Learn the absolute basics of search engine optimization (SEO) for the real estate industry; the definitions, terminology and even why you should bother to focus on search engine optimization and positioning as a real estate agent.
a. Introduction to Real Estate SEO
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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”.
SEO works by driving targeted traffic to your business website. If you are an independent broker and are the company’s only employee, then you are mainly just competing with other companies in your area, which is a difficult task in itself.
One of the first steps in SEO is to design your website to target a particular audience, in this case those who are interested in buying or selling real estate in your region.
You may be thinking to yourself that SEO is going to take a lot of effort to be effective and you are absolutely right. So, why should you even bother?








