Welcome to part 2 of our SEO Guide for Real Estate Investors, where you will learn everything you need to know about SEO. Last week we talked about how to determine the right keywords for real estate investors, what they are, and how to use them for your real estate investor website. This week we will be talking about user interactions with inbound and outbound links. Let’s go!
Online SEO Guide Part 1: Keywords
In this SEO guide series, you will learn everything you need to know about SEO. As you know from reading our previous blogs, “3 Take-Off Strategies For Your Real Estate Investor Website” and “5 Tips For Building A Wholesale Buyers List Fast”, SEO (or search engine optimization), is an essential part of having and maintaining a successful real estate investor website. But we’ve haven’t talked in depth about what it is that makes SEO so important.
Strategy For Long Term Success With Your Real Estate Investor Website
A few weeks ago we talked about a short-term take off strategy for your real estate investor website. This week we will be talking about how to maintain long term success online. If you’re a serious real estate investor, having a website isn’t just for short-term success. You’re in it for the long haul.
It may seem like you are adding content, and adding your website to directories and seeing nothing in return. This is why most people give up after 4 months. But that’s good for you, that means less competition! We’re going to talk about what to do long-term so that you know there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Craigslist Ad Strategy For Real Estate Investors
What do you do when nobody knows your website even exists? You tell people about it! More importantly, you tell the right people about it. The right people being people who are looking for your service. Building a successful Craigslist ad strategy can impact your Real Estate Investing Business more than you think.
Despite what you may think, these people are searching Craigslist, so it’s very easy to get in front of them. With ease comes competition. Other investors also post on Craigslist, but you can beat them by being more consistent – meaning that they post daily.
3 Take-Off Strategies For Your Real Estate Investor Website
Having a real estate investor website is the first step to getting more leads and ultimately growing your business. Having a successful real estate investor website is the second step.
There are two methods to use when working on building your web presence for your website. The first is a take-off strategy (the one which we’ll talk about in this blog post), and the second is the long-term strategy (which we’ll talk about in another blog). Both strategies boil down to the same thing: getting your site traffic.
10 Follow Up Tips to Convert Your Real Estate Leads Into Deals
This post originally appeared on the REImobile blog.
1. Diversifying Communication Platforms (Don’t underestimate texting!)
Real estate investments depends on converting leads into profitable deals, and all of that is done through communication. Diversifying your platforms for follow up will help you convert your real estate leads better. Through emailing, calling, and texting, there are many different channels to effectively communicate with your lead. While those platforms are all worth using, the most effective method out there has to be texting.
5 Tips for Building a Wholesale Buyers List Fast
What is wholesaling? Well, to start, wholesaling is buying a house and selling it to another real estate investor as is. That means, no flipping, no rehabbing, no renovating, nothing. The wholesale is buying it from the seller, then turning around and selling it directly to a real estate investor. And that’s it.
Why Am I Not Getting Real Estate Leads From My Website?
So, you’ve set up your real estate website, you’ve put in the work, and what happened? Crickets. I feel your pain.
This is what happens to the vast majority of people that set up websites, so know you are not alone. The internet is a very crowded place with real estate investors clamoring to rank so that they snatch up all of the motivated seller leads. It’s not enough to just follow the ‘build it, and they will come’ philosophy anymore. You’ve got to make sure you are set up for success and know what works right now, and what doesn’t.
Easily Increase Your Motivated Seller Lead to Deal Conversion Rate
This post originally appeared on the REImobile.com blog. CLICK HERE to view the post.
As real estate investors, we all need to be constantly focusing on increasing our motivated seller lead to deal conversion rate.
The cost of motivated seller leads is astronomical for most investors. Typically, investors are spending between $150 to $450 or more for each lead!
If we don’t increase how many of those leads we make money from, we could go out of business.
What’s the Real Problem Here
Getting motivated seller leads to build inventory for your house flipping business is only part of the battle.
“I don’t ever get any good leads…”
“You can’t get deals like that where I live…”
These are just some of the statements I hear all the time from real estate investors that don’t have their lead to deal conversion ninja skills honed.
The problem most likely isn’t that they aren’t getting good leads or that those kind of deals can’t be found where they are. They just aren’t converting as many of the leads as they could be.
The problem is almost always that they just don’t know how to properly convert those leads into deals.
How to Generate Real Estate Leads
Why You Need to Generate Real Estate Leads
The short answer is: real estate leads are business. It’s as simple as that. Generating real estate leads for someone with a real estate business is no different than generating consistent business sales for a store. If you don’t get leads, you won’t get deals. And if you don’t get deals, you won’t get a profit.