4 Quick Tips to Getting Free Internet Traffic and Search Engine Rankings

Here are 4 places and tips you can use to start getting more traffic to your real estate website and traffic from Google and other search engines.

By implementing these resources and strategies you can see immediate results along with results that may take a week to a month to take effect.

The main thing is that these are all low cost or free ways to get traffic, leads and home sales.

1. Create Ads for Online Classified Ads / Craigslist / Backpage.com

Online classifieds for Craigslist, Backpage and others is a great way to start genrating website traffic. The same ad content for Craigslist should also be posted on your blog as well with links back to the website.

Remember that classified ads and websites are useless if they are not built to "convert" traffic into contact information so make sure you include the search for homes, auto email sign up link and a CMA request link on the ad in addition to a link back to the listing itself.

If people come on to the online classified and see they can search all homes in the area, sign up for auto email or do a CMA request you have a better chance of capturing contact information.

In addition make sure your title lines and headlines include keyword phrases since the ultimate goal is to get these ads to rank in Google.

If you can consistantly run 5-10+ ads you will see a good boost in your website traffic and leads.

This blog article provides some more good information and resources
http://www.realtown.com/MillionDollarHomeSellingSystem/blog/creating-craiglist-ads

2. Posting Videos on YouTube.com

Posting videos on YouTube.com is important for a group of reasons
and getting on there is essential for gorwing your business.

The goals of Youtube.com include

A. Increasing the conversion rates on your website - Video content has been shown to increase conversion rates by as much as 300% plus and when people can watch a video of you before making contact it allows them to get to know a bit more about you and your personality

B. YouTube.com is the fastest growing search engine on the planet
The growth of YouTube.com has been expedential and getting yourself ranking in Youtube.com for the areas you service is important - especially since it is new and does not have a lot of competition.

You can create videos on your local community, yourself as an agent / broker, the current status of the real estate market in your area, why buy in "My town USA", Meet real estate agent "Jane Doe / John Doe" plus of course shooting your listings.

C. Getting videos to rank in Google plus indexed in Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader
Getting these videos to rank in Google and in social media sites brings a lot of free traffic and when you submit videos to YouTube.com they will automatically be uploaded to your Twitter, Facebook, and Google Reader accounts so make sure you have those set up before you submit the video. Submitting your videos on your blog is also a great way to create articles and get extra exposure.

For more information on using Youtube.com and tips to make it work visit the RealTown blog article at
http://www.realtown.com/MillionDollarHomeSellingSystem/blog/youtube-or-die

3. Set Up a Google Local Business Directory Listing
This is a great way to get FREE traffic from Google and send more leads to your website and on your phone. The Google Business Directory allows your website to come up in the search results when people are looking for an agent, broker or even searching for real estate. Once the ad is created it can take up to one month before you see results. I have set up well over 100 of these directory listings for agents around the country and they have gotten great results plus Google provides traffic statistics to show you how many people are viewing your ad. - No excuse not to do this one since it is very effective and can be done in a relatively short period of time. There are a few tips for getting the listing to rank in the top ten so if you need help email me at getinfo@san.rr.com or visit this RealTown blog for more information.

http://www.realtown.com/MillionDollarHomeSellingSystem/blog/google-business-directory-listings-a-must-for-real-estate-agents-brokers

4. Submit Press Releases

Press releases can get you media attention but the ones I am referring to are ones that are designed to rank in search engines. Basically you find a keyword phrase you want to rank under and then write the press release based on that keyword phrase.

Press releases can get some great rankings in Google and normally a well written press release will get a first page ranking in Google within 2 - 24 hours.

Not only do press releases bring in cheap and/or free traffic but they also help build inbound links to your website which helps it rank in the search engines better.

Sample press releases can include
"La Jolla Real Estate Agent Sells 500th Home Listing"
"La Jolla Real Estate Broker Giving Back to La Jolla Community"
"La Jolla Short Sale Listings Popular Amongst Home Buyers"
etc.....

If you submit your press release to more than one service then alter the title line and summary section.

Submit the press release article to your blog, your Myspace.com page, your free Google website, your personal website and anywhere else you can including the "local news" section of Craigslist.com

Here is a list of places that provide online press release services
http://www.realestatemarketingnerds.com/marketingpackages/pressreleases.html

Some press release services charge and some do it for free - I normally stay with the free ones and the cheap ones that cost $20 or less - when you pay the service you get from free SEO work included so the cost is worth it. The free ones also do a good job but they will place Adsense ads on the article.

For more information on press releases visit the Realtown blog article at
http://www.realtown.com/MillionDollarHomeSellingSystem/blog/get-first-page-rankings-in-google-using-press-releases

Sample of how some of this works -

Here is some work I did with a local broker in North County San Diego.

If you type in "shadowridge vista real estate" in Google you will see we were able to get videos, a press release and also a Google Business Directory Listing to rank on the first page of search results. Click the link below to view the search results.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=1h&oq=shadowridge&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4SKPB_enUS344US344&q=shadowridge+vista+real+estate

I have been messing around with YouTube.com, Google traffic tools, social media sites and online classifieds for quite a while and have had some great success.

It can take a little time and some trial and error to get it all flowing but if you take the time and get started you can start getting some good traffic and results to your website and make some additional home sales.

I have gotten over 20,000 free visitors from the Google Business Directory Listings, over 850,000 video views on Youtube.com in the last 18 months, over 40,000 visitors from free and cheap press releases in the last 12 months and tons of great response from online classifieds so I know it works.

If you take the time to start implementing these tools in your online marketing campaign you too can get results and not have to spend an arm and a leg to do it.

If you have questions or need help email me at getinfo@san.rr.com
or call me at 858-731-7278 and I will do the best I can to answer your questions or help with some of the work.

Remember that the Internet is a lot of "R & D" - some research and development but mainly "rob and duplicate", so try to find what is working and duplicate that business model.

Best wishes to your success!

Sean Callahan
www.realestatemarketingnerds.com
www.socalbeachmag.net
www.recessionproofhomebiz.com