I believe this pond is all fished out. There are far too many companies that compete in this space and they market to ALL of the realtors. At least that's what I hear from my family (all in real estate).
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I believe this pond is all fished out. There are far too many companies that compete in this space and they market to ALL of the realtors. At least that's what I hear from my family (all in real estate).
no anger homes. Just need advice, and am frustrated that others are telling me I can capitalize this, and I don't know how. I'm direct, and it sometimes is a downfall.
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I've had decent success with realtors and other professional fields targeting the newbies and independents who tend to be on a limited budget. Those full-page/inner cover ads in the Yellow Pages are expensive as hell and building brand recognition and loyalty can be hell, especially in re and insurance where there is so much competition and everyone's hot point is price.
Upstart and independent realtors with MLS access are an outstanding target market, as are FSBO listers. There is a lot of competition, but most of the sites I've seen are utter shambles. There's a lot of money to be made here -- just have to get a better handle on the market, because cold calling the big dogs in real estate is what everybody else is doing.
Frank
I've had decent success with realtors and other professional fields targeting the newbies and independents who tend to be on a limited budget. Those full-page/inner cover ads in the Yellow Pages are expensive as hell and building brand recognition and loyalty can be hell, especially in re and insurance where there is so much competition and everyone's hot point is price.
Upstart and independent realtors with MLS access are an outstanding target market, as are FSBO listers. There is a lot of competition, but most of the sites I've seen are utter shambles. There's a lot of money to be made here -- just have to get a better handle on the market, because cold calling the big dogs in real estate is what everybody else is doing.
Frank
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I've come into some really nice rankings. My facebook promotions have been going really well. I am getting people telling me to include their restaurants and to contact them! I made contacts at a local college rag (Non-campus run) and we're probably going to sponsor a bar crawl. How cool is that?!
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Josh
Hey guys new to the forum
I'm thinking about starting something like this, but noticed that sites like Yelp and Citysearch were often near the top of organic search results. Am I gonna be able to out-SEO these sites to get to the top, or am I not being "nichey" enough? I'd think that huge sites like these have a lot of pull and are well-maintained.
Thanks guys
I'm thinking about starting something like this, but noticed that sites like Yelp and Citysearch were often near the top of organic search results. Am I gonna be able to out-SEO these sites to get to the top, or am I not being "nichey" enough? I'd think that huge sites like these have a lot of pull and are well-maintained.
Thanks guys
Does this mean I should be more nichy in terms of location or service?
i.e. Boston MA pizza vs. Brookline MA [a suburb] pizza or Boston pizza vs Boston best pizza delivery service?
But it seems like all the suburbs are dominated by citysearch and yahoo. Ofc pizza's probably too broad, but seems like every niche and longtail is dominated by citysearch out here.
Is my area just too dominated or ought I be back to the drawing board?
Thanks a lot
i.e. Boston MA pizza vs. Brookline MA [a suburb] pizza or Boston pizza vs Boston best pizza delivery service?
But it seems like all the suburbs are dominated by citysearch and yahoo. Ofc pizza's probably too broad, but seems like every niche and longtail is dominated by citysearch out here.
Is my area just too dominated or ought I be back to the drawing board?
Thanks a lot
I've noticed that I've been getting LOTS of searches involving "Best". Best restaurant. Best mexican. Best buffalo wings. Etc. New idea: Have businesses pay for having their ad show for "Best of". "I will only be selling this to one business per type. After that, I will be accepting no other businesses for that "best of" category.
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I can't decide if I should go on a multiple domain route or 1 main domain for a niche.
Plus side of doing a single domain is you can leverage all your links and content which means a lot less work, all I would need is some deep links. On the downside, if I'm selling a big ticket regional keyword, clients may want an top level domain rather than some subdirectory
Upside of multiple domains for 1 niche is you're able to take advantage the domain name helping in rank.
Downside of single domains is if some how the site gets penalized, I could lose all my rankings. I plan to do some sort of greyhat techniques.
Plus side of doing a single domain is you can leverage all your links and content which means a lot less work, all I would need is some deep links. On the downside, if I'm selling a big ticket regional keyword, clients may want an top level domain rather than some subdirectory
Upside of multiple domains for 1 niche is you're able to take advantage the domain name helping in rank.
Downside of single domains is if some how the site gets penalized, I could lose all my rankings. I plan to do some sort of greyhat techniques.
Here's a few ideas.....
Make one site.
If you sell a big ticket regional keyword, and the client wants a toplevel domain, simply purchase a domain name and fwd it to your subdirectory.
As far as being penalized for greyhat techniques, you shouldn't be doing any funny business with your main site anyway. Do your questionable shit on throw away domains on separate c-blocks (hosting accounts) and fwd to your main doimain.
Hi, great posts, and very informative.
I've started a project of my own based on this thread. The problem is, I am having trouble getting ranked. The market is wedding planners for a specific city. It's a pretty specific niche, i thought, however, there are some titans at the top of the rankings. Anyone have any pointers? I'd like to PM a URL to anyone who could lend me any advice.
I've started a project of my own based on this thread. The problem is, I am having trouble getting ranked. The market is wedding planners for a specific city. It's a pretty specific niche, i thought, however, there are some titans at the top of the rankings. Anyone have any pointers? I'd like to PM a URL to anyone who could lend me any advice.
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