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Services for Real Estate Pros with Personal SEO - Website SEO and Real Estate Marketing

You have a website. You want that website to rank. You want potential leads to find your website, click on the ‘contact you’ button or sign up for a newsletter and eventually become a customer. But how do they find your website? SEO, search engine optimization, or even a newer term SEM, search engine marketing, is all about taking the website that you have and turning it into a website people love, will click on, and sign up. Designing the website and throwing it out into the interwebs will not get you business. You must market that website just as you would any other business. So, you opened a storefront somewhere. If you've opened that store out of the middle of Timbuktu and nobody ever passes and you never have a commercial for it, send out flyers, or advertise it in any way, no one will find it. The same goes for your website.

If it's simply sitting out there on page 5382 of the Google search engine, no one will come across it and no one will buy your product or service. That’s why search engine optimization is so vital to getting a website found and ultimately getting leads.Google search

I have people calling all the time or emailing us because they want something done to their site, but they don't know what. They know they need help but have no idea how to get there. That's understandable. Most people know their job, product or service. They are not proficient in both marketing AND their service or product. It doesn't mean they can't be, but it does take time, effort and a lot of research, DAILY.

It also means doing a lot of different things to market your website. You can't simply blog on the website because then you're just working in a tunnel. Again, if no one is getting to your site they're not going to read the fabulous information you are providing. (We still hope you are writing amazing and important content). You can't simply throw your website out on a few social media sites once every few months.

Search engine optimization comes down to about 50-100 little things are working together to make your website great and found.

You can either do it yourself or you can pay someone to do it for you. You probably know your service, job or product better than an outside marketer, so, the information you want your clients or customers to know about really should be your job. But again, that also takes time. There are ghostwriters and copywriters that write basic content for your website. Personal SEO business does this for a variety of businesses and people. However, we make sure that we are writing legitimate, accurate, authoritative and important information for whomever we are writing for. If you choose to create your own content, a marketing company (Personal SEO) can promote that content for you.

Writing ContentOne of the biggest mistakes business owners make is hiring a company that does not write legitimate content. If you are paying a company that outsources their material to a different country that doesn't even speak your language, you're going to have a lot of grammatical and spelling errors and it's just not going to read correctly. Plus, they not even provide accurate information for your service or business. So, having a ghost writer can be useful, but you want to make sure that the writer understands your business and is writing content that you approve of and is accurate.

From here, you need to promote not only your website but the great content you do create. This can be done in the form of social media, blogging on someone else's website for related content and offering a link back to your website or on content promotion websites such as Scoop-it, Flipboard, or Co-promote.

It's also important to gather back links from various sources. A high-quality back link can be worth 300 mediocre or low-quality back links. You also want to make sure never to buy back links. There is no quick way to get excellent ratings. If anyone promises you the moon when it comes to search engine optimization or it seems too good to be true, it always is. You will spend more time fixing bad SEO mistakes than you will ever spend creating good moves.

WHAT WE DO

For years, we've had three different levels of search engine optimization marketing options. Our Level 1 has just been one blog post or article for your website a month. Now, we do research the information in a blog post to make sure that it is accurate and localized for the area if applicable. But then we also promote that information on a variety of social media sites and content promotion sites. This gets the site out there and keeps the site active. While this may not drive an enormous number of leads to your website every month, it keeps your website active, keeps fresh content revolving on the website, and keeps the website in front of Google and other search engines. If the website is already doing well, this is a good way to maintain rankings and continually keep the information in front of your customer’s eyes.

Our Level 2 is one blog or article a week. This keeps the site even more active. Google visits websites every so often to see if there is any change or activity on the website. If you find that there is activity every week, the search engine may return to the website more often. If there's additional changes, Google search robots will come back again even more frequently. The more often Google searches your site and finds something new, the more important it will rank it. Also, your site will get in front of customers more often on the social media outlets and on promotion sites.

Our Level 3 is two blogs or articles a week. But, this also goes beyond in that we do more research for the website. We make sure that we’re not just working on the website and promoting the website but working off-site in other content creation scenarios and linking back from guest blog posts, high-quality article writing sites and gaining back links from.edu or.gov sites.

We have always said, we sometimes work ourselves out of a jobWe love to teach, coach, consultant and train people to do their own search engine optimization and marketing. Many people have a desire to learn it and do it themselves. Not only will it save them marketing dollars, but they can learn a new skill to help any website in any business that they are in.

While we do hold onto a few secrets for our customers. We really want to be transparent to anyone reading our information. We want to be able to showcase the most important aspects of marketing, how to do it yourself, and how to stay active.

