tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318224092024-03-13T17:57:08.759-07:004MySales - Viral Marketing with a Real Estate TwistSpread the Word * Market Your Product * Help REALTORS Succeed * Invest in Real Estate * Oh, and Buy My Software4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.comBlogger210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-25150888877291772552011-03-16T14:41:00.000-07:002011-03-16T14:42:44.782-07:00Aggressive Pricing to Move Short SalesI talked to a colleague who relies on the <a href="http://www.theredx.net/">RedX Real Estate Lead System</a> the other day and he told me that in general he expects, and gets an offer within 30 days of listing a short sale.<span style=""> </span>In fact he is so confident in those results that he makes it part of his listing presentation.<span style=""> </span>So after hearing that statement, I had to learn more.<span style=""> </span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Here is how he does it…</p> <p class="MsoNormal">First and foremost he explains that because the owner is taking a bath on the property and that the bank will do their due diligence when an offer is received, it is best practice to price the property at and just below market comps. <span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">After getting the owners agreement, he goes about listing the property on numerous online sites.<span style=""> </span>He posts the property on Zillow, Trulia and even lists issues a dedicated URL<span style=""> </span>through Listing Producer.<span style=""> </span>The benefit of the dedicated URL is that he minimizes the nosy neighbors who generally can just go online to snoop.<span style=""> </span>Here is an example of one of his recent listings:<span style=""> </span><a href="http://www.1059greenway.com/">http://www.1059greenway.com/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Next he schedules an open house, always a great way to farm an area and expand your listing base.<span style=""> </span>I think he has added six listings in that neighborhood in the past month.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Finally, as part of his approach, if after the first three weeks there has been no activity, he convinces the homeowner to reduce the listing price by $10,000.<span style=""> </span>This is done every two to three weeks until a magic price and buyer is found. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Obviously with a short sale getting the offer is just the beginning of the process.<span style=""> </span>However you can’t argue with getting an offer<span style=""> </span>that may be accepted by the banks within 30 days of every short sale listing.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-15229985697132883942011-02-04T18:12:00.001-08:002011-02-04T18:12:58.621-08:00Mobile Optimize For More and Better Leads<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">I was working with a colleague the other day and he showed me one of his new flyers. What was weird was that he had a two dimensional bar code printed next to his name.<span style=""> </span>Being the technophile that I am, I grabbed my Iphone and scanned the code.<span style=""> </span>Where I ended up was a great video of him introducing his services, the benefits that he offers and an exclusive invitation to join in one of his weekly conference calls.<span style=""> </span>The video was an apple compatible .mov file so it was compatible with my phone.<span style=""> </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">Well, I have to tell you that I was blown away.<span style=""> </span>What a great way to instantly create a personal relationship with prospective customers.<span style=""> </span>Not only that, but by inviting them to call into an exclusive weekly event, prospects get engaged without feeling pressured to list or sell.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">Apparently I was not the only one that was impressed.<span style=""> </span>My colleague mentioned that his listings have doubled since he started putting this bar code on his cards and flyers.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">This approach leverages new and novel technology to get prospective customers engaged with a REALTOR’s personal brand.<span style=""> </span>Although the technology is relatively new, it is becoming more and more widely used which means more and more customers are turning to use it.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">It will likely never replace real time listing lead services such as the </span><a href="http://www.theredx.net/"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">RedX FSBO and Expired</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;"> service, but it may be a great marketing tool to increase your reach and grow your number of active listings.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-15840569657813833872010-06-26T02:07:00.000-07:002010-06-26T02:08:36.065-07:00RedX and The National DNC RegistryIf you cold call as part of your sales process, especially if you are in real estate, you have to be conscious of, and in compliance with, the national Do Not Call registry. This registry was produced to care for consumers from aggressive telemarketers and sales people, and much like the CanSpam act, it has done its job plausibly well. However, for small business people such as REALTORS, and real estate brokers, persistently read-through this registry previous to making a telephone call costs time, money and assets that are in rare supply.<br /><br />In spite of the cost, real estate pros must adhere to this law. Aside from being the ethical thing to do, violations of the do not call registry can result in swift and heavy fines as well as large lost business.<br /><br />Luckily, for real estate broker that actively prospect on the phone, there is a simple solution. Real estate lead generation services such as the (Real Estate Data Exchange) include DNC verification as a fundamental part of their service offering. Services like the automatically scrub their listings against the countrywide Do Not Call registry before providing the information to the real estate agent. This added service protects the REALTOR from accidentally violating the registry and allows them to cold call prospective clients with the assurance that they are in full compliance with this law.<br /><br />It is important to note that the RedX is only one numerous tools that include a DNC verification as a fundamental part of their service. Services vary and the quality of the various marketing and lead generation services are widely different. Therefore, as a real estate agent or small business professional, you should always look for services that include automated processes that address the legal limitation of prospecting such as the DNC registry or the CanSpam act. <br /><br />The onus of compliance is on you, and the consequences of violating the law can be severe.<br /><br />If you are a REALTOR and looking for a way to repeatedly enlarge your client list, then visit <a href="http://www.theredx.net/redx-do-not-call-registry">RedX realty</a>. This great software provides you with the resources to beat out your competition. Have more leads, more listings and more free time with the Real Estate Data Exchange now.<div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-48794936677775161232009-12-24T12:14:00.000-08:002010-06-26T02:05:08.078-07:00My Gift To My Colleagues<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">As a thank you for all of your support this holiday season, I would like to offer each of you a complimentary copy of my <b style="">Residential and Retail-Commercial Investment Analysis Software</b>.<span style=""> </span>This software has been a great asset over the past few years and normally retails for $149.99.<span style=""> </span>It is now my gift to you.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">My friends at the RedX are also in a giving mood and wanted me to remind you all that their double discount special will only be going on for a few more days.<span style=""> </span>Their <b style="">Double Discount </b>is an up-front $149.00 discount as well as a<span style=""> </span>15% discount off of the first three months of service.<span style=""> </span>Overall, it is about a $185 savings.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Here is the link to their offer:<span style=""> </span><span class="msglistvalue"><b><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37);font-family:Arial;" ><a href="https://webmail.west.cox.net/do/mail/message/view?msgId=INBOXDELIM35312">http://www.theredx.net</a></span></b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Here is the download link to the software:<span style=""> </span><a href="http://www.freetrainer.com/tem/IPWare.exe">http://www.freetrainer.com/tem/IPWare.exe</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Have a very happy holiday season.