I’ve just been asked to set up a pilot project for a local Century 21 brokerage. It involves setting up a domain for the listing as well as Google marketing for the individual property. This will be my first experience setting up a website address for an individual property as well as trying to use a “Google This” property marketing technique. 60 Battery Point, Prince Edward Island will be the test listing with the domain 60batterypoint.com being used.

It is important to do a pilot project because the brokerage has 400 plus listings and they want to make sure it works before they invest in all those domains. I’m hoping the property domain will be indexed organically (not paid for) but I’m also setting up Google Adword campaign on the property to see if it gets any clicks. The only issue with the century21.ca site is there is no tracking system available (analytics) yet so it will be hard to see if it is getting any traffic..

Only real way to tell if anybody is searching for 60 Battery Point will be the Google Adwords data. Stickers have been made with the web address indicated as well as a Google prompt for the sign on the property. There will also probably be a mention of it in print adversting. Worst case scenario is that the property owner will be happy we’re leveraging the internet to increase the chance of selling the property.

Hopefully it works...

Google 60 Battery Point

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9 Comments on Google This Property Experimentation

SEP
11
2008
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Hi there.  Why don't they use an existing system like Postlets.com which essentially does the same thing.  I'm not 100% certain but I think you can tweek the postlets to get the same basic result. ~ Evelyn

11:26am • #1
347,678 Points 30 Featured Posts Outside Blog

I do this for all my listings and it works.  I use RealBird.com and many times I use the .info sites for only $ 0.99 per site (Real Bird is free).  When I have higher end listings or several listings in an area, I'll buy the .com's.

check out some of my sites:

www.PalmettoHarbor.com 

http://www.thepalmson5th.com

 

11:32am • #2
SEP
12
2008

mmm I can see them being hesitant posting the listing information up again.  It is already done twice, once for the MLS system as well as for the century21.ca platform.  I will have to do a test run with the sites listed above to see if they will get the results they want. Thanks for the help!

8:37am • #3
OCT
06
2008
OCT
10
2008
2 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Check out another tool -- ListingProducer.com -- they offer single property domain websites and they can roll them all together to give your Broker even more control over their marketing.  You can get special pricing if you do bulk orders.  Check out http://www.APRSites.com as an example

3:04pm • #5
DEC
05

Update: Using Google for individual properties is working out for a test project I did on a higher priced house 215 Sundance Lane.  It got up to 200 views last month....

10:45am • #6
DEC
13
208,338 Points 7 Featured Posts Outside Blog

I dont understand setting up an individual website for each property. I have blogged about individual listings and got them to rank well. But each site basically means starting over.

8:35am • #8
DEC
18
2 Featured Posts Outside Blog

the tools work and help with SEO -- especially if your creative in using the description and key word fields when posting the listing - I use listingproducer.com that have a variety of features that help additionally market the property.

1:58pm • #9

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