For those of you who are taking on the role of creating and managing your website and the content on it, there are a few important things you must think about. For instance, what is the goal of your website? How is the user experience on your website? How are people getting to your website?

If you have ever searched for something online, then you know how a search engine works for a user. You type something that you want more information about into the search engine, and then a list of likely candidates populates in the results. More often than not, you find yourself clicking on the first few sites. It's pretty valuable real estate to have (pun intended).

In this article, you will learn five easy ways you can improve your SEO, start moving up the ranks, and dominate your local real estate search.

Sign Up For Webmaster Tools

There are some great and, better yet, FREE webmaster tools available on the Internet. These webmaster tools are created to help you gain information about the performance of your site. I suggest Google's Webmaster Tool. It will tell you if there are any crawl errors, if your site is up to speed, how often outside sources are linking to your site, and how your site performs in search (and so much more).