{"id":496,"date":"2007-03-19T19:43:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2022-10-13T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T16:30:02","slug":"40-ways-make-a-great-real-estate-agent-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/40-ways-make-a-great-real-estate-agent-website\/","title":{"rendered":"40 ways to make a great real estate agent website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>40 ways to make a great real estate agent website<\/p>\n<p>1. add a blog: write about you, your business, your expertise, your area, etc<br \/>\n2. write a good biography that talks about you, your education, past employment, places you&#8217;ve lived&#8230;<br \/>\n3. include home page content that contains your full name, company name, neighbourhoods you work, phone number, etc<br \/>\n4. add video about yourself<br \/>\n5. get testimonials from clients, be sure to include their full names as it adds more credibility to the testimonial<br \/>\n6. get rid of all canned content and take the time to write your own text in its place<br \/>\n7. add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meebome.com\/\">Meebo<\/a> to your site so that you can chat with your visitors<br \/>\n8. use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\">Google Analytics<\/a> to track your traffic<br \/>\n9. add a feature listing to your home page, be sure to change it every few weeks<br \/>\n10. make your cell phone and email address known, have them on every page<br \/>\n11. subscribe your blog&#8217;s rss feed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\">feedburner.com<\/a><br \/>\n12. use Google Maps to promote your listing<br \/>\n13. subscribe your website to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/accounts\/ServiceLogin?service=sitemaps&amp;continue=https:\/\/www.google.com%2Fwebmasters%2Ftools%2Fsiteoverview%3Fhl%3Den&amp;nui=1&amp;hl=en\">Google Sitemaps<\/a> to ensure that Google is up to speed on your website&#8217;s activity<br \/>\n14. update your title tags to be descriptive for each page of your website<br \/>\n15. add a page to your website for each neighbourhood that you specialize in<br \/>\n16. add links to products and services that you recommend<br \/>\n17. people love stats, keep your visitors up to date with market stats and conditions<br \/>\n18. add your website URL to your email signature<br \/>\n19. ensure that your full contact info are on your contact page (name, mailing address, phone, company name, fax, etc)<br \/>\n20. add your sold listings to your site<br \/>\n21. add property searches<br \/>\n22. send out a press release announcing your new website<br \/>\n23. add some photos of you and your clients, family, city&#8230;<br \/>\n24. register a easy to remember domain name and point it to your website<br \/>\n25. pay attention your listing description (for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyro2.cluster.ubertor.com\/documents\/examples\/description\/la_times.pdf\">example<\/a>: adding &#8220;Good-value&#8221; sells for 5% less than average)<br \/>\n26. don&#8217;t add banner or link advertising<br \/>\n27. add the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\">feedburner<\/a> email newsletter option that will email your subscribes your blog posts &#8211; for free<br \/>\n28. get some <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/index.php?cat=36\">blog interviews<\/a> from interesting personalities (makes for good reading and adds more &#8220;stickiness&#8221; to your website<br \/>\n29. add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnhere.com\">neighbourhood<\/a> videos that depict areas you work in<br \/>\n30. discuss groups, boards, volunteer activity, meetups, classes that you participate in<br \/>\n31. add your listings to <a href=\"http:\/\/craigslist.org\">craigslist.org<\/a> and be sure add a link to your website<br \/>\n32. no listings? add your services to the &#8220;real estate services&#8221; section of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslist.org\">craigslist.org<\/a> (be sure to hyperlink to your site)<br \/>\n33. add a rentals section to your website and let your clients know you will help them rent their place<br \/>\n34. add a privacy policy<br \/>\n35. add as many photos to your listings as you can<br \/>\n36. add a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/?p=484\">unique domain to promote your listings<\/a> (its a great way to make the owner feel special &#8211; plus you could give the domain to whoever buys the home as a unique gift<br \/>\n37. write quality content on your buyers and sellers pages to entice your website visitors to give you their contact information<br \/>\n38. add your blog articles to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realestatevoices.com\">realestatevoices.com<\/a><br \/>\n39. answer common questions that you are asked right in your blog<br \/>\n40. make sure your companies website, your mls and any other site you have a profile on is linking to your website<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a new website?  Check out our current promotions at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubertor.com\">www.ubertor.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livehelp.ubertor.com\/\">Questions<\/a> &#8211; chat with our client service team for more information!<\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/40-ways-make-a-great-real-estate-agent-website\/' data-title='40 ways to make a great real estate agent website' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/40-ways-make-a-great-real-estate-agent-website\/' data-title='40 ways to make a great real estate agent website' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 ways to make a great real estate agent website 1. add a blog: write about you, your business, your expertise, your area, etc 2. write a good biography that talks about you, your education, past employment, places you&#8217;ve lived&#8230; 3. include home page content that contains your full name, company name, neighbourhoods you work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14981,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/14981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}