed, communicates page priority levels, avoids crawling issues, and sends valuable metadata about your content to search providers. This all contributes to better rankings and visibility in organic search results.

Last November Google Algorithm Updates, Google stated AI does not hurt but helps Google rankings and we can use AI content from ChatGDP and other artificial intelligence systems. Now, I am hearing that AI is hurting Google SEO rankings on content. What is what and did Google change its policy? I really do not think that is being fair.

Onpage SEO, also known as on-site SEO, refers to the optimization of a website’s individual web pages in order to improve its search engine ranking and visibility. This includes optimizing content, meta tags, images, internal links, and other elements on a website to make it more attractive to search engines.

To effectively implement onpage SEO, here are some important tasks that need to be done:

1. Keyword research: Identify relevant keywords that your target audience is using to search for your products or services. Use tools like Google Keyword Planner or SEMrush to find popular and relevant keywords.

2. Optimize title tags: The title tag is an HTML element that defines the title of a web page. It is displayed in search engine results as the clickable headline for a given result. Make sure to include your target keyword in the title tag and keep it under 60 characters.

3. Optimize meta descriptions: Meta descriptions are short snippets that appear below the title tag in search engine results. They provide a brief description of the content on the page and can influence a user’s decision to click through to your website. Make sure to include your target keyword and keep it under 160 characters.

4. Optimize heading tags: Heading tags (H1, H2, H3, etc.) are used to structure content on a webpage. They not only help search engines understand the content on a page, but they also make it easier for users to read. Use your target keyword in at least one heading tag.

5. Optimize images: Images can also be optimized for SEO by using descriptive file names and alt text. Alt text is used to describe an image for visually impaired users and it also helps search engines understand the content of an image.

6. Use internal linking: Internal linking helps search engines understand the structure of your website and how pages are related to each other. It also helps distribute link equity throughout your site. Link to relevant pages within your website using descriptive anchor text.

7. Create high-quality, relevant content: Content is a crucial element of onpage SEO. Create high-quality, relevant and engaging content that incorporates your target keywords naturally. This will not only help with SEO but also keep your audience interested and engaged.

8. Improve website speed: Website speed is an important ranking factor for search engines. Optimize your website’s speed by compressing images, using caching and reducing the number of HTTP requests.

By implementing these tasks, you can improve your website’s onpage SEO and increase its visibility and ranking on search engines. It is an ongoing process, so regularly review and update your website’s onpage SEO to stay ahead of the competition.

Forums and online message boards are the new thing according to Google Algorithm Updated recently. How long does a FORUM take to go viral?

Updating old content that got penalized with the latest Google Algorithm UPDATE in September 2023 has helped rankings. Ravinder Sharma, our digital marketing and SEO director has been monitoring our websites after the 2023 latest Google Algorithm changes and found that blogs that have been updated and refreshed has increased in rankings on all search engines. I will have Ravinder post more on this topic.

Pixel width: In most situations, 2500 pixels is ideal for displaying content in full screen mode on a browser. If an image is smaller than that, it may be cropped or appear pixelated when it tries to fill the browser width.

Image size: The ideal total (pixel) size for your photographs will depend on how they will be used; for example, background images should be larger than images for blog posts.

File size: Anything larger than 20 megabytes will have a significant influence on the speed of your website. Generally speaking, smaller photos (up to 1 megabytes) work better.

Image attribute: Image attributes, sometimes known as alt text or alt tags, are text-based and have little effect on how well your website functions. But keep in mind that screen-reader software is used by the blind to use them.

Schema markup is important for SEO not because it directly impacts your rankings in search results. But because of its other benefits. First, schema markup helps search engines understand the context and content of your pages more effectively.

Latest Google Algorithm Changes

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