Long Term vs. Short Term SEO Keywords for Your Real Estate Website

SEO can be a little intimidating to the untrained eye. In fact, many real estate agents shy away from developing a full-fledged SEO strategy because they think it’s too complicated.

This idea couldn’t be further from the truth. A strategy that’s built around targeted long term and short term SEO keywords can give your real estate website a major boost in the search engine results pages (SERPs), and it’s relatively easy to set up.

In this post, we’ll tackle how to choose long term and short term SEO keywords for your real estate website, and we’ll also talk about how to begin using those keywords in the beginning stages of your content strategy. If you’re an SEO beginner, feel free to take a look at our beginner’s guide for real estate agents.

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How to Tell a Story with Your Real Estate Blog

Storytelling is in our blood. Humans have told each other stories ever since we started scrawling on cave walls.

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Our history with stories shows; even now, stories are a fundamental part of our communication, and we learn best through sharing personal experiences with one another. Our physiology reflects this as well – our brains become more active while telling or listening to stories.

Businesses can use these facts to their advantage. With stories, brands can captivate and attract people to their business with a greater likelihood that those people will convert into lifelong clients. Stories build on universal emotions that make businesses more approachable and human-like.

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5 Reasons Why You Might Need a Site Redesign

Here at Union Street Media, our clients often ask us a common question: “When do I know that my site needs a redesign?” After consulting our team of designers, developers, and internet marketers, we came up with the following reasons for why you might need a site redesign for your real estate website.

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How to Create a Vision for Your Real Estate Blog

Last week, we talked about how to build a strong brand voice for your real estate company. This week, we’re going to take the brand voice you created and push you one step further; we’ll teach you to create a vision for your real estate blog and incorporate your brand voice into your writing.

Blogs are essential to the success of your real estate company. In fact HubSpot found that 92% of companies who blog multiple times a day acquired a customer through their blog. Blogs are lead generators – especially for real estate agents.

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Surprising Ways to Increase Your Click-Through Rates

If you’re a real estate agent that wants to expand your web presence, read on. SEO is often the foundation of most internet marketing strategies, but PPC ads offer critical support to the success of your SEO efforts. Need proof? Wordstream conducted a study that found that PPC ads account for 64.6% of clicks for keywords with high commercial intent, compared to only 35.4% of clicks for organic results.

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How to Capture More Sales Through Better Lead Engagement

Every real estate agent wants to boost their sales numbers. The problem is this: too many agents stick to outdated strategies for nurturing leads, and their sales numbers take a hit in the process. So how can you capture more sales through better lead engagement? We’ve spent the last few years tinkering with lead generation strategies, and we came up with a proven list of ways to nurture your leads into successful sales.

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Prepping Your Website for the Busy Season, Part 3: Connecting on Social Media

[This article is the third post of our four-part series on how to prep your website for the busy season. Look for the following posts over the next few weeks to make sure that your website is ready for the rush.]

We’ve already talked about market research for the real estate busy season and how to capture the influx of buyers and sellers online. Now, we’ll talk about something even more important: how to connect with those buyers and sellers on social media.

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How to Create a Vision for Your Social Media Presence

bigstock-From-Point-A-To-Point-B-41405269Planning is the key to a successful social media strategy. That may seem like a no-brainer, but what about the step that comes before planning? Planning is important, but a company vision is the key to a successful plan. Don’t worry; we don’t mean a vision like those late-night commercials for phony psychics. We mean a vision in its truest sense: the ability to see. Before you start a strategic plan for your company’s social media strategy, you should be able to see, analyze, and understand who you are as a business. If you don’t have a clear starting point and an equally clear destination, your company will struggle to succeed at social media and your efforts will take twice as much time and energy. Not to mention: how will you ever know once you’ve reach success? You can’t reach Point B unless you know where Point A is.Time to do some soul searching. To create a vision for your social media presence, think through these three questions:

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