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Active Rain Where Everybody Knows Your Name...

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas

Or do they? Our community is built upon exchanges. Exchanges of ideas, knowledge and friendship. Referrals play a large part of our exchange between one another and are helpful to us all including our customers. This brings us to the Main Introduction of our Profile!

It is imperative that you take the time and effort to maximize your Profile for the Members of our Community, your Clients and last but not least...GOOGLE. And, of course we love comments from our Community Members! I know a lot of you by name with a glance of your picture. This is how it should be.

Recently some of the Members leaving comments do not show their name. Now, this makes it truly difficult to get to know you! Not just for Active Rain Members but for the Potential Clients that will click through to your Profile.

Will a Potential Client gravitate to a Profile that just says "XYZ REALTY" or "Patti, your Realtor at XYZ REALTY?"

Personalization is critical to build a Social Networking Profile. There is nothing Social about "XYZ REALTY".

Today, you should revisit your Profile and spiff it up for all of us including GOOGLE! That's a real biggie.

 

 

Create your Profile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go to"My Profile" and click edit.

Use the Catagories to optomize Friendly information and Google placement.

  • Comma after name and add your last name too! We want to know you!
  • Last name category will finish out the info you want to show on your comments. Place commas between your phrases as this tells the Google Bot what phrases to place your Profile under.
  • ADD YOUR NAME TO THE COMPANY NAME. as you want the business personally and you want to let us all know your name!
  • Email is normal.
  • Website URL is open for more than just one site by adding your comma and no spaces. Be sure the add the entire http://www. so it will show up as an active link.
  • Scroll down to the description and use this as a KeyWord rich category. Use comma's or the word "and" to separate your Key Phrases for Google.

 

Be sure to hit save with each step of your revisions!

 

You're gonna love it!

Deb Brooks
Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

Debb, it bugs me too. I have gone to their profiles and STILL not found their names. I hope to help a few people get over their fear of transparency?? And, their placement in Google. I love how your comment gives me all the information I need to start building a relationship!

Jun 30, 2011 08:33 AM
Juan Bassett
Long & Foster - Germantown, MD
GRI

Excellent point Deb, If we don't identify ourselves... how do we expect to be identified. Much less ... contacted.

Jun 30, 2011 08:33 AM
Deb Brooks
Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

Juan, that's a great way to put it! lol...

Jun 30, 2011 08:34 AM
Joni Bailey
101 Main St. Realty - Huntsville, TX
Your Huntsville / Lake Livingston Area REALTOR®
Suggested! I figure that the majority of the time, these folks just have not figured out the system! This sure explains it well! Thank you for taking the time to provide step by step instructions! Bravo!
Jun 30, 2011 08:43 AM
Tammy Lankford,
Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA
Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

I just had one of those comments.  I did find his name and more often than not I go to their profile and see there name before I respond back to  "ABC Realty guy", but I wonder why they don't change it.  I'm with Joni- I suggested this, maybe they don't change it because they don't know how or that they should.  Everyone should read this post. :)

Jun 30, 2011 08:51 AM
Dr. Paula McDonald
Beam & Branch Realty - Granbury, TX
Granbury, TX 936-203-0279

Hey Deb.  This is good stuff.  Will have to go in and revamp my name.

Jun 30, 2011 08:52 AM
Deb Brooks
Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

Thank you Joni! It took me time playing around with it in the beginning but now I find my profile placed in my search engine results. I have had calls from it too. Great juicer, it is! Good to see you here and I wish you a wonderful holiday weekend! I'm going back to Wichita Falls!

Jun 30, 2011 09:00 AM
Deb Brooks
Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

Tammy, I have been doing the very same thing. Going to their profile and clicking where ever I could to find it. But, clients will NOT usually take the time to do that! Thank you for the suggest.

Paula, I think yours looks good! It never hurts to refresh it though!

 

Jun 30, 2011 09:08 AM
Anna "Banana" Kruchten
HomeSmart Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ
602-380-4886

Deb I'm so glad you pointed this out. I've been noticing more of these lately and folks need to learn how to do it so it's good for them!  It's really important stuff!

