This is going to be spread out over many parts, and we’re going to start from scratch.

First we need web hosting, I will recommend the company I use as you get 7500GB of transfers each month and 750GB of webspace. Plus you have easy building tools included and auto installers to make your life really easy. You will be really pushed to find a better deal online.Take a look here and add the code CUST24180 to receive 75 GB of extra storage. I have about 22 sites hosted on my account, so it works out really low priced.

Now you have the hosting, you require a domain name for your website. You need to build a niche on a subject you really know and enjoy. If you play the guitar then you could build a site on this subject, or if you’re into gardening then pick this subject. Once you know which niche, then we need to look at the keywords related to this niche. I use a toolbar to find my keywords you can find out how to use it and more about it here. Once you’ve found some excellent keywords with plenty of searches each month, see if the domain is available. I use Name Cheap to purchase my domains, go to there homepage and under “Enter the domain name you want” type your chosen keywords first together, so if you’ve chosen garden tools, type gardentools in the search box without the gap, make sure .com is selected and click search. if it’s taken then try it with a dash, so enter garden-tools. Keep entering your keywords until you have a domain that’s available. If you can’t find one available, try adding a word to the beginning or end, so qualitygardentools and quality-garden-tools. Once you’ve found one, open an account with namecheap and purchase the domain name.

Once the confirmation has come through and the domain is listed in your namecheap account, you can then point it to your hosting, if you purchased the Servage hosting mention above then, click on the domain name in your namecheap account and on the left you need to click on “Transfer DNS to Webhost” in the centre of the page you will see 5 blank boxes, in the top two you need to enter ns1.servage.net and ns2.servage.net then click save changes. Give it up to 48 hours, then your domain name will be pointing to your web hosting.

We can now start building you site, this will be covered in part two.

First you need a site with quality content, this is easily achieved by using PLR articles and rewriting them, this is easier than you might think. Find a article which is related to your site and take each sentence and rewrite it into your own words, or swapping some word with others with the same meaning. You can soon become a master at rewriting articles and this adds unique content to your site. If you still can’t master rewriting, then you will find plenty of freelancers on digitalpoint forums that will do an excellent job.

Now you have a site with quality content, you need to find keywords and you can do this for free by using Google Adwords keyword tool to determine the most searched keywords.

Once you have your keywords then you need to do some marketing placing your new keywords into the links. I suggest using articles and putting your link in the resource box at the end of the articles. You can also social bookmark your site and the articles you have posted to ezine articles, go articles. You can also submit your site to web directories using your keywords. Again all this can be completed by a freelancer who can do the complete job of getting your site into the first page of Google for around $150 – $200. Take a look at Scriptlance and type in SEO to bring back open projects, so you can see how much programmers a willing to complete the job for.

Searchers make mistakes like we all do, it’s amazing how many mistakes are made when the searcher types in the keyword. Sometimes the searcher just doesn’t know how to spell a word so will type what he thinks is right.

Some keywords are typed incorrectly more than others, so you can include these in your SEO on your VRE. But if you operate a quality virtual real estate site you may not want to add these misspellings to your site for credibility reasons.

You can get by this by writing an article about misspellings and add the error keywords to your article, this will still keep the quality to your site, but include the underground keywords.

When you have found some excellent keywords that happen to be typos, work out a way to use them!

Before you start building your site, you will need to do plenty of keyword research, by doing this you will make sure you’re on the right track for a busy site.

All developers of VRE need to choose the right keywords so that the search engines bring their site the right sort of traffic and plenty of it. Once you have the right keyword, this will direct your site and give it a structural pattern.

The goal is to get highly targeted search engine traffic to your site and more the better. This is only going to happen if your site is high in the search engines for the keywords your prospective visitor is using to search.

Use keyword selection at the beginning of your project and you’ll be on the right track. There are plenty of resources for finding your keyword information, like wordtracker or Google.

Unique content pays, it’s the backbone of the most successful websites.

You can use previously published articles, but if you want the search engine robots to visit your site again and again, then you’ll need to add unique content, this is what they crave. It may take a little long to write or rewrite an article or cost if you’re outsourcing, but it’s a worthwhile investment as it’ll improve your sites SEO performance.

You can find ebay sellers, selling articles by the thousands, once you get into the habit of rewriting articles, it becomes easier, or if you prefer, then visit digitalpoint and get someone to rewrite them for you.

Traffic for VRE primarily comes from search engines, so search engine optimization is a must for a successful virtual real estate site, hopefully you know about on page SEO, with good keyword rich content, but off site SEO is just as important.

If you have excellent content, then you might get some natural backlinks from bloggers and other websites that like your published work. You can spend time developing your backlinks by link exchanging or other means, but you can’t beat others linking to you like crazy by offering a viral product with your link included. This can include a useful ebook or a piece of helpful software that gets passed around alone with your link. You don’t have to create this viral product yourself, have a good think and get a freelancer to create it.

It’s one of the best ways to get quick inbound links.

Some people think Google will send your site into oblivion if you use duplicate content that is already published on the Internet. But it’s not quite that bad as everyone seems to think.

Google will not give you any bonus points for using duplicate content that’s already out there on the web, it just prefers new fresh original content to the same old copied content.

If you use a freelance writer, then you require 100% original content for this exact reason, you don’t want to find your content has been copied and pasted from someone else’s work. If it has been copied then you could have some problems on your hands, your host could receive a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) complaint , which could lead you to being sued.

So before you publish and work from a freelancer or any other place, check it for plagiarism, you can search using a website called Copyscape or use Google, enter a few sentences in between quotes and see if Google shows up any similar content.

Is it better to purchase a dot com domain name or can you get by with any of the other extensions.

Search Engines will tell you that they are not bothered which extension you have at the end of your domain name and you’ll probably find that the name you require is available in one of the other extensions, all bar .com, but unless you have a good reason to pick another type of extension, stick to .com.

.com is the most well know extension and the most credible, also not everyone believes that the search engines are telling the truth when they say it doesn’t matter. .info has a reputation of being cheap and associated with template and spam sites, if you use a .info extension then you’ve probably put your site within a poor crowd of websites.

Do some research on the search engines and you’ll see that .com is king, you may save money using a alternative extension, but you may harm you sites search engine ranking.

If you’re going to build a website, stick to .coms.

How do you make your site receive plenty of visitors?

Well the first thing you do is SEO and people often think there’s a huge secret to search engine optimization.

Well part of that would be true as the Google algorithm is locked away safely at Google Towers and Google gives only a few clues.
The basics of SEO are quite easy to workout, people visit the search engines for answers and to find information, so the sites in the search engine rankings have to provide those answers, if they didn’t return good results, then they wouldn’t get used.

So what do we get from this, well the answer is you should build a unique quality site that provides answers. This is a far as most people know as without looking at Googles Algorithm we can’t give a 100% answer. But keep building a site that answers questions for the niche you have built and keep building back links to your site.

For more information read Matt Cutts Blog, he has worked for Google since 2000.