March 19, 2024

Advice On How To Get the Best Listings

Real Estate Marketing

Advice On How To Get the Best Listings

This is a how-to blog post. It outlines a step-by-step process which will help you – the real estate agent – move through the process of the initial call to having the listing agreement. This approach will help any home owner to feel comfortable listing their property with you.

Real Estate Marketing - Getting The Best Listings

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3 Keys to SEO Success for Real Estate Professionals

SEO Success for Real Estate

For Real Estate Professionals

If you want both potential buyers and sellers to find you online, you need to concentrate on the SEO strategy, technology, and content that will boost your search engine optimization efforts.

SEO Success for Real Estate

Search engines are the single biggest source of traffic for most real estate websites. Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, can be simply defined as the process of getting found on search engine sites like Google, Bing, and Yahoo! On the technical level, SEO considers how the search engines work, what people search for, the actual terms typed into a search field, and which searches are preferred by your ideal audience.

Why Is SEO Important for Real Estate?

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SEO – Using Image Sitemaps

Maximize the SEO Leverage of Your Image Content

Create and Submit an Image Sitemap

Using Image XML Sitemaps

Google maintains a large image search index. Moreover, it is always interested in discovering more great image content. If your site is rich in images, especially original content, your goal is to get as many of your images indexed as possible. This helps search position. You therefore, need to create an image sitemap.

Moreover, you can increase the SEO value of your image content by submitting an XML Image Sitemap to the major search engines. This prompts them to visit your site, find your images and index them. This boosts the SEO value of your image content.

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A Helpful Real Estate Blog

A Helpful Real Estate Blog

Focus for Blogging Success

Real Estate Blogging If you are a real estate agent and want to promote your business by blogging, then there are a few clear objectives you need to have in mind.

These are:

  1. Establish Your Authority
  2. Help Solve Reader Problems
  3. Boost Your Position in Local Search – More Traffic – More Exposure
  4. Boost Article Sharing – More Traffic – More Exposure

Here are some ideas for your real estate blog content that will help you to achieve all of the above.

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Google Reviews

Ten Reasons Your Google Reviews Are Not Being Displayed

Support with Google Reviews

Google Reviews Don't Display

Over the past few months I have received many inquiries from clients about the Google Review situation. People have asked about best practice when it comes to gaining reviews. However, a significant percentage of the inquires also are related to people claiming to have received reviews and their Google reviews don’t display in the Google Knowledge Graph area.

I have looked at this closely over the past couple of months. Here are my conclusions as to reviews may not be displayed in the Google Knowledge Graph area on the right of the search results.

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Real Estate Marketing

The Content Center – Part 2

Real Estate Blogging

Real Estate Blogging - Real Estate Center of Content

This is part 2 of a series on creating a center of content that supports your real estate business.

You always need a center of content and the primary center will be your website and the service and content that it provides. You can further enhance your content center with a blog and your real estate blog will be a perfect compliment to your website.

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Real Estate SEO

Real Estate SEOReal Estate SEO – Steady Wins the Race

Create A Comprehensive Real Estate Search Engine Optimization Plan

 

To be effective at gaining and maintaining position in a competitive real estate market you need a SEO plan that covers all the bases. Real Estate SEO needs to be a multi-dimensional approach.

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