Last month I blogged about an SEO project on the keyword phrase "Real Estate Investor Tools" where I was trying to move it up from its Google position of #284 of 33 million pages.

"My 'regular' job is working for a company that does web development with CSS (cascading style sheets) and SEO work (search engine optimization) for their own websites and for their clients. We're working on one website in a particularly challenging and competitive SEO area -- real estate investor tools. There are lots of websites out there all fighting for high rankings with various keywords, and the client has select some they want to conquer.

So here's what I'm doing. I wrote up a case study of what we're up to with trying to improve the search engine rankings for the website MyTurboBidder.com with the keywords below. I've included the latest rankings, and will update things as the project progresses."

Since then, Google has gone through its periodic housecleaning/reshuffling of search results for real estate investor tools. The rankings initially dropped to #472 but after the dust settled began surging upwards again. At today's review, the results are pretty impressive for the big three search engines:

Anyway, here are this week's updates for Real Estate Investor Tools:

• Google: #48 of 2.4 million pages
• Yahoo: #2 of 37 million pages
• MSN: #1 of 4.2 million pages

Updates for Real Estate Investor Tool:

• Google: #29 of 13 million pages
• Yahoo: #1 of 43 million pages
• MSN: #1 of 4.3 million pages