Blogging Category Archive
Where are the Texas RE Bloggers?
03 Apr 2006 09:09 am
03 Apr 2006 09:09 am
In creating Cy-Fair Real Estate, I scoured the internet for existing real estate blogs to get a better idea about how to start this site. To my surprise, I had very little luck finding any blogs dedicated to real estate in Texas, and I have yet to find one dedicated to real estate in the Houston area.Most REALTOR web sites out there are not very unique. They all seem to have the same general information:
- Listings
- Buyers Guide
- Free Home Valuation
- Testimonials
- About us
- Contact us
Some of the more detailed sites may have information about communities and schools. However, there is not anything in these sites that really sets them apart.
With a real estate blog, your potential clients will always see updated information about your area of expertise. This in turn will hopefully get them to frequent your site more often which will play a large part in these potential clients thinking about you when it is time for them to make a real estate transaction.
Also, with unique site content, increased web traffic, and other blogging sites linking to your site, you will get a higher search engine ranking which means more exposure.
There are a lot of good real estate blogs out there. One of the ones that I have frequented in the weeks leading up to getting this site off the ground is Seattleā??s Rain City Guide. Not only is it a very well put together blog that is constantly updated, Dustin has several posts about blogging and how it relates to real estate. One of them includes 7 Reasons For Real Estate Agents To Blog which gives more detailed information on this very topic.
Lastly, Northern Virginia Real Estate and Rain City Guide have both been blogging March 2005. Take a look at how each of their number of visits have skyrocketed over the past year:
I think you would be very hard pressed to find any static REALTOR web site with similar unique visitor numbers!