Why Are Hyper Local Posts So Important?

Couldn't agree more. Every one of my hyper-local posts gets a front page Google return on investment. Yes, I am NOT getting the Generic "...location...Real Estate" hits, but I'm getting responses from those who enter the proverbial "long tail search". I'll take 'em!

That's a good example. I want to check some of these out like you did for inspiration alone.

Hi Christine. I just joined AR and I am new to blogging. (I have yet to write my first blog.) And once again, thanks to you and others like you on AR, I just learned something new called "Hyper Local Posts". Thanks for sharing.

Christine

Thanks for blogging this.  I got your message immediately, because I see the relevance of providing quality information to my local community.  Great Post.

Christine,

Hyper-locals rock for me too! We all should do more of them.

Christine....I believe that localism posts definitely get the attention of the public.  It is just another way to get your name infront of people, and that has to be good.

Hi Christine. I'm glad that your post was featured because far too often some people lose sight of the power of hyperlocal content. This serves as a good reminder.

I've noticed that my hyperlocal posts get more views and clicks than anything!  Remember to be selfish, and put the 'Call to Action' buttons on the page and throughout the text to capture the leads in addition to the views.

Hi... The pudding looks and taste good !!

Thank you for the post, I have not really gotten as far as the hyperlocal post, but as I read down the comments too, that has helped immensely.  Thank you for the post and thanks to everyone for the comments.

Thank you for the post, I have not really gotten as far as the hyperlocal post, but as I read down the comments too, that has helped immensely.  Thank you for the post and thanks to everyone for the comments.

Thank you for the post, I have not really gotten as far as the hyperlocal post, but as I read down the comments too, that has helped immensely.  Thank you for the post and thanks to everyone for the comments.

Thank you for the post, I have not really gotten as far as the hyperlocal post, but as I read down the comments too, that has helped immensely.  Thank you for the post and thanks to everyone for the comments.

Christine,

Our business is changing and people are not searching for real estate agents but local information.

Christine - I get quite a few calls/emails every week from consumers in my market (LA/Ventura counties) looking for more info on affordable mortgage options.  Because I like to track my leads, I ask every single person how they heard about me and if they say through my AR blog, I will ask them about any particular post that appealed to them.

A very large percentage of the people who contact me were the direct result of some hyper-local post on my blog.  Oddly enough, I do get a few that will tell me that it was some comment I left on someone elses post that they like - GO FIGURE!

Anyway, the point is (I really do have one) is that it's my hyper-local posts that are driving people to contact me and so those are the posts that I need to focus on doing more of.  My blog is predominantly hyper-local posts, which don't garner a lot of attention from the AR community (SO WHAT - they're not the audience I'm targeting) but what they do get is a lot of attention from consumers in my local market looking for affordable loan options.  THAT'S WHO I BLOG FOR!

Great results for the fourth of july post.

Yes, the 4th of July did draw a lot of search traffic. It's funny how certain topics will do that. My best results were last fall blogging about the Oklahoma City Parade of Homes.

I think hyperlocal blogging is not that important below the city level, as long as the city/town is relatively small.  In the case of my town, Los Altos, there isn't that much difference between the north and south ends of town.  The differences that do exist probably don't warrant specifically blogging about as they don't change much.

In larger towns with major differences from one area to another, then I agree that hyper-local blogging is a good idea.

It's crazy that the 4th of July posts get so many hits. Mine had like 2000. I need to do those every year.

Thank you for the reminder. They certainly are important. I need to do much, much more of them.

Thank you