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85% of the searches for real estate in United States and Canada starts on the Internet. This means that real estate agents must compete for visitors to their web sites otherwise they will not be considered. Similar to most small businesses real estate professionals do not have good brand recognition. Unlike big brands Nike, Reebok and Walmart, a real estate agents name is probably relatively unknown. So how does a real estate agent need to get found online? They need to brand themselves to the most popular real estate searches for their city. This is a guide for search engine optimization for real estate agents.
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The Internet is called the information highway and in order to travel it effectively, you will need to gather some information yourself. The best place to start is at the website that you already have in place. Look at your website from the standpoint of your prospective clients.
No one has to tell you that getting qualified leads is essential to any real estate practice. Since you already know that, I won’t go into all the reason that you need leads. What I will do is make suggestions on how to use your site to get qualified leads.
One of the main purposes of optimizing your website is to improve its position in the search engine rankings and thus on the search results page. While I encourage you to employ these techniques to achieve this, it’s important not to over emphasize your website’s position.
Once upon a time, long before the advent of the Internet, a person just like you had a great idea for a service to sell. It didn’t matter that others had the same idea and had already begun to capitalize on it. This person just knew that he could do a much better job at it and success was in the bag.
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is exactly what the term sounds like. It’s a series of techniques designed to help move your web site off the 50th search result page to the top of the first page where it belongs. You’ve heard the term, “first come, first served”.