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-38241865030582829752009-12-20T21:02:00.000-08:002010-06-26T02:05:50.863-07:00Final Discount For A Full Lead Prospecting System<p class="MsoNormal">I have been busy over the past few weeks looking at different marketing automation software program. <span style=""> </span>As such, I forgot to let everybody know that the Real Estate Data Exchange (RedX) has <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysalespromo.html">EXTENDED THEIR DOUBLE HOLIDAY DISCOUT</a> (15% off the first three months along with waiving the $149.00 start up fee) until December 31. <span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">If you have read my previous posts, you know I hold their listing lead and FSBO products in the highest regard and am happy that they have chosen to maintain a commercial relationship with me.<span style=""> </span>With that in mind, here is the link to their DOUBLE DISCOUNT PROMOTION:<span style=""> </span><a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysalespromo.html">http://www.theredx.net</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now, the <a href="http://www.theredx.net">Real Estate Data Exchange</a> aside, I have been fascinated by the potential application of some of these marketing automation programs for automating all of your lead generation and prospecting activities.<span style=""> </span>Currently I have narrowed my evaluation down to two programs, <a href="http://www.infusionsoft.com/">InfusionSoft</a> and <a href="https://www.activeconversion.com/">Active Conversion</a>.<span style=""> </span>So far, InfusionSoft is in the lead simply because it is more applicable to BtoC marketing (as in Realtor to Client) and has a number of pre-designed forms that eliminate a lot of the design work that would otherwise be required. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">So what does a marketing automation software do?<span style=""> </span>Well, it allows you to create a long term relationship with a prospect or client without having to continually and personally follow up with a client. <span style=""> </span>To give you an example, say you had a lead capture form on your website. <span style=""> </span>Without a marketing automation and lead scoring system, you would typically just follow up with a call. <span style=""> </span>Now, you may still choose to do that, but what if instead, the prospect received a personalized email from you during business hours within 20 minutes of them filling out the form? </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Okay, that sounds like an autoresponder.<span style=""> </span>However, what if your marketing automation system also automatically left a voicemail, sent an SMS text, or mailed out a hard copy of an appropriate market report. <span style=""> </span>Now, what if you call the prospect and they say they are just keeping tabs on the market? <span style=""> </span>Well, your automated marketing system can be set up so that once in a while it sends a personal email to “just check in”<span style=""> </span>periodically invites<span style=""> </span>your prospect to a seminar, webinar, or video that you are hosting.<span style=""> </span>Essentially, the marketing automation system allows you to continually market to a prospect and warm them to the point that when you make the call, they are ready to give you the listing.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Take a look at InfusionSoft.<span style=""> </span>Currently, they seem to be the best value with the most applicable features. <span style=""> </span>Also, don’t forget to take advantage of the <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysalespromo.html">double discount on the listing lead and FSBO lead system from RedX</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-75589665916350846512009-11-06T13:15:00.000-08:002010-06-26T02:06:18.341-07:00OMG, I Can't Believe It!If you have kids, or are under the age of 20, you know what that acronym stands for. For those of us who remember learning how to type on Electrolux typewriters, it may be foreign. For me, I had to look it up.<br /><br />Regardless, that was the sentiment that I felt when my friends over at the RedX (Real Estate Data Exchange) gave me permission to offer huge discount on their listing lead, FSBO and Agent Website listing lead service. <br /><br />As many of us can attest, they have a great product that includes a complete lead management system that interfaces with your MLS as well as multiple databases to give the correct listing contact for every expired and FSBO in your area. Their system then scrubs the data against the DNC registry to provide. Here is a link to a video demonstrating their product. <a href="http://theredx.com/demo.html">http://www.theredx.net</a><br /><br />So here is what they have agreed too. In addition to waiving the $149.00 start up fee, they are also offering a 15% discount for the first three months of membership if you choose either the quarterly or monthly package. You save about $184 with this package which is fantastic.<br /><br />So anyway, to take advantage of the program, us promotion code 14610 or register through this rather long URL: <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysalespromo.html">http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysalespromo.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-87951072817431585772009-10-26T10:33:00.000-07:002009-10-26T10:34:51.950-07:00LinkconnectorThis is a temporary post to establish a linkconnector account.<br /><br />-Barrett<div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-48674393601792039772009-10-15T22:42:00.000-07:002010-06-26T02:06:35.766-07:00Blogging For Real Estate Professionals<p>If you are blogging to attract real estate leads, which many of us are, you know the value of having your content found on the internet. I have been working for some time to get the word out about the <a href="http://www.theredx.net">Real Estate Lead Generation Software</a> provided through RedX and have learned a great deal about search engine optimization in the process. What I have learned is that if you want to successfully drive leads to your blog, the actual post is only the first step. The steps following your post will truly determine your level of success in attracting traffic and subsequent real estate leads to your blog.</p><br /><p>Steps To Attract Real Estate Leads Through Your Blog</p><br /><p>Let’s face it. Any time you spend creating a blog is an investment in marketing. However, your return on investment is determined primarily through how many people read your blog and visit your site. Fundamentally, the best way to get your blog read is if it shows up on a search engine. Therefore, getting a high ranking for a given search term is imperative. So what are the steps necessary to search engine optimize your blog post?</p><br /><p>Before you even begin writing your post, you should determine what keyword phrase you are targeting. If you have a topic in mind, spend a few minutes on google to see how competitive the phrase you are focusing on will be. To see the level of competition, look next to the search box for the search results information. For example, the competitive information for the term “<a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">attract real estate leads</a>” is “Results 1 - 10 of about 4,230,000 for attract real estate leads. (0.55 seconds)” Because this article is competing with over four million other entries, it is unlikely to rank high on the search term “attract real estate leads.” Therefore, optimizing it for that term may be relatively futile and I should probably optimize this post to a less competitive phrase such as “<a href="http://www.grar-mls.net/">listing leads for realtors</a>”, or even “<a href="http://www.grar-mls.net/">GRAR</a>” which only has one million competitors. </p><br /><p>After you have chosen your search phrase, write your post to include that phrase one to three percent of the time. Be sure to include the phrase as part of your header tags <h1> as well as your subhead <h2>. Back to our example, the phrase Attract Real Estate Leads is in the <h2> tag of this article.</p><br /><p>Now Start Your Real Estate Search Engine Optimization</p><br /><p>Here is what I do to promote these posts as well as the <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">RedX discount page</a>.<br /><br /> * Ping your entry using a pinging tool to multiple sites. I use pingler.com<br /><br /> * Use an article rewriting tool to create multiple unique versions of your article. Unique versions are needed so that each syndicated site that posts your article is counted as a unique back link to your real estate blog. I now use <a href="http://bit.ly/Article_ReWriter">Magic Article Rewriter</a> as my tool of choice. <br /><br /> * Submit your unique article to as many article directories as possible. I use two tools concurrently for this. The first is <a href="http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/amember/go.php?r=11190&i=l0">UniqueArticleWizard</a>, the second is <a href="http://bit.ly/Article_ReWriter">Magic Article Submitter</a>. Both tools allow you to syndicate your article across the web over time which gradually increases your links and your search engine rank. Their actual sales pages are pretty cheezy, but the tools work great.