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Real Estate Video on City Websites - Vancouver Washington

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Real Estate Agent with Realty One Group Cascadia

vancouver wa real estateJanice and I signed up for a pretty cool service a few months back and it is getting ready to launch in the next few weeks. There is a video production company which has contracted with various cities across the U.S. to provide video content for their city websites. The city website for Vancouver Washington gets over 100,000 hits a month! The production company produces video segments on the local city sights and attractions. As part of the contract, they are allowed to sell video advertising space to local merchants.

My interest was primarily due to 2 facts.

1-     Google has recently made changes that move city sites to the number one position of any search that uses only their name. For example, The Vancouver, Washington site is the first listed for a search of "Vancouver WA."  

2-     Merchants pages are just one click off of the main city site and my listings will be just 2 clicks off of the city site.

2 ½ - Only 12 real estate agents are allowed to participate at a time.

Another feature of the program is that they produce a video for your business that is attached to the city site and also available for your personal use. It is really just a photo montage but I think it turned out pretty neat. We just got our proof and I thought that I would share it with you.

Go here to see Mark & Janice on Video!

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Comments (3)

Todd Clark - Retired
eXp Realty LLC - Tigard, OR
Principle Broker Oregon

Wow, awesome commercial for you and Janice, now are they going to do this for every city in the United States or is this just for Vancouver right now?

Todd Clark, Helping Families Home - www.IFoundYourNewHome.com

Sep 27, 2008 07:12 AM
Anonymous
Paul

They do it in many towns.  Ours is on our town website.  I forked up the money 2 years ago, and I can say it was the biggest waste of money ever.  I don't think it's really positioned well, and there are SO many clicks to finally get to my video I think it gets lost. 

I wouldn't pay $50 for it again and I could kick myself for spending all that money.  It could have been MUCH better spent elsewhere on something that actually produces results.

The company is called eLocal.  They actually stole some photos from someone I know to put our town video together - which didn't sit that well with me either.  

Sep 27, 2008 07:50 AM
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Mark Hall
Realty One Group Cascadia - Vancouver, WA
Homes for Sale Vancouver Washington

Todd - They are working on getting every city but not everyone is signing up. So, curently it is only in selected cities.

Paul - I think that they have changed the format of the pages because of concerns like yours. The city page that I saw has the real estate agent menu 1 click off of the main page. One click from there will have visitors on whichever agent's site that they chose. Local listings (which are only from the agents signed up) are just 2 clicks off of the main page. Also, on the new page, then entire top of the left menu bar is dedicated to real estate. Pretty hard to miss. BUT, it isn't up yet! I will report as to whether it works well after it is live and running.

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Sep 27, 2008 10:01 AM