Comments on: Good, Better, Best Real Estate Marketing for the Michigan Home Seller (via Team 366)

By: Maureen Francis

Maureen Francis — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:16:15 +0000

Shhhh. Let’s keep it our little secret!

By: Ashland MA Homes

Ashland MA Homes — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:27:05 +0000

Maureen it really is funny how some agents don’t pay attention to the internet. When over 85% of consumers find a home in this manner one would think an agent would have their name plastered all over the place. I know it works for me

By: Maureen Francis

Maureen Francis — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:18:12 +0000

Ashland MA Homes, here is a blog I wrote about not being able to find other agents on google in 2006. Still a problem today.

http://mioaklandcounty.com/blog/2006/11/26/help-i-cant-find-your-agent/

By: Ashland MA Homes

Ashland MA Homes — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:26:03 +0000

Maureen I am constantly preaching the same thing about the internet and maximum exposure for our clients. It absolutely astounds me when I do a search like you did and find so very little. I alos use point2 and a host of other sites.

Another great thing to show sellers in a listing interview is to Google the agents name. An internet savvy agent should have pages of results. You would be shocked to see how many agents have very little presence on the net.

By: Stephen Wolfe

Stephen Wolfe — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:56:06 +0000

Maureen, Hello from the other Birmingham! I wanted to stop by for a visit and figured this was faster than driving… I had never thought of this before, luckily I at least found about 150 for one of ours. It shows me that we are on track, but we could still do more. Thanks for sharing.

By: David Sherfey

David Sherfey — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:12:42 +0000

Maureen-

I found you via your Agent Genius welcome….so welcome!

In the “links” that google brings up on a search like this you will find MANY duplicates. You only have your property listed once on Trulia, for instance, but you’ll find many “links” coming from Trulia… Any number of searches for property will bring up our listings as well, but i don’t think this indicates a unique link. You will also find stuff like multiple whois “links” where I doubt anyone will be doing an active search for real estate…. A web savvy customer will recognize these things. This would mean that Todd’s “1000″ really is far less.

A far better measure, although not nearly as exciting, is how many different sites your listing appears on. For this you probably need to do a hand count, a small hassle, but after you get past the first 100, you have probably found them all.

Your listing shows up on many different sites, so by this count you look pretty cool. Our listings don’t show up on many, so I need to see what can be done to improve this if anything. We syndicate on Point2 and Keller Williams, so perhaps it may be the relative lack of use of the syndication opportunities by agents in our area (60mi NW of NYC) causing less local traffic to those sites. With our listings we make use of IDX by having our property site urls in the description of the MLS listing, which gives us a pretty long reach. Those links won’t show up in a Google search tho….

By: Missy Caulk

Missy Caulk — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:18:17 +0000

Yes, I use vflyer to syndicate and point2agent and number1expert and realestate shows. All 4 syndicated to the same sites, so does Keller Williams.

By: Maureen Francis

Maureen Francis — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:27:31 +0000

I know you use Vflyer, Missy. Are you using them to syndicate? Just asking, as I don’t think there is one answer on how to get listings syndicated.

By: Missy Caulk

Missy Caulk — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:06:48 +0000

Wow, I went and checked my listings, they ran from 26 to 75, I’ve got some work to do if your are in the 500’s. Wonder what I can do, since I syndicate to all those sites, of course my blog on AR gets top billing.