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Virtual Tour Product Review

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Spokane4.com

After using and testing several real estate self service virtual tour products, I have decided that there is only on the market right now that makes any sense to use. Before I tell you what company I am recommending, I want to give you a little background.

My experience as a website designer and Search Engine Marketing Professional has led me in search of a virtual provider for some of my customers.  In an attempt to meet not only the customer requirements for appearence, quick load time, ease of use and cost, I have a few requirements of my own.  For the sake of marketing, I also require search engine friendly code, unique website links to individual listings for placing on a variety of websites (and submitting to search engines), amazing customer service and if at all possible a way to also promote my own services.  

I found a company that does actually meet and exceed all of my customers requirements and almost all of mine as well.  The only thing Just Snooping.com is missing is a photographer package (which one of their salesmen has told me is one the way!).

You can argue with me all you want, but they not only provide the best marketing SEO options such as auto linking to listing databases like GoogleBase, Trulia, Oodle, realtor.com, PropBot, Zillow, CityDirectory, and more, but they also have the absolute best search engine friendly code that I have ever seen.  I read a blog just recently touting that same thing about them.  Plus my customers love them because their virtual tours are at the top of the search engines above all of their competitors when searching for virtual tours in their city.  Why would I choose any other company when they make my customers so happy?

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Site Guy
Spokane4.com - Spokane, WA

It did take a little while to load and I do like the floor plan.  Would you mind sharing with us the cost?  I don't mind so much that it isn't really a slide show like tour because it does give you ability to click click on the camera icons, scroll at the bottom and also use the back and next buttons.  Enlarging was a little strange because it covered up over some of the elements rather than scaling all.  Honestly the appearence is very nice but if you look closely at the source code, you will find that there really is no search engine optimization at all.  This can really hurt you in the long run.  If you are the programmer, I recommend redesigning the html below the flash to incorporate the data from the listing to assist you in marketing the listing in search engines.  Here is an example of a very simple looking slide show Virtual Tour that does all that I described above. Even though they have the capability, they did not choose to incorporate any panoramic images like your example did. http://tours.justsnooping.com/2333933/

 

Mar 20, 2008 09:59 AM