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When a search is done on Google, searchers are presented with an array of search results. Organic search results are located below paid search ads, but often enjoy a better click through rate as searchers prefer the search engine selection of webpages to that of ads. Search results are presented to searchers based on relevance. There are a number of areas that can be optimised on your real estate website to increase your relevance for innumerable searches.
With most property searches originating online, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that prospective clients can find your real estate website easily. Can you be found on Google organically or through paid search? Here's the difference and benefits of each.
After about a year of relative inactivity, is Google's Panda back from the dead? Multiple webmaster forums, including industry leaders, have reported that Google's latest update appears to focus primarily on the quality of content on a website. Are you making the most of your real estate website?
In a world of instant communications, you can no longer expect to send out a press release or similar kind of real estate news piece, wait for publication and expect to generate interest in your real estate business.
We’ve recently covered the how and why of a Google My Business listing, however not all listings are equal. What makes one listing more valuable or more effective than another?
We have recently covered the importance of localised search and simply being found with more and more online transactions taking place on mobile devices.
We’ve covered the importance of branded email correspondence as well as regular email newsletters for your real estate company. We’ve also established that regular news updates to your website can help convert website visitors into active leads. So we’ve established that news remains important, but what exactly makes up news?
We covered the importance of localised search as far back as 2013, fast forward to 2015 and it is quite clear that local search is a leading source of business to most companies. The drastic rise in mobile use has also helped promote localised search with the major search engines tailoring search results directly based on your location.
So you’ve (re)developed your website with the aim of generating leads for your real estate business. While there are numerous ways of generating traffic to your website, traffic from organic search remains the most cost effective way of promoting your website and generating leads. By optimising your website for the search engines you increase the likelihood of reaching an ever increasing audience and growing your real estate business online.
In recent weeks we’ve covered various best practices of search optimisation, email and paid online marketing. There are however numerous other methods of generating traffic to your website that are often overlooked. While less likely to generate the volumes of traffic the above mentioned sources, these may help improve the overall quality of traffic to your website, improving the likelihood of a conversion from visitor into client.
