Where’s the Money in Real Estate Blogging?
By Drew Meyers | October 18, 2007
Attracting clients is where the money is.
Here’s a great example of someone brought home the bacon in the form of a attracting a client via blogging — Mike Jones, a mortgage lender for Golden Gate Mortgage in Tuscon, AZ. How’d he do it? Ranking for a very specific search on Google — “financing manufactured home tuscon“. Mike’s story is several days old, but I just came across it while browsing Active Rain. Here are Mike’s takeaways:
- Blogging can answer the demand “Show me the money!”
- Consistent blogging pays off. I’ve been doing this only since July of 2007.
- “Find a need and fill it” applies to a wider spectrum of age groups than I’d been targeting.
- It pays to pay attention to articles on “Tags” and “Search Engine Optimization” on Active Rain.
Hats off to Mike for sticking with it & bringing home the bacon!
Update: Lorrie Manny has found the money via blogging as well.
Photo via USMLEMB
Popularity: 4% [?]
Author's Website: http://www.zillow.com
Topics: Lead Acquisition, Blogging |
5 Responses to “Where’s the Money in Real Estate Blogging?”
Comments
« Search Engine Marketing for Realtors | Home | Adobe Lightroom Makes Life Easier and Faster For Photographers »
October 18th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Congratulations Mike. The Google page rank algorithm definitely responds to regular, new content posted on a page consistently over a period of months. It’s important to repeatedly use the word or series of words you want Google rank you high in. For example, in the last 8 to 10 months I’ve worked my way from several pages back in Google search results for the search term “real estate photography” to #1. I always use the phrase “real estate photography” several times in the post and in the post title if at all possible. The words you use in the post title are most important.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
[…] Jonathan Dalton wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAttracting clients is where the money is. Here’sa great example of someone brought home the bacon in the form of a attracting a client via blogging — Mike Jones, a mortgage lender for Golden Gate Mortgage in Tuscon, AZ. How’d he do it? … […]
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:05 pm
If you are in Real Estate, have a blog, and want consumers to find it, you should be paying very close attention to SEO. SEO is a complicated subject and there are many things you can do to increase your google rank. Content is certainly king. The title of your post is very important as well. You should have keywords to match your title but they should be written naturally and not just stuffed in for the sake of having them. In areas where there are many bloggers you should be focusing on the long tail and not so much the short tail. Active Rain is an excellent platform in my opinion. The big G certainly likes Active Rain. I have been on Active Rain for a little over three months and have gotten 4 new listing directly attributed to being there.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Wow - congrats! 4 listings as a result of AR is pretty impressive.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Metrowest MA - care to share a link to your AR blog and/or profile so we might be able to take a look at why you are so successful with AR?
I’ve been an AR member since practically Day 1 (before there were even blogs) and have never had direct contact from anyone other than another Realtor (well, and from people trying to sell me stuff).
My only concern with AR continues to be two-fold:
1) who owns the content you supply (ie: what happens if/when they sell out to some other entity); and 2) how do you seperate yourself from the other 50,000+ AR members.
Personally, I still think that you are far better off branding yourself and putting your content on your own blog rather than adding it to the collective of 50K other members.