SEO Coaching

Our most recent launch was with an SEO Coaching option. For a limited time, we're offering our coaching and consulting membership at just $35 a month. This will give you access to automated marketing reports, give you the tools and secrets to fix any marketing or optimization problems your site might currently be having, review all your marketing data in one place, manage your links, research your competitors, and have one-on-one personalized phone consultations each month. No other coaching service that we have found does all of these things for this price. We will also offer customized videos to tell you how to redirect any old links, help you find your niche in the online world, create dynamic posts and pages for your website, create awesome call to action buttons and taglines and effectively build back links to your site. We even tell you how to manage and market your website on social media.

Yes, it's a lot. But, you can do this. Just a few hours a month is really all it takes to understand and implement some of the major SEO tactics that can set your website apart and get more leads to your business. It's not about just being found; it's about getting leads that puts more dollars into your pocket. If you're interested in learning about our new coaching program and what all that entails us a call anytime (or about any of our plans). You are welcome to check out our coaching page for more details. This coaching program is in BETA form at the moment. Prices will be going up once we get our initial limit.

As much as I hate cheesy advertising and marketing, there's really no other way to tell you all that we do and how you can do it for yourself and your business.

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Personal SEO Tim and Tammy Emineth

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Tim and Tammy Emineth have owned Personal SEO since 2004. We focus on SEO first whether it's blogging, images, website design, IDX solutions and calls to action. We operate with a Storybrand philosophy to encourage more traffic to your site, more eyes on your content and more leads to your business. Call us or email us for a free website audit.

Tim: 425-443-8372  Tammy: 425-344-0677

Comments (10)

Kristin Johnston - REALTOR®
RE/MAX Platinum - Waukesha, WI
Giving Back With Each Home Sold!

Wow, that is  a Ton of great information...I will have to come back to it!

Mar 20, 2017 07:47 AM
Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
Probate Real Estate Services

I am happy to see you get into coaching and teaching SEO and SEM.  The one thing that really rings in my head is the outsourcing when the work is being done by people who do not know the area.  I wish you all the best and continued success and happiness. 

Mar 20, 2017 09:05 AM
Tammy Emineth

Thanks Kathleen! and always thanks for the mentions! :)


 

Mar 20, 2017 09:42 AM
Grant Schneider
Performance Development Strategies - Armonk, NY
Your Coach Helping You Create Successful Outcomes

Hi Tammy - one big problem is people expecting a silver SEO bullit who do NOT understand their business or their target audience.

Mar 20, 2017 11:41 AM
Tammy Emineth

Oo, that's good! True. you mean, the business owner doesn't even know THEIR OWN BUSINESS enough?  True! They need to know their audience and how to reach them in order to market to them properly.

Mar 20, 2017 11:53 AM
Gita Bantwal
RE/MAX Centre Realtors - Warwick, PA
REALTOR,ABR,CRS,SRES,GRI - Bucks County & Philadel

Thank you for the great tips. I will bookmark this post.

Mar 20, 2017 09:39 PM
Robert Vegas Bob Swetz
Las Vegas, NV

Hello Tammy

Some great information and your post has been featured to the group:

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Apr 04, 2017 08:33 PM
Tammy Emineth

OMG Thanks Robert! I totally didn't even see this. Thank you! :)

Apr 26, 2017 11:55 AM
Mark Loewenberg
KW of the Palm Beaches - Palm Beach Gardens, FL
KW 561-214-0370

Robert Knows His Stuff! great post again and again and again Tammy!

Apr 26, 2017 05:25 PM
Andrew Mooers | 207.532.6573
MOOERS REALTY - Houlton, ME
Northern Maine Real Estate-Aroostook County Broker

Never read a blog post you created Tammy Emineth that did not inspire. SEO, SEM, it's all AOK and so SOS important to be seen, found, clicked, swiped, tap tap tapped. Otherwise you sink and stink in the search results.

Apr 29, 2017 04:00 AM
Laura Cerrano
Feng Shui Manhattan Long Island - Locust Valley, NY
Certified Feng Shui Expert, Speaker & Researcher

I'm seeing more and more that built-in SEO it's becoming a thing on a lot of websites and all of the services. This is not a bad thing!

Jun 05, 2017 10:20 PM
Dave Halpern
Dave Halpern Real Estate Agent, Inc., Louisville, KY (502) 664-7827 - Louisville, KY
Louisville Short Sale Expert

Search engine optimization is especially important these days as national companies are are clogging up the top search engine results.

Jul 14, 2017 08:47 PM
Thomas J. Nelson, REALTOR ® e-Pro CRS RCS-D Vets
Big Block Realty 858.232.8722 - La Jolla, CA
CEO of Vision Drive Realty - Coastal San Diego

Great advice here, good content, legitimate content and then promotion. 

The back links have always been a challenge for me to secure; knowing who, how many and convincing the other site owner toexecute on the exchange of them.

Nov 07, 2017 06:19 AM