<br /><br /> * Bookmark the post to StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicous, and the rest of the bookmarking sites. If you are using a Wordpress, Orlywire has an interesting tool that allows you to automatically bookmark your post to your accounts.<br /><br /> * If you haven’t submitted your RSS feed to the multiple feed readers, then now is the time to do so.<br /><br /> * Update the post on your facebook, MySpace, ActiveRain and Broker Agent Social pages.</p><br /><p>All of the above sounds like a lot of work, and it does take about an hour to complete all of the steps. However, where you may attract one or two real estate leads from the post alone, you can now expects a few hundred more people to find you from your search engine optimization activities.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-69790518284295561512009-09-28T12:54:00.000-07:002009-09-28T12:58:38.001-07:00Update On Real Estate SEO Tools<p class="MsoNormal">This is an update to my previous post where I described my experiment where I used the automatic article directory submission system, <a href="http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/amember/go.php?r=11190&i=l0">Unique Article Wizard</a> to make a single article unique and to submit it to over 600 directories.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">If you read the previous post, what I had done as part of the experiment is to take the actual post and write two additional versions with similar syntax so that the Unique Article Wizard system would be able to randomize the paragraphs to make each article unique.<span style=""> </span>I then submitted my three articles to the <a href="http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/amember/go.php?r=11190&i=l0">Unique Article Wizard</a> system and measured the backlinks to our site that offers the <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">discount on RedX REALTOR</a> leads page.<span style=""> </span>Because I used a pen name as part of the experiment, I included the unique word xyssion in the post so that it could be easily searched.<span style=""> </span>As in the previous post, xyssion did not have any data associated with it on google when I published the first article.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Okay with that background, here are the results of the experiment.<span style=""> </span>Within four days of publishing the article the term <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;">xyssion</span> returned 16 entries on google that backlinked to our <a href="http://agentsonline.org/">Agents Online</a> and <a href="http://www.lockbox.me/">Lockbox</a> websites.<span style=""> </span>As of today, a search for the term on google returned 87 entries (60 on bing), all of which are links provided back from syndication of that one article.<span style=""> </span>The actual number of links is much greater, but these are the sites that have been actively indexed and rank at an acceptable level.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;">From an SEO standpoint, the article and subsequent publication of it took about two hours.<span style=""> </span>Eighty-seven active backlinks from two hours worth of work sure beats the thirty hours I spent submitting <a href="http://www.mlsni.us/">MLSNI.com</a> to various directories to get fifty active links, so I think this experiment can be classified as a success. Now I’m looking for a tool to speed up that manual process of directory submission.<span style=""> </span>I’ll let you know if I find a good one. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-32985081335603090582009-09-14T23:12:00.000-07:002009-09-14T23:15:54.946-07:00SEO Backlink ToolsI have been doing a bit of article marketing lately to promote the <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">RedX FSBO and Real Estate Lead service</a> and have found two very effective tools to attract numerous backlinks without a lot of work.<span style=""> </span>The first tool takes your article, walks you through a process to create multiple unique versions of each paragraph, the automatically submits a hundreds of unique versions to over six hundred directories.<span style=""> </span>The service is the <a href="http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/amember/go.php?r=11190&i=l0">Unique Article Wizard</a>, and I found it by reading about various backlink shortcuts on a few different internet marketing forums.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The service came highly rated, and I have been using it for a short time.<span style=""> </span>So far I have published two articles with the identifier “randy xyllion” and one containing the word “xyssion.”<span style=""> </span>In the past two days, I have 106 indexed links from google for the xyllion articles and 16 links from bing back to the xyssion.<span style=""> </span>Overall, not bad for drafting three articles about internet marketing and sending them out to the world.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The other tool that I have recently had success with in building backlinks to increase the search engine position of my <a href="http://agentsonline.org/">agents online</a> website as well as the <a href="http://supraekey.org/">supra ekey</a> and <a href="http://www.lockbox.me/">lockbox</a> sites is a service called the LinkJuicer.<span style=""> </span>Okay, not a great name, but an interesting service.<span style=""> </span>If you recall how a link circle used to work with multiple participants sharing links back to other member’s websites, this service will be very familiar.<span style=""> </span>Essentially, the <a href="https://www.thelinkjuicer.com/">LinkJuicer</a><span style=""> </span>is the social network equivalent of a link circle.<span style=""> </span>The beauty of the service however is that backlinks to your site grow slowly and naturally over time as the system places your link into the social accounts of other participants and places links to their site from yours.<span style=""> </span>Because the system limits the addition of only three sites per day and includes fifteen of the popular online social networks, your backlinks grow slowly and reliable which the search engines just love.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-75055929181696703452009-08-07T22:59:00.000-07:002009-08-07T23:06:04.199-07:00New Supra Ekey LockboxesI have been doing some searching recently and found that from an SEO standpoint, there are a few words that may be very easy to get highly ranked. The two words that seem to keep popping up in the real estate realm are <a href="http://lockbox.me/">lockbox</a> and <a href="http://SUPRAEKEY.ORG">supra ekey</a> and strangely enough <a href="http://PLANETREALTOR.INFO">Planet Realtor</a> which is the florida MLS system. <br /><br />As part of my ongoing learning curve with different types of site optimization and landing page creation, I secured the URL's lockbox.me and <a href="https://dcc.godaddy.com/default.aspx?ci=8987#" id="ctl00_cphMain_DomainList_gvDomains_67490340_btnDomainName" title="PLANETREALTOR.INFO" onmouseover="window.status='PLANETREALTOR.INFO'; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="return OpenDetailsIdentifer(67490340, 1, 1, 0,'', false);">PLANETREALTOR.INFO</a> and supraekey.org. I have loaded a temporary page on the lockbox site, but have not determined what I will eventually do with it. The same goes for the supra ekey lockbox and keysafe site as well as planet realtor.<div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-66535198571112705122009-06-18T00:20:00.000-07:002009-06-18T00:25:28.458-07:00Ten Twitter Tools Real Estate Agents Can't Live Without<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COwner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">I have been working with Twitter quite a bit lately, and I thought I would list those that I have found most useful for real estate agents to attract leads. <span style=""> </span>These tools have been great in helping me promote both the <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">discounts on the RedX listing lead service</a>, and <a href="http://bit.ly/cDMKB">single property sites.</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://bit.ly/cDMKB">
