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Embedding Google Maps into your AR Blogs. What I found today...

By Melissa Marro

Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams First Coast Realty - The Marro Team

October 23, 2012 09:04 AM

Embedding Google Maps into your AR Blogs. What I found today...

I've been working on a set of keywords that I think are relevant in my area. Recently moving to St Augustine, I discovered something I had never heard of before - CDD fees. They didn't have them in Charleston, SC, where I've spent all my real estate time. They are quite costly and can really affect how much home you can afford. Not all neighborhoods have them though. So, I decided to start focusing blogs on neighborhoods that don't have them. I've written quite a few and my SEO seems quite good for the keywords that I'm using. Every few days I check to see where I am with my keywords and today was one of those days.

I noticed that there was a new entry on page 1 of Google.

Clicking on it, I realized that it was my map - the one I created for my AR blogs!

Last Monday I spent a few hours going back to all my hyperlocal blogs, creating and inserting maps. I did it because I was told that Google likes them. All I had hoped was that Google would give a little extra juice to the blogs that I had already written. I did not expect to get another search result out of it. Guess what I'll be doing for all of my future hyperlocal blogs?

Thank you for reading... Embedding Google Maps into your AR Blogs. What I found today...

To read the blog featured in this post, go here... Neighborhoods with NO CDD Fees in St Johns County

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Momentum Realty

North Orange County CA Real Estate Specialists - Yorba Linda, CA

Orange County CA Real Estate Agent

Great tip Melissa! Who would have thought that one Google map could "put you on the map" (ie: on the first page of Google) HA HA! Thanks for sharing! Guess I've gotta go create some maps now ; )

Have a good day and a great weekend ahead!

Gina

Oct 25, 2012 03:18 AM

Jerry Newman

Brown Realty, 210-789-4216, - San Antonio, TX

Texas REALTOR, San Antonio Military Relocation

Hi Melissa. I used to add Google Maps to my weekend Open Houses. Not sure why I stopped, but I plan to start adding them again, thanks to your post today.

Oct 25, 2012 03:59 AM

Terkel Sørensen

Real Estate Places - Temecula, CA

Realtor, 951.805.0773 , Bank owned and Short Sales

Melissa, that is COOL. Nice job and thank you for including a link to the instructions - I will definitely have to retrofit a few myself.

Oct 25, 2012 04:49 AM

Stacey Mayer

Snohomish-Homes.com - Everett, WA

Snohomish-Homes.com

Bless you, my friend! I'm adding this to my old and new blogs immediately.

Oct 25, 2012 05:28 AM

Melissa Marro

Keller Williams First Coast Realty - The Marro Team - Orange Park, FL

Jacksonville Real Estate and Home Staging

Thank you for all of the wonderful comments. I let them get away from me and now there are too many to comment individually on. I have read each and every one though...

Here are some comments/questions I have about them...

Michael - I'm curious why QR codes are effective in blog posts? Wouldn't a link work just as well or better? I thought the primary point of QR was for print media?

Frank - Google Maps has several videos on map making. They might be helpful to watch. I'm not enough of an expert to try to teach others, but was able to be fairly effective in about a week's time.

Bryan - Why a new Google profile for the maps? Wouldn't you want all roads leading back to your main google profile?

Thank you again for all of the wonderful comments!!

Oct 25, 2012 05:53 AM

Stephanie Perrault

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Los Gatos, CA

Realtor Associate

Wow! Thank you so much!

Oct 25, 2012 06:04 AM

Lyn Sims

Schaumburg, IL

Real Estate Broker Retired

I've done them for many subdivisions in my area but can't remember how they showed in natural search. I do know that it works. There are many tutorials here on how to do it for people that haven't tried it yet.

Oct 25, 2012 07:46 AM

Kimo Jarrett

Cyber Properties - Huntington Beach, CA

Pro Lifestyle Solutions

Thanks for another new lesson for me to utilize and help grow my business. Always learning and earning in the AR community.

Oct 25, 2012 09:08 AM

Sharon Parisi

United Real Estate Dallas - Dallas, TX

Dallas Homes

Last year a client of mine moved to Florida and we both learned about CDD fees, for the first time.

Oct 25, 2012 03:29 PM

Rob Renk

Center Street Lending - McKinney, TX

AE | Fast Fix/Flip Loans for Residential Investors

Great post. I really love St. Augistine. It's a wonderful place.

Oct 25, 2012 07:57 PM

Suzi Sandore

RealtyONEGroup - San Diego, CA

North County San Diego Homes

Thanks for the great tip Melissa, and for sharing it with the rest of us!

Oct 26, 2012 06:38 AM

F U

nobody - Alamance, NT

Dead

Free Juice, I like it. We all need great tip, thanks for sharing with us.

Oct 26, 2012 02:26 PM

Melissa Marro

Keller Williams First Coast Realty - The Marro Team - Orange Park, FL

Jacksonville Real Estate and Home Staging

Thank you again for all the great feedback. I'm glad it was helpful.

Sharon - I really had to do some study and research on them. They can certainly add to the pricetag of a home or condo.

Oct 27, 2012 03:05 AM

Steve Higgins

RE/MAX Kelowna - Kelowna, BC

Hi Melissa,

Good information, thank you. I will start using google maps in my posts now, I think I will go back and add some to my older posts.

Oct 28, 2012 01:11 PM

Mark Loewenberg

KW of the Palm Beaches - Palm Beach Gardens, FL

KW 561-214-0370

nice tip...glad you rained it down here for all of us to see, gives great food for thought!

Oct 30, 2012 06:05 AM

Debbie Gartner

The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY

The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

LOL...today I noticed one of my maps on the search results - #13 on page 1 for "Westchester hardwood refinishing" - that's for my whole county.,

I was not # 1 on the page, but I had slots 2, 3, 4, then 2 others (maybe 6 and 7) and then #13 w/ the map. It made me think of this post. The map had 12,000 views (I think because the posts I used them in had close to that # of views).

Oct 30, 2012 06:08 AM

Cindy Jones

Integrity Real Estate Group - Woodbridge, VA

Pentagon, Fort Belvoir & Quantico Real Estate News

I've made a few as well but haven't gone back to take a look to see where they might be popping up in Google. Off to check now.

Oct 30, 2012 06:44 AM

Michael Blue

Home Smart Realty West - Encinitas, CA

REALTOR - 760-889-8877, Encinitas/Carlsbad

If you use a QR code made by Google (goo.gl) of Say a real bird listing profile -All that school information, photos,local shopping and transportation hubs all available QR code posted on a blog, gogle likes google and thats good SEO. So it's more than a link it could be five links combined into one QR code.

Nov 13, 2012 12:01 PM

Melissa Marro

Keller Williams First Coast Realty - The Marro Team - Orange Park, FL

Jacksonville Real Estate and Home Staging

Sorry that I somehow got behind on responding to comments...

Steve - what took the most time for me was going back through old posts.

Mark - you are welcome!

Debbie - that is pretty impressive!

Cindy - what did you find?

Michael - I still don't understand QR codes online. Links seem better to me for that. When you are online it is visual. For me, QR should be for print.

Nov 13, 2012 09:26 PM

Wayne B. Pruner

Oregon First - Tigard, OR

Tigard Oregon Homes for Sale, Realtor, GRI

Good for you and thanks for the tip. Is Google promoting it's self?

Nov 27, 2012 12:24 PM