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SEO For Real Estate Agents

October 31, 2009 by Silace Zyllion  
Filed under SEO

If you spend any time marketing through blogs, which many of us are, you understand the value of having your subject matter found on the internet. For some time I have been working to get the word out regarding the Real Estate Lead Generation Software served through RedX and have learned a impressive deal concerning search engine optimization in the process. Outside of the primary post, there are many steps needed to get your blog read and recognized. The steps following your post will really uncover your level of success in attracting traffic and subsequent real estate leads to your blog.

Steps To Attain SEO Success And Draw Real Estate Leads

You should realize that your blog is a promotion investment. However, your return on investment is determined primarily through how many people read your blog and visit your site. With this in mind, your biggest return will be from the blog posts that are search engine optimized.

The first step in the writing procedure should always be choosing a target keyword. Once you have decided on a topic, spend a few minutes on google to see how reasonable the saying you are focusing on will be. To see the level of competition, look next to the search box for the search results information. For illustration, the competitive data for the phrase “attract real estate leads is “Results 1 – 10 of regarding 4,230,000 for appeal to real estate leads. (0.55 seconds)” Since this post is competing with over four million other entries, it is unlikely to rank high on the search term “appeal to real estate leads.” Therefore, optimizing it for that phrase may be quite futile and I ought to perhaps optimize this post to a less competitive phrase such as “listing leads for Realtors”, or even “GRAR” which only has one million competitors.

Once you have decided on a target phrase, write your post to incorporate that expression one to three percent of the time. Include the expression as part of your header tags as well as your subhead Back to our illustration, the phrase Appeal to Real Estate Leads is in the tag of this article.

Now Start Your Real Estate Search Engine Optimization

This is the approach that I am now using to promote the RedX markdown page.

* Ping your entry using a pinging tool to numerous websites. I use pingler.com

* Make multiple unique versions of your article with an article rewriter. Unique versions are needed so that every syndicated site that posts your blog is counted as a single back link to your real estate blog. I now use Magic Article Rewriter as my instrument of choice.

* Submit your unique article to as many article directories as possible. I use two resources concurrently for this. The first is UniqueArticleWizard, the second is Magic Article Submitter. Both tools allow you to syndicate your article across the web over time which steadily increases your links and your search engine rank. Their actual sales pages are pretty cheesy, but the tools work great.

* Bookmark the post to StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicous, and the rest of the bookmarking websites. If you are using a Wordpress, Orlywire has an interesting tool that allows you to automatically bookmark your post to your accounts.

* If you haven’t submitted your RSS feed to the various feed readers, then now is the time to do so.

* Put a copy of your article or post on your social networks.

All of the above sounds like a lot of work, and it does take with reference to an hour to complete all of the steps. However, where you may appeal to 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.

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