Real Estate Content and Article Marketing

Article marketing is an in expensive way of driving traffic to your real estate website. Most people who use the internet are looking for information. So if you provide information that is worth while, they will click on the link to your website to see if you have more information available.

What are the benefits of article marketing, especially for real estate agents? There are several benefits, such as:

* Articles can drive traffic to your website each time someone clicks on the link in the author's box.
* Generating traffic can be completely free if you write your own articles. Even if you hire someone to write the articles for you or buy articles with private label rights, it is still inexpensive. Original articles can cost anywhere from $5 to $25 each, and prewritten PLR (Private Label Rights) articles can be just a few dollars each. Membership sites focused on prewritten PLR articles for real estate, like Agent Success Club, can make them even more affordable.
* You will get free incoming links to your website if you submit your articles to article directories. All of the directories allow you to put your website URL in the author's box. If people like your article they may decide to visit your website to see what else you have to offer.
* Since internet marketing is all about building trust with your customer, writing articles will set you up as an expert in your area which, in turn, will increase your creditability with people who read your articles. The end result will be increased conversions of website visitors to clients.

Submitting your articles to an article directory means that other people can use your articles on their sites. If they do, you get free incoming links to your website. Some of the giant article directories are EzineArticles and ArticleCity.

The way it works is you write your article (or modify your prewritten PLR article), making sure you include your name and a link to your web site (even your photo if you want), and submit it to the e-zine of your choosing (or use a service like Article Marketer to submit your articles to lots of sites at the same time). Then publishers (web site owners) who are looking for free content to use in their newsletters, on their websites and blogs go to the e-zine article directories. If they choose your article, they will put it on their website giving you full credit by including your byline as a requirement for its use.

The advantage of having all of those one-way incoming links from all of the articles you've written is that your website will get a much higher ranking in the search engines. If you make certain that you include your local information in the web page meta tags, you may even get the number one spot for local searches. There are meta tags for "city", "state" and "zip code". You need to include this information on every page on your website. Why?

Let's say you live in Nashville, Tennessee. An individual in Pennsylvania who is being transferred to Nashville goes to Google and types in "real estate agent +Nashville +tn". If you included your local information and have been doing article marketing, your site could be listed on the first page of the search results. I'm sure you can see how this will be an advantage for you. It works for local customers as well as out-of-towners.

About the Author

Matt Coy is the Founder/President of InFront Tools, and the developer of Agent Success Club, an innovative new membership site for real estate professionals. Visit AgentSuccessClub.com to see how our customized marketing & property CDs, personalized calculators, private label articles, newsletter maker, and other tools can revolutionize your online marketing.

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Educational Sales Tips With Blogs vs. Websites

The question often times arises of what is the difference between a blog and a website.And despite many common misconceptions, the answer to this question is quite simple: A blog and a website are the same thing because a blog is a website.Blogs, or Web logs as they are sometimes referred to, started out as a way for a select few computer savvy individuals to keep online diaries.

A small group of so-called computer whizzes used blogs to record their daily activities and publish the record on the World Wide Web.Over time, however, the group of people who used blogs expanded and more and more people began to use blogs both in a leisurely and professional manner.Before long, blogs became commonplace on the Web, and people began accepting them as another credible source of Web information.Although many critics believed that blogs were nothing short of a dying fad that would never survive the test of time, history has revealed that blogs have made a lasting impact on the way people do business on the Internet.

Now people everywhere are using blogs for a variety of purposes, most notably to make money online.Even to a greater degree than other areas of the Internet business, blogging has become a very simple way to make money.Internet business people are now confronted with the question of whether to start a blog or a website when establishing an Internet business.Marketers and business people frequently ask whether it is better to start a blog or a website, and to answer this question they need to know the differences and similarities between the two.

To begin with, it is very important to understand that in many ways, a blog is a website.In fact, a blog can appropriately be labeled the modern version of a website.If an Internet business person wishes to do so, he or she can format a blog so that it appears no different than a traditional website, but the added flexibility of a blog gives it more advantages than the traditional website.It can be said that a website takes more work to create and is much more difficult to make changes to than a blog.This is because blogs are created with the specific purpose in mind of allowing individuals to update them as frequently as needed after all, blogs evolved from the online diary concept.

The benefit of having a simple method of updating a blog provides bloggers with the advantage of being able to remain current.This is particularly important when it comes to search engine optimization because staying current leads to staying on the top of the search engine.Simply put, blogs provide Internet business people with a very important search engine optimization tool because bloggers can adjust keywords along with the changing times.

Although blogs have their many advantages, they do not render the traditional website obsolete.An Internet business person would be wise to have a solid traditional website in addition to creating a blog.This way, the blog can direct consumers back to the traditional website to make a purchase.In sum, to keep up with the times, Internet business people need to have both a blog and a traditional website

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