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Here’s my recent article on “Appraiser Blogging” or “Appraisal Blogging” as recently published on Ezine Articles.com. There video companion to this article is located here, Five Habits to Increase Visitors to Your Real Estate Appraisal Website Video!
Ask Yourself How Your “Appraisal Website” has rewarded you lately!
The foremost thing you need to do is question yourself if you really require an appraisal website! If yes, log on to Google and in the search bar type “Real Estate Appraisers in Your City”. The name of the city should be a place where your housing market is situated, for instance “Real Estate Appraisers in Spokane Washington”. You will see a long list of websites on the first page of the search and if you note that your old website is not ranked on Page One of Google, then you really need to give a serious thought. You need to check what your so-called appraisal website is achieving and for what purpose you are wasting your hard earned money when it does not solve the purpose.
Start A Self Hosted WordPress Appraisal Blog With Online Appraisal Ordering Capability And Post Housing Local Market News To It Weekly.
It is quite easy to start, publish as well as add widgets to WordPress blogs. WordPress Blogs are very easy to setup, publish to and add multiple widgets to. WordPress blogs have a built-in amazing feature which notifies the major search engines like Google about your posts with a short time after you click the submit button. Generally, you will never find this feature in other normal appraiser websites nor are these sites accepted by search engines almost like blog. You need to invest a little amount of about $17 and this includes $10 for a single domain name and $7 as monthly hosting fee. However, appraisers can not promote their personal business on free blog sites like WordPress.com and Blogspot.com. Appraisal blog help you achieve Habits 3-5.
Publish Your Local Market Studies To Your Appraisal Blog.
The basic job of an appraiser is to study the local market carefully in order to succeed. One of the best examples is 1004MC which is nothing but weekly market study. With five minutes, you can display 1004MC information results on your appraisal blog, provided you are permitted by the local board of realtors to publish this data. If you write a perfect Blog title, your blog post will be used by several local as well as national clients who need your appraisal services, to search for you on Google or on other online search engines.
Publish Local Videos To Your Appraisal Blog. It is a fact that in 2010, videos are quite helpful and informative. Due to the busy schedule, people hardly get time to read long articles about the product, but they do have a few minutes to watch some videos. And one of the most interesting videos is about the local housing market! And you want to know why they like to watch local housing market video, because property investment is usually the largest investment and due to unstable housing market conditions, home owners are quite inquisitive.
Get Creative With Your Appraisal Blog Content. You need to be creative for your appraisal blog content by adding unique text, images and video. Cobb County Housing Stats Fourth Quarter 2009. Spokane Washington Appraiser Photos From The Field. Abilene TX Appraiser Photo Of The Week. Most Memorable Houston TX Appraisal Assignments Of 2009. Top 10 Birmingham Alabama Subdivisions With The Most Home Sales. Soon you will see a day in your life as a real estate appraiser for your own town.
In Conclusion – Google loves to index blogs. If your appraisal blogs are creative enough and if Google ranks it top, you are likely to get greater number of orders from those online potential clients who are searching for local appraisal services. If you publish greater amount of content to your blog, Google will index your blog higher and this will really improve your blog’s fame and recognition.
Bill Cobb is and has been a residential appraiser in the Louisiana Market for 18 years. Bill builds Self Hosted WordPress Appraiser Video Blogs With Google Optimization And Incorporates The Big 3 In Social Media Within The Setup. Find out more at http://www.appraisersblogsample.info/. Bill also teaches Appraiser Video Marketing techniques at http://www.appraiservideomarketing.com/.
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Thanks for the list! We’ve been plugging away for almost a year on our real estate website/blog for Austin, Texas, but didn’t really see traffic pick up until June when I decided the stop flitting around and get serious about content.
Most of what I write is focused on basic education for consumers. Stuff that may seem obvious to us, or to many, but is clearly stuff people are looking for because as soon as something is posted, we start seeing visits based on the keywords/content. Adding the plugin for Sitemaps helped, too, because Google is notified immediately of the new content, and we really do see the visit coming in almost immediately.
Also, I stopped for about 10 days while I finished up an exhausting (and fantastic!) real estate sales class I was taking this summer and traffic started to drop almost immediately, too. Yikes!
We just set up a video “studio” in my upstairs office to start shooting market updates and other appraisal tidbits for consumers.
One thing also that I have found to be useful is to write blog posts that address topics that people landed on our site looking for but clearly didn’t find what they needed . . . meaning, I can see via Google Analytics that someone found our site by a keyword/key phrase that was close, but not quite, on a topic I had previously covered. When I see a few of those show up, with immediate bounces, I write a new post with more concise or direct information to answer that question the next time someone visits.
Over time, these are capturing long tail traffic, which adds up over the sheer volume of posts the blog is collecting.
Please keep posting your tips and I’ll keep coming back to read!
THANKS!!!!!!