Janie Coffey introduced me to Real Bird over a year ago. To be totally truthful, I was very happy with Vflyer and did not see the need to change or add anything more to my plate so I just smiled and moved on.

Then I visited Real Bird again when Janie told me about their new mapping feature. Since we are listing agents I look for ways to get our listings in front of agents who work with buyers so the map thing did not do a whole lot to push to me to spend the time to work on making more online flyers.

We have a buyer's agent that we have kept quite busy with the leads we get through our Point 2 agent website and our IDX search on the website. She would like to stay a bit more close to home geographically so I was looking for ways to drill down longer tail to get her some more qualified buyers. So I put Real Bird on my list to try out. It stayed on my list for months.

Last week I noticed that Real Bird had a featured post on Active Rain. I thought I would check it out and this time I went, AHA! This is it! This may just be what I am looking for.

Real Bird has a way now to pull up listings through Google Base. Our MLS is not available to Real Bird yet, but some of your MLS may be hooked up.

When I first put the search widget in my post here about a subdivision called Olympia here in Wellington Florida, I had a couple of glitches. It was late in the night as is par for the course for me. But I noticed that Gabe, from Real Bird, was located in Redwood City California right near where I was born. Since there is a 3 hour time difference I thought I would give it a chance and call him. He emailed me and called me right back. We then fixed the glitch and we had a great conversation about Real Bird and other important things like where Gabe is from. He is from Romania and he has a daughter who was just accepted to a University (just for starters).

Now I posted this post with keywords that are being searched via longtail. I added internal links so get more action from Google spiders, added a photo with alt image tags and then I added the specific keyword search for all the homes for sale just in Olympia subdivision in Wellington Florida. I then went about my business as usual, not giving this post much more thought.

Suddenly this weekend, we got 3 leads in a row from this Real Bird search widget on this particular post from people who are looking to buy a home in the Olympia subdivision in Wellington Florida. These leads were promptly sent over to Lisa, our buyers' agent and since 2 of these leads left their phone numbers ( an option) Lisa was able to call both of them!

Naturally I wondered where I stood in the SERPS because of this fast action. I was not surprised that this post along with others I had written about Olympia were on page 1 of Google SERPS and in the #5, #6. #8 and #10!

I am already adding more drilled down long tail keyword posts using the Real Bird search widget. I don't expect the same results with all the neighborhoods because most are not even searched by consumers. This subdivision happens to have a good amount of Google search traffic to it. I am sure that the students in my SEO To The Top Webinar are going to be excited about these results.

Start using Real Bird today, click here to see what Real Bird has to offer. I will write some tutorials on how to get the most out of Real Bird. My favorite part is how easy and fast it is to use Real Bird.

Real Bird Flies To The Top! by Katerina Gasset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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