As I have been asked to quote for the website of a retirement village in Mpumalanga I thought I would write an article to test the results I would get for Retirement Village from Google. The facts are that for a broad match there are 991 000 competing pages for the term, Internationally there are almost as many for a close match search. South Africa however has only 91000 competing pages for retirement Village.

Can we rank for retirement Village

In order to make the article honest I am doing a little research on Retirement homes. The top links in Google.co.za include a Hibiscus coast and a Pretoria based retirement village, the balance are estate agents and link sites. The top ten sites in google.com are not extremely well optimised for Retirement Village, so despite the obvious lack of favourable numbers. I might even have a chance at ranking for retirement Village.

Going about finding the Retirement Village

I promised 4 tips to finding a Retirement Village so I better deliver or you will think this article about Finding the perfect Retirement Village is a farce.

1. Decide where you want to stay and search for the Villages in that area as follows, Use quotation marks so that you do a close match search which should eliminate all the sites that are there just to catch you like this one. “Johannesburg Retirement Village” or “Nelspruit Retirement Village” I already know from my search that there are very few listings for either of those terms in fact nary a one for Nelspruit Retirement Village, so I am guessing if you search for Nelspruit Retirement Village you will find this site. Time for me to find some retirement Villages in the area and arrange a commission for your leads.

2. If the local area is not offering up any decent results try search for “Nelspruit retirement home” or “Cape Town Retirement home” Google if it finds no close match results may even offer you some broad match results.

3. Now you are really going to have to dig. Lets see if a Provincial search will give us any better results so lets try “Mpumalanga Retirement Village” or “Mpumalanga Retirement Home”

4. If that fails we are now going to have to scratch around the sandbox a little. Lets try “Retirement Home” OK that didn’t do much for us a few places in the Cape and some News articles.