<br /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Here are the top ten Twitter Tools</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://bit.ly/18Y1SV">EasyTweets: </a><span style=""> </span>Get notified if someone tweets you, your blog, or any brand you want to engage with</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.twellow.com/">Twellow</a>:<span style=""> </span>If you haven’t registered your Real Estate Twitter account on Twollow, it is time to do so.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.twollow.com/">Twollow: </a><span style=""> </span>Take some of the hassle out of searching for your prospects.<span style=""> </span>Twollow automatically follows your prospects based upon your target keywords</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.notify.me/">Notify.me</a>:<span style=""> </span>Would’t you like to know the instant a prospect needs your services?<span style=""> </span>Notify.me lets you know by chat, SMS, or email when a prospect raises their hand.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.tweetlater.com/">TweetLater</a>:<span style=""> </span>Would’t it be great if you had an autoresponder on your account, or could schedule your tweets in advance? <span style=""> </span>Oh yeah, you can….<span style=""> </span><a href="http://www.vacatweet.com/">VacaTweet</a> can be uses for an autoresponder as well</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bubbletweet.com/">BubbleTweet</a>:<span style=""> </span>Add a personalized video to your twitter account.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.peoplebrowsr.com/">PeopleBrowser</a>:<span style=""> </span>The only application that I have found where you can geo-target a keyword search</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/">Twitter Karma</a>:<span style=""> </span>To bulk follow or unfollow your followers</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://tweetlister.com/">TweetLister: </a><span style=""> </span>Now you can post your full listings</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://tweetdeck.com/">TweetDeck</a>:<span style=""> </span>Useful desktop management of your twitter followers</p><p class="MsoNormal">
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http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-46425689834302359552009-06-12T15:41:00.000-07:002009-06-12T15:43:09.792-07:00Create A Wordpress Blog<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I have been reading different posts on this and other real estate related sites for the past few years as I promote <a href="http://www.4mysales.com/">4MySales</a> and the <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">RedX lead generation service</a>. There has been a lot of discussion regarding the different blog technologies, but and a niche industry has grown up in <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">helping real estate agents</a> create their own custom blogs.<span style=""> </span>I have been working in this medium for a while, and while this may be old information for many of you, I did wan to share the exact process to creating your own Real Estate Blog on your own URL, without the need to hire a consultant.<span style=""> </span>The blog platform that I will be describing is Wordpress, and it is quite user friendly to use.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">With that as the background information, let’s begin.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p><br /></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1) Register for your URL.<span style=""> </span>Pick one that has contains your primary target keyword.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p><br />2) Register for a hosted account on a Linux platform. <span style=""> </span>Choose a host that has a cPanel interface, which is just a type of control panel. <span style=""> </span>I use resellerzoom’s budget hosting site.<span style=""> </span>It is six bucks per month and you can host multiple sites in one account.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p><br />3) On your hosting confirmation, there will be two DNS (Nameserver) addresses that look something like ns1-fannin.nswebhost.com.<span style=""> </span>These are the nameserver addresses that you need your URL to point to.<span style=""> </span>You can update your nameserver with your domain name registrar, either through their website, or by requesting help from the.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p><br />4) Now that you have a hosted account with a URL pointing to it, login to the cPanel account that was set up through your host. <span style=""> </span>One of the buttons on the cPanel control panel should be Fantastico or fantastico deluxe.<span style=""> </span>This is a tool that automatically installs blogs, forums or sites to your account. <span style=""> </span>Click it it, and off to the right site, click on Wordpress.<span style=""> </span>Fantastico will ask you for the name you wish to call your blog, the username and the password that you wish to use to access it. <span style=""> </span>Fill out the form and click install.<span style=""> </span>It is just that easy!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p><br />5)<span style=""> </span>Fantastic sets up your blog, so now you just need to login and start customizing.<span style=""> </span>Login to your new blog’s adim page, it is usually your blog directory / wp-admin.<span style=""> </span>From your login dashboard area, you can access all of the tools available to customize wordpress. <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>If you are new to Wordpress, my recommendation would be to first choose a theme.<span style=""> </span>Click Appearance area and choose themes.<span style=""> </span>There should only be two on your first install, but at the bottom of the page is a link to the theme directory.<span style=""> </span>Go down, click it and start looking for a theme that will best exemplify your brand.<span style=""> </span>You can also jump on Google or Bing and start searching for wordpless templates. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p><br />Depending on where you find your template, you can add it one of two ways.<span style=""> </span>The first is through an automatic install if it is available. <span style=""> </span>The second is to download the template to your website.<span style=""> </span>Use an unzip utility to unzip it to a folder, then use an ftp client (I use filezilla) to upload the template to your website.<span style=""> </span>If you need to upload a template using this approach, save your unzipped template folder to the Themes folder which is a sub-folder of one of the three main folders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p><br />6)<span style=""> </span>Once you have chosen and loaded your theme, go back to the Appearances/ Themes link and your new theme should show up. Click on it and in the top right corner there should be a link to make the theme active.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p><br />7)<span style=""> </span>Now that you have chosen your theme, you can add some plugins which add video, social tools, links, pictures, news feeds, and any other resource that you would ever want.<span style=""> </span>Go to the plugins tab.<span style=""> </span>At the bottom of the page are links to get more plugins.<span style=""> </span>Just like the theme, click on the link and go shopping. <span style=""> </span>Install the plugins using the same methods as you used to install the theme.<span style=""> </span>Either use the auto install if it is present, or if not, download the zipped file, unzip it and upload it to the subdirectory entitled Plugins.<span style=""> </span>There is a way to automatically unzip the files in your directory, but it is beyond the scope of this article.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p><br />8)<span style=""> </span>Once you have chosen and uploaded your plugins, activate them on the plugins page.<span style=""> </span>Most of the admin functions for these various plugins will be found under the Settings link.<span style=""> </span>Also, once you have activated your plugins, you can make them show up on your blog by clicking the Appearance link and clicking Widgets.<span style=""> </span>Adding them to your blog is simply a matter of choosing and saving them.<span style=""> </span></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p><br />That’s about it.<span style=""> </span>Now all that you need to do is add pictures, update text and make your blog look pretty.<span style=""> </span>It is a very straightforward process if you are looking to host a blog on your own URL instead of relying on your Blogger or Wordpress.com account.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:stockticker><span style="font-size: 10pt;">TAGS</span></st1:stockticker><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Wordpress, blogs, fantastico, resellerzoom, web host, web registrar, URL, plugins, wordpress themes<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-75227234265948381212009-06-08T10:59:00.000-07:002009-06-08T11:02:39.835-07:00Getting Real Estate Leads With Twitter<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I was looking at this approach to promote our discount offer for the <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">RedX listing lead system</a>, but it’s possibilities are so much greater.<span style=""> </span>The advantage of Twitter for real estate and mortgage professionals is that prospective clients post their needs online all day long. <span style=""> </span>Thanks to this fantastic new technology, you get instant visibility to a prospective client’s needs, the second that he mentions them.<span style=""> </span>It is then just a matter of making contact, offering your services, and working the relationship.