3 Keys to Successful Internet Marketing for Realtors

Attendance is limited and we are expecting this free webinar to fill up fast. The webinar will be held on Friday, July 23, 2010 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CDT. Simply follow the link below to sign up.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/625296259

At Agentopolis we define Internet Marketing Success as, "The right number of the right people finding your website and doing business with you." In the early days of the Internet almost everybody with a business had a website built for them. For most of these sites, no consideration was given to getting the website to rank high in Google and other search engines for relevant searches, i.e real estate, homes for sale, mls listings, etc. More importantly, even less attention was given to local searches like, Minneapolis real estate, Minneapolis homes for sale, Minnesota MLS listings, etc.

As the Internet continues to change and evolve, more and more local real estate agents are discovering that with a little work, they can get their own site to rank well in Google. The trick is that there are only 10 spots on the first page of the Google search results and statistics show that if you are not on the first page, you are probably seeing little if any traffic to your site, which makes your site a bit of a waste of time and money.

The purpose of this free webinar, "3 Keys to Internet Marketing Success for Realtors" is to teach real estate agents about some of the more important aspects and strategies necessary to get your site highly ranked in Google and get your visitors to do business with you.

In this free webinar you will LEARN:

• How to find the 5 best search terms that home buyers are using to find real estate in your area.


• How to organize the content on your web pages to get high Google rankings.


• How to find great free sources for links back to your site.


• How to spy on your competition and see exactly why they are ranking above you in Google.


• How to make it easy for your visitors to share your listings with their family, friends and social networks.


• How to build a list of local home buyer leads.


• How to track your progress and make sure you are moving up and getting more leads.

Who SHOULD attend this Webinar:

• Anyone Realtor who is wondering how the #1 ranked agent on Google in their area got there.


• Real Estate Agents who want to become better website marketers


• Any Realtor who isn’t on the first page of Google for local real estate searches.


• Anyone who hasn’t added or changed content on their web site in the past 30 days.


• Anyone looking for a way to rank higher than their competitors in Google and other search engines.


• Realtors who are just getting started optimizing.


• Real estate agents who are frustrated with their current internet marketing efforts.


• Anyone looking for an easy to follow process for search engine marketing.


• Realtors who are tired of paying someone else for search engine optimization and it’s not working.

Attendance is limited and we are expecting this free webinar to fill up fast. The webinar will be held on Friday, July 23, 2010 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CDT. Simply follow the link below to sign up.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/625296259

How Do You Spell Transparency?

I recently joined a real estate forum and started contributing in what I thought was a respectful, professional manner having been blogging, writing and tweeting on the Internet for the past 10 years. It was a nice forum because it recognized that many people contributing to these types of media want to get some SEO, search engine optimization, value for their efforts, myself included.

As a result the forum allowed it's members to include anchor text links in their signatures, posts and comments. To make sure their members were at least somewhat sincere, it was required that you make 15 contributions before you could actually start linking back to your site. Over all I thought it was a great idea, that is until I logged in and got this message;

You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

This caught me by surprise as I belong to many online communities and I'm very familiar with basic etiquette and I work hard to be professional, relevant and transparent. I thought back over my previous posts to try and see what I might have done or said to "get the boot". But when I noticed that there was no reason specified as to why I was banned, I thought there must be more to this than meets the eye so I decided to poke around a little.

I discovered that the owner of this forum was a real estate marketing company and they obviously didn't want any competition. I kind of wish they would have mentioned this up front as I did read their terms of participation and there was no mention of who could join or not join.

They also could have made it clear who was the owner of this forum. As a real estate marketing company providing a great internet marketing tool for real estate agents, I would want everyone to know who was providing the service. Why hide this fact?

Anyway, at first I was a little mad about the whole thing but then I realized that there was nothing stopping me from launching my own industry forum. When I looked into the software required and costs, courtesy of a link at the bottom of their site, I discovered that it was more affordable than I thought and now Agentopolis is in the process of launching our own real estate forum. This will be free and a great place for real estate agents to develop valuable links back to their sites to help them with their Google rankings and internet marketing. We will even provide free webinars on how to use this tool.

So I guess you could say I'm grateful to the secret owner of the forum who kicked me to the curb, if it hadn't been for them I never would have known about this great free real estate marketing tool.

Thanks secret real estate marketing company, and don't worry, your secret is safe with me ;)