Featured in BananaTude

Jun 30, 2011 12:06 PM
Deb Brooks
Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

Thank you Anna! I do hope it helps! It took me forever figuring it out on my own. Yea BananaTude! Yea Anna!

Jun 30, 2011 12:09 PM
William Johnson
Retired - La Jolla, CA
Retired

Hi Deb, Just yesterday, I got a comment from a Realty company and clicked on their profile and no where on the page was there a name. So I addressed the comment to Dear Company name. Unless I am just dense and don't get it, I think is stupid to set up a blog and have no ones name to be found, even in the profile. I am suggesting this post Deb.

Jun 30, 2011 05:44 PM
Olga Diaz
COLDWELL BANKER TOMLINSON - Pullman, WA
Potter, Mng Broker, CRS, ASP, ePRO, ABR

Good Information Deb.  I don't understand why someone wouldn't have their information filled out.  It doesn't make any sense to me.  Have a great holiday weekend.

Jul 01, 2011 06:15 AM
Jerry Newman
Brown Realty, 210-789-4216, - San Antonio, TX
Texas REALTOR, San Antonio Military Relocation

Hi Deb, I saw a video that Katrina put out about our profiles and Google earlier, and I took her advice. I too have noticed that some comments don't have their names displayed, and I have to go look at their profiles to find out who they are, and sometimes it is even not in their profiles. Very frustrating!!!

Jul 01, 2011 12:51 PM
Debe Maxwell, CRS
Savvy + Company (704) 491-3310 - Charlotte, NC
The RIGHT CHARLOTTE REALTOR!

Hi Deb!  GREAT tutorial!  Don't leave me in the dust!  I promise we'll get a chance to get to our 'plan!'  Getting ready to go to Seattle and then catching up when I got back has been one crazy experience!  I always think that I can do more than I really can!  LOL

Talk to you soon!  GREAT job on this girlfriend!

Jul 01, 2011 03:49 PM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

Good advice for ActiveRain members. Have a wonderful holiday weekend.

 Blooming for you!

Jul 02, 2011 02:07 AM
Vickie Nagy
Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate - Palm Springs, CA
Vickie Jean the Palm Springs Condo Queen

Some really useful information here. I'm often surprised what I don't know...like the fact that you can list multiiple domains on your profile!

Jul 02, 2011 06:07 AM
Deb Brooks
Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

William, it really bothers me to receive a comment and not know who I'm talking to~they have a picture and I can't call them Hello, Smith Brothers! I too follow through and sometimes I can find a name and sometimes I can't. I don't think they realize how they are hurting themselves by doing this. Thank you so much for the suggest but I don't think this is what AR wanted for some reason! Sometimes I will write one to really help people and it's overlooked and others I will see myself there and wonder..."what were they thinking?" LOL! It's a tough job to make those calls. I would feature all of yours~good thing I'm not behind the button.

Olga, they will learn I hope! Maybe they will come across this and it might help. I hope so. You have a wonderful holiday yourself and remain safe and cool. It's hot as blankety blank here!

 

Jul 02, 2011 10:53 AM
Deb Brooks
Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

Jerry, wait till they start expanding on the University! It's going to help all of us. Good to see you here and you also have a safe and wonderful holiday!

Debe, hee,hee,hee like anyone could leave you in their dust! You have been a busy lady lately (always really) and we will get back together soon! Have a restful couple of days off my friend! Love seeing you here.

Jul 02, 2011 10:55 AM
Kristi DeFazio
RE/MAX Advantage - Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado Springs Rea lEstate 719-459-5468

Deb- You are so right. It is hard to get to know someone when they are listed as only XYZ Realty, etc... I have seen some of your comments lately asking their names on diff. posts. Great Post!

Jul 02, 2011 02:20 PM
Gary Woltal
Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX
Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

I don't like the XYZ Real Estate as a name either, I want a human name with the commenter.

Jul 03, 2011 10:13 AM