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">So how would you use this new technology to attract listing or selling clients?<span style=""> </span>Well, getting a new lead is a simple as using one of the many available Twitter mashups that notify you when someone posts a target keyphrase.<span style=""> </span>Combine that with a basic geo-targeted mashup and you have a system that will tell you when someone in your area posts text that could be considered a lead.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">In writing that paragraph, it sounds a bit more complicated then it really is.<span style=""> </span>Therefore, I’ll use an example. <span style=""> </span>Suppose you are an agent that specializes in short sales or foreclosure.<span style=""> </span>You would set up a notification service like <a href="http://affiliates.easytweets.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=188">Easy Tweets</a> to notify you when someone posts the terms “short sale”<span style=""> </span>“list of foreclosures” “home shopping” “looking at neighborhoods” “bidding on foreclosure” “looking for realtor” etc.<span style=""> </span>When any twitter user posts these terms, you will get notified.<span style=""> </span>The next step is to simply Follow these prospects in your own Twitter account and use a geo-targeting twitter mashup (there are a number of them out there) to determine if the poster is local to you.<span style=""> </span>For those posters that are in your vicinity, simply reply by direct message to their post and courting them as an active prospect.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I have been looking for a geo-targeted system that combines the easy tweet notification system with geo targeting so that you only get notified about people in your area. <span style=""> </span>However, I have yet to find that service.<span style=""> </span>Because of that, you may need to sift through potential leads from across the <st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region></span><span style="font-size:100%;">.<span style=""> </span>If you do know of a system that combines the geo targeting with the keyword notification, let us all know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-13976458950535979042009-06-04T10:22:00.000-07:002009-06-04T10:26:53.129-07:00Maximize Your Social Real Estate Marketing Online<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">I received an email this morning from a company that teaches best practices in marketing. <span> </span>The offer was your standard lead generation tool offering a complimentary e-book download in exchange for an email registration.<span> </span>I have been using a similar method to promote our discount offer on the <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">listing lead and FSBO lead service</a>. There was nothing exciting about the offer, but what was interesting was the use of Twitter and social marketing tools to expand the reach of the offer.<span> </span>Just under the call to action and download button were the following phrases with associated graphics and links:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">(I have changed the original links to those of the <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html" title="redx" target="_blank">RedX</a> for demonstration purposes. Try them to see how they interact with each social site. I hope to share how to create each of these links in futue posts.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 52px;" src="http://www.agentsonline.org/images/realestateagentsonline.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 12.25pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><img src="http://img.en25.com/eloquaimages/clients/eloqua/%7b409ce64f-a5a6-44b9-8b39-3b1496e2b190%7d_twitter_tn.gif" alt="" height="20" width="20" /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;" > Have a Twitter Account? <a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Fantastic%20promotion%20for%20REALTORS.%20%20Save%20$150%20off%20registration%20for%20the%20RedX%20listing%20lead%20system.%20http://bit.ly/Zbwtp" target="_blank">Tweet about this download!</a></span><br /></p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 12.25pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><img src="http://img.en25.com/eloquaimages/clients/eloqua/%7b409ce64f-a5a6-44b9-8b39-3b1496e2b190%7d_twitter_tn.gif" alt="Twitter_tn.gif" height="20" width="20" /> Follow Barrett On Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/Leads4Realtors">@Leads4Realtors</a></span><br /></p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 12.25pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><img src="http://img.en25.com/eloquaimages/clients/eloqua/%7b409ce64f-a5a6-44b9-8b39-3b1496e2b190%7d_twitter_tn.gif" alt="Twitter_tn.gif" height="20" width="20" /> Follow (company name) On Twitter @(company name)</span><br /></p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 12.25pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><img src="http://img.en25.com/eloquaimages/clients/eloqua/%7bd83d5ba0-ae3c-4906-b309-43bf7ea77919%7d_blog_tn.gif" alt="Blog_tn.gif" height="20" width="20" /> Read Barrett’s <a href="http://realtorleads.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Blog</a></span><br /></p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 12.25pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://bit.ly/Zbwtp" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;color:black;" ><img src="http://img.en25.com/eloquaimages/clients/eloqua/%7b170fe265-9637-4d55-847d-005d909992cd%7d_facebook_tn.gif" alt="facebook_tn.gif" height="20" width="20" /></span> Share on Facebook</a></span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 12.25pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;" > </span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.25pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;" > </span></p><span style="font-size:85%;">The value in including these types of links into any of your real estate <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">agent online </a><span> </span>marketing campaigns is obvious.<span> </span>It allows the recipients not only to spread your message, but also create a closer relationship to you.<span> </span>The tweet about this download link actually has a script that inputs the text directly into your twitter text box so you just need to click update after logging in.<span> </span>Overall, this is a nice, unobtrusive way to expand the reach of your word of mouth marketing programs and generate a few more leads.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-19465709063796159672009-06-02T11:41:00.000-07:002009-06-02T11:42:43.473-07:00Real Estate Blog SEO<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">If you are using a Wordpress blog, there are a number of steps that you can take to better optimize it for search engines. <span style=""> </span>In fact, for those of you who host your own real estate blog using the wordpress scripts, these optimization steps can be very easy and yield great results. <span style=""> </span>For those of you who are familiar with these techniques, I apologize for re-presenting the basics, but I have found that many real estate bloggers have not taken these step in their own blogs.<span style=""> </span>With that in mind, here is and introduction wordpress blog SEO 101.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Step 1.<span style=""> </span>Under your settings / permalinks tab, be sure to change the URL structure to “custom structure” and include only the string /%postname%/ in the text box.<span style=""> </span>This essentially makes the extended URL of your post the title of the post.<span style=""> </span>If you include keywords in your posts, they end up in the actual URL.<span style=""> </span>For example, in posting on the topic of prenatal vitamin (my wife’s blog) and using the post title Prenatal Vitamins,<span style=""> </span>the blog URL becomes <a href="http://www.prenatalvitamin.net/">http://www.bloomennutrition.org/prenatal-vitamins</a> <span style=""> </span>which is about as keyword targeted as you can get with sub-directories.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Step 2.<span style=""> </span>Under your settings / general tab, update the Blog address and Wordpress Address <span style=""> </span>URL to include the www as opposed to the straight http://webaddress.com<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Step 3.<span style=""> </span>Find the wordpress <a href="http://www.wpautosocialposter.com/">AutoSocialPoster</a> plugin. <span style=""> </span>This tool allows you to automatically post a link to your new blog entries to many of your online bookmaking accounts.<span style=""> </span>The plugin is not free, but is well worth the money.<span style=""> </span>However, please be sure to check that it is compatible with the version of Wordpress that you are using.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Step 4. <span style=""> </span>For the next step, increase the number of sites that announce / ping your new entries when you add a new post.<span style=""> </span>Go to the settings / writing tab.