7 Sources for Realtor and Real Estate Website Posts – Part 3

August 20, 2011 By 2 Comments
Material for realtor and real estate blog posts

Material for realtor and real estate blog postsWe covered in the first part of this series the importance of new listings for blog posts.  Then in Part 2 we discussed getting market reports from MLXchange (this is one of our most popular posts yet) .  Today we hit part 3:

How to use Realtor.org for great Real Estate Website Posts

Now the first thing we have to do is make sure that we all know the difference between Realtor.com and Realtor.org.  Realtor.com has listings for rentals and sales of residential properties.  It is mainly designed with the consumer in mind.  Realtor.org is a website designed for Realtors and other real estate professionals.

It doesn’t matter if you are a Realtor, mortgage loan officer, title company, appraiser, or other real estate professional, there is tons of good reports and articles on Realtor.org.

Start out on the home page to see videos, news, and statistics.

News Releases

I like taking a peek at the news releases for updates on the real estate market that can be used in a website post or page.  You can even setup a rss feed for these.

Realtor TV or Videos

Be sure to go to http://www.realtor.org/technology/realtortv to check out a ton of videos that you can watch to get great ideas, or just share them on you site for your clients to see.  This is a very powerful tool for driving new website leads to your site.

Research and Statistics

As Realtors and real estate professionals, one of the best things to put on a WordPress site or other site is research and statistics.  Buyers and sellers love to see these and get a quick glimpse at what is happening in the market.

Realtor.org has a whole section at http://www.realtor.org/research/research/reportsstatistics.  You can see market forecasts, economic indicators, and other reports.  Be sure to check these out on a weekly basis.

If you don’t have enough with these three sources, there are podcasts and other info you can only access with your NRDS number.  Check out all of these on realtor.org.

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How many real estate leads can I get from having IDX on my real estate website?

July 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
February analytics for Social Media Optimized SEO happy real estate website

We have had some people asking:

How many real estate leads can I get from having IDX on my real estate website?

Of course that depends on how you have your IDXbroker configured.  Do you have some cool subdivision pages set up on your IDX site? Are you blogging at least once a day for 30 days?

I have had some people ask about the traffic on our RogersMLS.com site. I am a little nervous about sharing because I haven’t been blogging and nurturing my site, but I thought I would include the graphic below just so you can compare the traffic that we are getting with the traffic you get on your site.  There is another graph from February when we were using our IDX feed for lead generation.

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Check out my post about our sweet offer to setup your IDX social media optimized website by clicking here.

IDX and IDXbroker web traffic on your social media real estate website

Here is another little graphic that shows better page views and traffic.  Look at the over 11,000 page views in one month.  That is due to the way we did some cool Search Engine Optimization on our IDXbroker IDX feed.  It makes a HUGE difference in the amount of leads you get from your real estate website.

If you are an agent or broker, a team, or even an entire brokerage and you want to get your business moving and have great Internet presence, just go to IDX.RealSocialPros.com to get started today.  For only $199 we will do the setup on your website and for $39.99 a month for a single agent site, you will have access to IDXbroker’s IDX feed, and our great tips for SEO optimization.

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February analytics for Social Media Optimized SEO happy real estate website

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RealSocialPros and IDXBroker $199 Setup and $39.99 a month – A perfect match for any real estate agent or brokerage

July 11, 2011 By 3 Comments
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IDXbroker and RealSocialPros have the best prices on Social Media Optimized websites for real estataToday we are pleased to announce that RealSocialPros and IDXbroker have joined together to provide the best in Social Media Optimized websites for real estate agents and brokers.  IDXbroker has a huge feature set and we have used it for several years.

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Just $199 setup and $39.99 a month for your site with IDXbroker.  Our usual setup fee is $199 and we were able to get a special deal.  So you can have us setup a sweet site for you like our demo site at realsocialpros.com/demo or our site at RogersMLS.com.

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