Content creation has always been at the heart of real estate marketing and advertising, no matter which way you look at it. Providing informational and valuable content is a surefire way to continue to engage your clients and prospects and capture leads. If your blog content is full of value, then it can draw leads in, all while improving your SEO and helping you to establish authority by proving your knowledge in the eyes of potential homebuyers and sellers.

Here’s 4 ways that you can use a real estate blog to help you to establish authority and legitimacy in your market.

1. Show Off Your Expertise in Your Market Area

Your market area is your showroom, and one reason to start a real estate blog is to show off your expertise in the neighborhoods that you work in. Demonstrating your experience and knowledge through content creation is a great way to show potential leads and clients that you mean business. 

How do you show off your expertise? By creating targeted blog posts that provide value to your  real estate website traffic. For example, create hyperlocal neighborhood overviews, which you can fill with details that potential buyers in the area would find useful. This could include information about local school districts, things to do, and seasonal activities that happen in the neighborhood. 

2. Enhance Your SEO and Posts with IDX Integration

If you already have a real estate website to represent your business, chances are you have been using an IDX plugin to provide MLS search and display capabilities to your website traffic. But did you know that you can use certain IDX plugins, like Buying Buddy, that will allow you to embed MLS listings right into your blog posts? 

Many traditional IDX plugins that use iFrames or subdomains may not allow you to use this functionality. But with a real estate IDX plugin like Buying Buddy, you can now embed your blog posts with IDX content to provide real-life real estate examples that will enhance your content creation and allow you to contextualize your marketing efforts. Not only does this allow you to shed light on and showcase your property listings, it also amplifies your content creation by improving your SEO and allowing potential leads to see exactly what types of properties you represent. 

3. Create Posts with Curated Listings to Demonstrate Your Legitimacy

When it comes to establishing authority with your real estate blog, one easy way to achieve that end is by creating posts featuring curations of current and sold listings to show off your knowledge and demonstrate your legitimacy as a real estate agent. Presenting relevant current and sold properties adds interesting and pertinent real estate content to your blog posts. Combining that relevant real estate content with insightful blog posts helps you to present yourself as a knowledgeable and authoritative real estate agent.

What types of listing curations should you create? Take inspiration from your market area. Perhaps you specialize in a neighborhood with plenty of volume for a specific style of home build. Create a list of properties that have sold (sold by you, or your brokerage office) that fall under this specific style of build and mention a few features that often come along with them, then create a blog post with this helpful information that features those listings, along with photo examples to demonstrate your knowledge and authority on the subject. 

4. Informational Posts Create Long-Term Value

Your real estate blog is not just a way for you to demonstrate your experience in your neighborhood markets–it is also a way for you to create long-term value and establish relationships with potential leads and clients. We already mentioned above that showing off your expertise in your market areas establishes authority, but creating posts with long-term value can also aid you in that quest as well by enhancing your SEO and ability to reach more traffic with your real estate website. 

What types of informational posts should you create? For holidays and seasonal events as we’ve already mentioned in our previous blog, one idea is to create blog posts highlighting neighborhoods that are great to drive through to see the lights, or create a blog post featuring all of the holiday events coming up in your market areas. Not only do these types of posts create value for years to come, they can also help you to enhance your reach by improving your SEO. 

The Value of a Real Estate Blog Cannot Be Overstated
Your blog is a place to establish your authority and credibility in the eyes of leads and clients and can be a place of untapped potential when it comes to real estate marketing. Putting the work into creating an authoritative real estate blog is an essential part of creating a splash with your real estate website, and with these tips at your disposal, your blog will become a success in no time at all. 

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