<span style=""> </span>At the bottom there is a text box with the URL<span style=""> </span><a href="http://rpc.pingomatic.com/">http://rpc.pingomatic.com/</a>. <span style=""> </span>In this area add any other pinging services that you can find.<span style=""> </span>A good list, and a great pinging tool, can be found at pingler.com.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hopefully for those of you who are actively blogging, this post provides a little help.<span style=""> </span>Separately, to provide an update on our <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">Agents Online</a> <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">lead system for realtors</a> project, the site pops up as number eleven on Google for the Agents Online term and number four for the same term in quotations.<span style=""> </span>The real time SEO demonstration is progressing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-86845959646127537082009-06-01T21:35:00.001-07:002009-06-01T21:38:01.030-07:00Working on Real Estate SEO on Bing<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUser%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C09%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">I haven’t quite formed my opinion about Microsoft’s new release of their Bing search engine.<span style=""> </span>In reading the reviews, I am not alone.<span style=""> </span>I have spent a little time this afternoon trying to get a feel for what where my real estate listing lead site and associated links lay in the ranking.<span style=""> </span>What I found is that this “because it’s not google” search alternative has a completely different algorithm which will likely require a completely different SEO strategy for your real estate website.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I am not sure if this new search engine will give google a run for its money in search engine terms.<span style=""> </span>As <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/">Seth Godin</a> put it, “Bing is trying to be the new Google.<span style=""> </span>Unfortunately Google is the new Google.”<span style=""> </span>However, it does have some interesting features.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now for those of us who are trying to get our real estate website to the top of the ranking, optimizing for bing may require a different strategy.<span style=""> </span>In fact, in looking up the search terms that index my site well on google, I there is little success on bing.<span style=""> </span>The Expired <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">Listing Lead</a> term did return back my link to the RedX as the top link, but the multitude of other sites that typically show up in reference to me did not.<span style=""> </span>For my <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">Agent Online</a> experiment, the site was not even indexed, and similar to google, <a href="http://www.realestatecountry.net/">real estate country</a> did not return a link to my page, even when I typed in the exact URL. <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Even my wife’s’ “<a href="http://bloomennutrition.com/">prenatal vitamins</a>” page did not get indexed.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">From what I can determine with the very limited experience that I have had with the site, it uses an algorithm similar to google’s but puts a high weight on sites that have been around a while along with those that are well linked.<span style=""> </span>Unfortunately from an SEO standpoint there is not much that you can do to age your <a href="http://www.freetrainer.com/">real estate URL</a>.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-14380466653880381002009-05-27T10:26:00.001-07:002009-05-27T10:36:25.682-07:00Real Estate SEO, Getting to the Top of Google<p class="MsoNormal">Those of you that have been reading this blog know that I am using the search term Agents Online and the associated website <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">AgentsOnline.Org</a> to demonstrate in real time how to get your website to the top page of a search engine for a specific phrase.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For this specific example, I have chosen the phrase “Agents Online” and I am slowly moving the site up to the first page of google for that respective phrase.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">To provide an update on where we are on this experiment, I signed up the URL AgentsOnline.org less than a month ago and created a basic website optimized for the term.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Next I added links from this blog and built a Squidoo page which in turn linked to the site.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I also created a twitter account dedicated to Agents Online.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Currently there are about 16 total sites that are indexed on the search engines and link to this site.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now for our progress on Google.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If you search for the term “<a href="http://agentsonline.org/">Agents Online</a>”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>in quotes, the page ranks as number seven among the entries on the first page of Google.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Not bad for having a site established for less than a month.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>When you search on google for Agents Online <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>without the quotes, the page pop up as number 21 on Google which is at the top of the third page.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>While this is not as significant, it does make the point that by building <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>a page optimized to a specific term, and using your target term as part of your URL, you can capture a premium place on the ranks of google very quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now to move the site rank up from number 21 to within the top ten we just need to add some more high quality, high page rank links. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The can be achieved simply by posting comments on real estate related blogs, associated websites and forums.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">As you read through this post, you will no doubt realize that this is a very easy way to boost your web traffic without extensive Pay per click.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>as a word of caution, this process doesn’t always work.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For example our <a href="http://www.realestatecountry.net/">Real Estate Country</a> site has yet to show up at an acceptable level for the term Real Estate Country.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-13313915053862042452009-05-21T10:58:00.000-07:002009-05-21T11:00:37.110-07:00Lead Generation Program With TwitterWhen I began working with this new technology I was very skeptical. I have had access to my twitter account which I used to promote our discount to the RedX <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">listing lead generation system</a>, but until recently have not spent much time using it. As a result, I am a little late to the game. However, now that I have a good grasp on the technology, I can see how <a href="http://agentsonline.org/">real estate agents online </a>should be utilizing this tool to attract leads.<br /><br />Now what are the steps to incorporate Twitter into a campaign? Before we get started you need to understand that Twitter is only a single touch point for your prospective clients and that multiple touches are usually needed to attract a client. Also, understand that Twitter etiquette implies that when you follow someone’s tweets, they may in turn follow you.<br /><br />With that background, what are the steps? The first step is to link your twitter account to any online page where you can be found. If you have a site, blog or online presence, add a “<a href="http://twitter.com/leads4realtors">Follow me on Twitter</a>” badge with a hyperlink to your twitter site.<br /><br />To start using Twitter as a marketing tool, create an auto-responder on your twitter account so that when someone chooses to follow you, they will automatically receive a thank you with a call to action. I use<a href="http://www.tweetlater.com/">TweetLater.com</a> for my autoresponders. The message should thank the user for following, and include a call to action. Your may choose to make your call to action an offer for a free report, data, or some other offer that allows you to capture more information about your target lead. For example, my call to action is “Thanks for the Follow! Want a discount on listing leads from RedX? Visit me <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">here for more info</a>.”