When you list a home, are you maximizing finding a buyer by exposing your listings on all the top 10 consumer visited websites? Sellers, and their agents need to expose their homes on all top 10 websites visited by consumers
The following date is taken from Hitwise website 3-3-2012
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| 9. | 1.00% |
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This screen shot shows Hitwise's data on the top 10 visited U S Websites and the top 10 visited Real estate sites in the week ending 2/25/2012. Hitwise provides respected digital marketing intelligence for the online business community. This information means that you as a Seller or you as a Real Estate Agent representing a Seller of a home need ot assure that your home appears in the top 10 in both categories.
Here is a list of tough questions you should ask yourself, or your real estate agent:
1. Since homes are Real Estate, can you easily find yours on Zillow, the top visited real estate site? This recent survey shows it has now become #1 visited site, over taking Realtor.com. How does your listing appear there? Are there multiple pictures (more than 10)? Are the pictures clear and bright? Would you want to buy your home as shown there?
Baton Rouge Area Homes strives to stay on top of keeping your listings easy to find on Zillow.
2..Can you find your home in the other nine real estate sites, Realtor.com, Trulia.com, Yahoo!RealEstate, Homes.com, AOL Real Estate, Rent.com, MSN Real Estate, Apartment Guide, and Zip Realty? Some may not be appropriate on every site as homes for sale would not appear on Rent.com and vice versa. How about picture clarity? How many pictures? After viewing, would you want to buy your home unseen from its web presence?
Baton Rouge Area Homes places your home in ALL of the other top 10 sites as appropriate.
3. If a Realtor has a website, is it being found by search engines in the Top 10 Visited U S Websites? on google and yahoo and bing and msn....the top search engines? When does your property have a presence on Facebook and YouTube?
Baton Rouge Area Homes is at the top of 3 of the 4 major search engines!
While writing this post we did a search of to see how our website BatonRougeAreaHomes.com appeared in those critical top 10 visited websites. As you know placement can vary each time you do a search. We appeared in the search engines in the unpaid, #1 spot on first page of Bing and the#2 spot on the first page of Yahoo and MSN when someone looks for "Baton Rouge Homes". We are found ahead of the Top 10 visited Real Estate sites in Bing and ahead of all except Homes.com in Yahoo! We are usually on second page of Google, but are working to fix that. Occasionally we make it to page 1 of Google. For those of you who are visual, at the end of this blog is a copy of how we appear in the non-paid links on Yahoo and Bing and MSN today. We would be honored to serve your relocating clients into East or West Baton Rouge or the surrounding areas of Baker, Central, Denham Springs, Gonzales, Livingston, Prairieville, Walker, Watson, Zachary, or the Felicianas (St.Francisville).
search results for Baton Rouge Homes.com on the bing search enging:
Homes.com Baton Rouge, LA Real Estate: Search houses for sale and MLS listings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Local information: 1,110 homes for sale, 22 condos, 491 ...
Find Homes For Sale In the Louisiana parishes of East & West Baton Rouge, Ascension, Livingston, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, and East & West Feliciana
Search Results for Baton Rouge Homes on the MSN Search Engine
Homes.com Baton Rouge, LA Real Estate: Search houses for sale and MLS listings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Local information: 1,110 homes for sale, 22 condos, …
Baton Rouge Homes is the most comprehensive web site available Baton Rouge homes and neighborhoods in the Baton Rouge Louisiana and the surrounding …
Find Homes For Sale In the Louisiana parishes of East & West Baton Rouge, Ascension, Livingston, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, and East & West Feliciana
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Mardi Gras parades kick off this weekend with the 2012 CAAWS Mystic Krewe of Mutts Parade.
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t's a family friendly parade with a good cause,.The entry fee of $25 for one person for one dog helps raise money for the Capital Area Aminal Welfare Society. This is a walking parade where dogs and their owners stroll along downtown Baton Rouge Louisiana streets in their finest Mardi Gras costumes. Each year has a special theme. The 2012 is a western theme "The Good, The Bad, and The Furry"
Imagine all the excitement of children seeing hundreds of dogs parade in front of them with owners throwing all kinds of toys and treets for them to chatch. And there are many colors and styles of costumes. The only limit is your imagination! Short dogs, tall dogs, excited dogs, calm dogs, pedigree dogs, mixed breeds, you will find just about evey kind here.
Today's parade begins at 10am and is over at 4pm. Ther will be music and bands and excited faces lining the parade route. I guess you just have to be there to catch a little of the excitement, so here is a video o f part of last year's parade:
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There's still 2 days left as Hot Air Balloons Rise Over Baton Rouge Louisiana in the Annual Pennington Balloon Championships! You don't want to miss them this year!
THOSE MAGNIFICANT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES!! That title from a famous slapstick movie reminds me to what links man goes to conquer space and the skies. One of my favorite parts of the balloon festival is the guest appearance of the Airborne Parachute Demonstration Team. Have you ever wondered how they do it? Parachute out from helpcopters and planes so high up we can't even see them on the ground and then they land on a little target a foot wide on the field? Well its' high tech, folks. My son served in infantry airboren in the Army and it's amazing what they do. They make it look so easy. Here is a video clip of what it's like up there as a team lands inside a football stadium:
And the festival is for all ages. My grandsons love the Children's Village each year:
There are lots of inflatables. Also there are farm animals for the children to see and pet. And lots of games that vary each year like water balloons. Between balloon flights the kids don't have to just stand around waiting!
And the highlight about 9:30pm is the Fireworks display. So come join the fun at the Annual Pennington Balloon Championship 2011
And if you are looking for a Baton Rouge Home, we'd be honored to assist you.
The U.S. Women's team has excited groups around the United States with the sport of soccer. You may want to check out local opportunities to give your children and grandchildren the opportunity to try out the sport of soccer. But they are too young, they are just toddlers! That's just the right time to expose them to different opportunities!
Now is the time to get involved and find a fall or winter league and let the fun begin! Baton Rouge Soccer Association has lots of programs including a fun Christmas camp.
Looking to relocate to Baton Rouge Louisiana? Or would you like to find a Baton Rouge home?
Try BREC tennis activites in Baton Rouge, LA, for kids on Easter Break
Are you 2 days into Easter break and your children are bored already? Try finishing the last 3 days at Highland Road tennis center. Worried that preschoolers are too young? No worry. They specialize in young students who have never picked up a racquet before.
And if you're students are more experienced, there are more challenging competitions too. BREC has lessons at HIghlnad Road and City Park. And the YMCA at Paula G. Manship has programs there as well..
So go tomorrow and finish the week with fun, healty excercise!
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