Agents Online Moving Up

Just to provide an update on this experiment, real estate agents online is moving up in the ranking. The real estate and listing lead site to assist REALTORS in attracting new business is now ranked 18 on the target search engine.

A Useful Extension of Twitter

As I mentioned below, Twitter is a new animal to me, but so far it has been useful in promotiong Agents Online.    I found this afternoon a new tool that promises to make my postings on the site much more effective.  The tool is Ping.fm which is an aggregator site that allows you to make one post to their site and that post will show up on all of your online social network accounts.  Thanks to the new site I shouldn't have to worry about updating my Twitter, Facebook and MySpace accounts individually.  

It should all be automatic.    For a busy real estate professional, this is fantastic.  

How To Use Twitter As a Marketing Tool

In order to begin using Twitter as a marketing tool, create an auto-responder on your twitter account so that when someone chooses to follow you, they will automatically receive a thank you with a call to action.  I useTweetLater.com for my autoresponders.  The message should thank the user for following, and include a call to action.  Your may choose to make your call to action an offer for a free report, data, or some other offer that allows you to capture more information about your target lead.  For example, my call to action is “Thanks for the Follow!  Want more real estate listing leads?  Visit me here for more info.”  

You also want to add a follow me on twitter badge to any of your online web pages, blogs, forum sites, or anywhere else that a prospective lead may be. 

Once you have set up your account and posted your badge, you need to start tweeting.  Try to post multiple times per day.  There is also a shortcut to help you when you can’t post directly. If you have a blog that you update often, you can post the feed directly to your twitter account using TwitterFeed. 

Now that you are up and running, you just need to add followers.  Do a search for a specific keyword and start adding. 

On a completely separate topic, I am still trying to get the words, AgentsOnline indexed on google.  It has only been two days so more time and effort is needed.

Welcome to Real Estate Agents Online

Welcome to our real estate agents online blog. This blog is part of a real estate SEO experiment to demonstrate how real estate agents can use free online resources to get their websites to the top of the search engines for a given real estate term. I have posted more information on this real estate SEO system for online agents at our Active Rain account as well as my personal real estate marketing blog.

I will be posting updates to this blog periodically as they pertain to our agents online website as well as the expired listing lead system from the RedX that the agents online and associated real estate country sites promote.

Stay tuned.