<br /><br />The next step is to start tweeting. You should routinely tweet, but also be aware that there is a shortcut that you can use when you can’t post directly. If you have a <a href="http://agentsonline.org/">blog</a> that you update often, you can post the feed directly to your twitter account using <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/">TwitterFeed</a>.<br /><br />The next step in your twitter marketing should be to add followers. You can find followers who live in your area simply by doing a keyword search on the twitter user directory Twellow. Just search the twellow list for active tweeters that live in your area and follow those that fit the bill.<br /><br />There are numerous other ways that you can include twitter as part of your marketing, including mobile messaging and even video. We won’t get into those details for this post, but may address them lager.<br /><br />Finally, I did want to mention that we are still SEO-ing the term, <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">AgentsOnline</a> but it has not yet been indexed on Google. It should be soon.<div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-53053351885008873622009-05-19T11:46:00.000-07:002009-05-19T11:48:33.430-07:00Agents Online- Real Time Update and Google SEOAs previously stated, I am committed to demonstrating how you can use a long tail keyword and some very basic online tools to get your website, or at least its online landing page, to the top of google.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>To recap, I have chosen the search term Agents Online which receives about 11,000 searches per month according to google’s keyword tool.<span style=""> </span>I have registered for the URL <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">http://www.agentsonline.org</a> and last evening I spent about two hours on Dreamweaver creating a multi-page website. <span style=""> </span>I copied much of the data from the failed <a href="http://realestatecountry.net/">Real Estate Country</a> site, but optimized it for the search term <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">Agents Online</a>. <span style=""></span><br /> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Because the web page is basically an experiment and essentially promotes the RedX <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">expired listing lead</a> system, I didn’t spend a lot of time on the format so it is pretty basic.<span style=""> </span>However, I did employ some very basic SEO techniques including having different descriptions and tags for each page, parsing the data on multiple pages within the site, and including a privacy policy.<span style=""> </span>Anyway, here is the site for <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">agents online</a>.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As we all know, having a website does not mean that traffic will just show up; even if you do have an appropriate URL. <span style=""> </span>Therefore, the next step is getting backlinks and doing some online promotion.<span style=""> </span>In that vein, early this morning I created a <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/agentsonline">squidoo lens</a> focused on the term Agents Online and bookmarked the page on StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us, and registered for the Blogger Blog <a href="http://agentsonlinerealestate.blogspot.com/">Real Estate Agents Online</a> <span style=""> </span>The reason for the lens and the blog on blogger is that both have a relatively high page rank out of the gate and both allow for “dofollow” links.<span style=""> </span>Also, every time I post something to a blog, I run the URL through pingler.com so that the search engines know that new content is available.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">So this was the preliminary work for this project.<span style=""> </span>Over the next few days, I will be posting links to the Agents Online site wherever I can.<span style=""> </span>It may take two or three weeks for the site to actually get indexed by google, but these links give it a head start. <span style=""> </span>In about ten days, you should be able to google the term “agents online” and at least one, probably more, of the links described above will appear on the first page.<span style=""> </span>Shortly after that, the actual <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">agents online</a> website should appear. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-1958974024198085542009-05-18T17:08:00.001-07:002009-05-18T17:08:40.240-07:00Real Time Update on Getting to the Fist Page of GoogleAs I mentioned before, this blog thread is attempting to show you how you can get your site to the top of the search for a given long-tail keyword on google. I am little less confident in this post due to the challenges in getting realtestatecountry.net to show up on the first page of google for the term <a href="http://realestatecountry.net/">real estate country</a>. However, I think I will have more success with the term “<a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">agents online</a>.”<br /><br />Anyway, to provide an update, I registered the URL agentsonline.org on Friday with <a href="http://www.godaddy.com/">godaddy.com</a>. The URL cost $14.00 which is an insignificant cost in comparison to the traffic that should be seen if this process works out. I have spent two hours today drafting the text that will appear on the agents online website and will be posting it over the next few days. If I have the time and things actually go according to plan this time, the site should show up under the term agents online within the next two weeks.<br /><br />Keep in mind that the process that I am describing, if it works, should be easily duplicated for whatever long tail keyword you are trying to optimize. For example, if you are trying to optimize for REALTORS in Naples, this methodology should be relatively successful.<div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-32114477428430700742009-05-15T15:44:00.000-07:002009-05-15T15:45:05.487-07:00It's Reat Estate SEO Time Again with Agents Online<p class="MsoNormal">Okay, the fact of the matter is that <span style=""> </span>sometimes your SEO plans work out and sometimes they don’t.<span style=""> </span>For example, I published the <a href="http://realestatecountry.net/">real estate country</a> website with intentions to get it on the first page of google for the search phrase “real estate country.”<span style=""> </span>To date the page has not shown up in the top searches for Google, and is in fact very poorly ranked.<span style=""> </span>I blame lack of planning on my part as United Country seems to have numerous high ranking pages that show up under the Real Estate Country Term.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.<span style=""> </span>This afternoon I registered for another term that I feel will be better suited to demonstrate the SEO strategy that I have been sharing for the past while.<span style=""> </span>This new term, <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">Agents Online</a>, gets between 11,000 and 18,000 <span style=""> </span>searches on Google per month.<span style=""> </span>Obviously the term targets real estate agents, I have been a member of the site for eight years, but there are very few competitive sites optimized for that term.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">With this new term, here is the strategy:<span style=""> </span>Use <a href="http://www.xsitepro.com/index_r.html?p=bloomen&w=home">XSite Pro</a> to create a website optimized to the term <a href="http://www.agentsonline.org/">Agents Online</a>.<span style=""> </span>After that, establish backlinks to the site by posting comments on the many social networks and blogs that cater to the real estate segment.<span style=""> </span>I also plan to the site on the few blogs that I manage myself.<span style=""> </span>In fact, wherever there is the ability to place a dofollow link on a website, do so.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">After that, it is a matter of reporting on the success.<span style=""> </span>Hopefully I will have better luck demonstrating how to use this technique to search engine optimize your real estate lead generation pages than I did with <a href="http://realestatecountry.net/">Real Estate Country</a>.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-69220058720019516372009-05-14T12:23:00.001-07:002009-05-14T12:24:23.434-07:00REALTOR Marketing With Mobile Messaging<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I attended an online seminar today the topic of mobile messaging.<span style=""> </span>My purpose for attending was to look for ways to promote our <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">expired listing lead service</a>.<span style=""> </span>The data presented <span style=""> </span>was pretty compelling; especially if you have a list of prospects that you are challenged to stay in contact with. The technology has moved to the point that you can now offer your prospects a way to stay continually in touch with you and the services that you provide.<span style=""> </span>The technology is not completely new.<span style=""> </span>There have been online companies that provide listing data in response to a specific mobile text numbers that you can post on your listing.<span style=""> </span>Unfortunately, these systems usually provide a one-off communication with your prospect, and some rudimentary contact information from which to follow up.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p>This approach which is well known to most real estate agents is completely different than what was presented.<span style=""> </span>The example that was provided was a communication that was sent out from during a concert to those who had registered to receive mobile updates.<span style=""> </span>The communication included a coupon code and an invitation to forward that coupon on to each of the recipient’s friends which essentially made the message viral.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Now I know that you are not putting on large rock concerts, and probably don’t have that big of a budget; also, real estate is a completely different animal. <span style=""> </span>However, the strategy remains the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p>As a marketer, here is how I would recommend real estate agents use this technology:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p>1)<span style=""> </span>Getting leads:<span style=""> </span>contract with a SMS text service provider so that you can put different text codes on different listing signs and advertisements that you place.<span style=""> </span>There are a number that serve the real estate industry, but make sure that they have an autoresponder system so that after the first text is sent, the textee is sent a follow up requesting permission to provide additional updates.<span style=""> </span>You want your list of leads to opt in to the communication.<br /><o:p></o:p><br />2)<span style=""> </span>Sending a list of listings may be trite, let’s face it, we all do it as a standard of practice with little differentiation.<span style=""> </span>Instead, send out data that is both useful to your prospective customer and unique to you. <span style=""> </span>If you tie the text numbers to a specific advertisement, you can at least assume some things about the individual who requested the data. <span style=""> </span>From there, you can create follow-on texts that may suite the prospect’s interest.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>These may include new listings that are similar to what originally prompted the text.<span style=""> </span>For differentiation <span style=""> </span>and the viral spin, you may want to send local updated on local events. <span style=""> </span>You may also go as far as approaching some of the advertisers in the local clipper magazines and mailers and request permission to forward their offer to your target list. <span style=""> </span>Let’s face it, when was the last time you received a free pizza or 20% off dinner at your local Chinese restaurant from your Realtor?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-53977045412101645542009-05-04T15:25:00.000-07:002009-05-04T15:27:26.523-07:00Improving Keyword Search Traffic<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My ideas building squeeze pages is not unique, and is in fact becoming a widely practiced technique for search engine optimization. As a reminder, a squeeze page is a search engine optimized keyword specific landing page to gather leads. An example of this would be my <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">expired listing lead site</a>, realestatecountry.net.<br /> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Here is a link to a <a href="http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=31211">Marketing Sherpa article </a>on how Jelly Belly has used this technique to grow their online customer acquisition and conversion by 200%. Now for many REALTORs, using an enterprise system to create 500 keyword specific pages is just not economically viable. However, I can tell you that similar results can be achieved with a simple WordPress blog, templates and a godaddy account. <br /> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Just to keep score on which of my links are currently getting first page exposure for a search term on Google, “<a href="http://www.realestatecountry.net/">Real Estate country</a>” is still low on Google, but gaining rank. <a href="http://www.freetrainer.com/"> Expired Listing lead</a> and Expired Listing Lead software is dominated by my links. For my wife, “<a href="http://www.bloomennutrition.com/">Chewable Prenatal Vitamin</a>” shows up on Google twice with a link to Bloom’en Nutrition, and I just registered <a href="http://www.pregnancyvitamin.net/"> PregnancyVitamin.net</a> so we shall see when it finally ranks after I get the pages loaded.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
http://www.4mysales.com</div>4MySaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381223188269622702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31822409.post-37741969338372947042009-04-30T16:35:00.000-07:002009-04-30T16:36:55.738-07:00Squeeze Pages to Get to the Top of GoogleIf you have read my previous blog, you know that I have been spending time lately developing landing sites for our <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">expired listing lead software</a> that quickly get to the first page of google for a given search term. The benefit of this technique is obvious in that five hours worth of work can result in a torrent of traffic that would have otherwise cost a fortune. Unfortunately, each of these sites takes about five hours worth of work to develop using Dreamweaver, or at least three hours using <a href="http://www.xsitepro.com/index_r.html?p=bloomen&w=home">Xsite Pro</a>.<br /><br />However, recently I have found a tool that promises to shorten that time investment into about an hour from start to finish, not including the research into the keyword. The tool is simply a <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=47128&c=ib&aff=60928" target="ejejcsingle">Wordpress Theme</a> generator that quickly turns any Wordpress installation into an active and formatable landing page. The actual term for the sites that result from this Wordpress theme are Squeeze Pages (landing pages designed to attract leads online.) <br /><br />So what is the advantage of this new tool? <br /><br />Actually, there are a couple. The first is that Google loves Wordpress blogs which gives you a leg up when you get started. The second is that all that is required to create an effective lead generation page is to upload a wordpress blog, choose the theme, and type your keyword-optimized advertisement. As I said before, it is a lot quicker than creating a site from scratch, and once you have modified your template, you only need to make minor modifications to the text to optimize it for another keyword. As I said, this tool promises to save a lot of time.<br /><br />So just to re-cap, what do you do in order to get a site to show up on the first page of google?<br /><br />1) Use the google keyword tool to find a search term that your target client would typically search. Find keywords that have a large number of searches, but few sites that are directly optimized for that site.<br /><br />2) Register for the URL of that keyword. If possible, get the .com version<br /><br />3) Create a Wordpress Blog (many web hosts that offer the cPanel control panel have an automated installer built in.)<br /><br />4) Upload your <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=47128&c=ib&aff=60928">squeeze page theme</a>.<br /><br />5) Modify the text and images of the theme to meet the needs of your brand. I would recommend making these changes, then downloading the version to your hard drive so that you only need to make the formatting changes once.<br /><br />6) Publish the blog, place the appropriate links back to your real estate home page.<br /><br />7) Start placing backlinks.<br /><br />What you will find is that your site will initially get indexed pretty far down the google ladder, and occasionally won’t get indexed at all. (this happened to me with<a href="http://realestatecountry.net/"> realestatecountry</a>.net.) Regardless, over the next few weeks, start adding links to the site from any real estate-related websites that you have access to. Place a link back to the site on your <a href="http://activerain.com/blogs/4mysales">ActiveRain blog</a> as well as any other blog you manage. Get as many links from real estate-related sites back to the page as these will ultimately determine where your site ends up on the search engine ladder.<br /><br />After a few weeks, if you have sufficient links, your site should creep to the top of the search engine ladder. As an example of how this technique works, google <a href="http://www.theredx.com/signup/4mysales.html">expired listing leads</a>. How many entries that link back to <a href="http://realestatecountry.net/">4MySales</a> or Barrett Niehus can you count?<div class="blogger-post-footer">REALTOR Expired Listing Leads
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