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New Facebook App From ListingDomains.com!

Now you can easily post your listings to your Profile on Facebook!

  • Automatically Updates: Whenever you add, remove or update a listing, your Facebook app will automatically update as well.
  • Publish to your Wall: Publish your new listings to your wall with a click of the mouse. Your Facebook Friends can publish your listings to their wall as well!
  • Links to your Website: Each listing will automatically link back to your Listing Domain or Agent Website for more information about the listing.

This is a FREE App for Listing Domains and Real Estate Sites users!

Benefits of Built-In Social Networking Tools

One of the most useful features of individual listing websites is the ability to quickly and easily add listings to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

Social networking is a new and exciting form of online marketing. It utilizes viral methods of marketing to create a natural buzz around a property. Essentially, social media marketing is a lot like old-fashioned word-of-mouth marketing, but it is done on a much larger scale thanks to the wide reach of the Internet.

For example, if an agent has been active on Facebook and has a couple hundred friends there, they can post each single property website to their Facebook profile to let people know about it. A percentage of these people will like what they see and spread the word, either in person to their friends and family, or online, on their own social networks.

Posting single property sites to Facebook is especially easy for Listing Domains clients, since it can be done automatically via a Facebook app that allows agents to add all of their listings to their profile page. Once they add the listings through the app, their Facebook profile will dynamically update as they add, edit or remove properties from their Listing Domains account.

New Online Classified Flyers

Great news! We just released our new flyer builder that will allow you to post your listings (in style) on craigslist.org!

The new and improved flyer builder allows you to:

  • Choose your photos
  • Choose your layout
  • Choose your color scheme
  • Choose a graphic header
  • Track your results — see how many times the flyer was viewed and clicked!
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You can use the html code that is generated to also post your flyer on your blog or anywhere that allows html posting. The craigslist flyers are just the tip of the iceberg! Be on the look out for our new Agent Announce service that will send these flyers to agents in your area alerting them of new listings, price updates, or status changes. You will be able to send out 1,000 e-flyers using our database of agents for as low as $10.00. In addition to agent announce, we are improving our professionally printed products as well. Soon, in addition to our line of Just Listed, and Just Sold postcards, you will be able to order beautifully designed flyers to match your website and brand identity.

Our new craigslist flyer builder program is available FREE of charge to all Listing Domains users –  And coming soon for Real Estate Site users.

Creating an agent website is an important step in the right direction when it comes to real estate marketing. But creating a real estate website is not enough: you want people to actually find your website when they search for an agent or for listings.

This is where search engine optimization becomes important. There are many things you can do to help major search engines such as Google index your site correctly, and we help you with them. One of the things you need to do is submit your website to all the major search engines. We do that for you – one less thing to worry about!

We also include a link exchange opportunity in our agent sites. When you get legitimate links from other websites that point at your site, you increase your site’s authority and therefor its visibility in the search engines.

When it comes to on-page optimization, or in other words the way you optimize your own site to include important keywords, our real estate sites enable you to modify your meta tags to include your surrounding areas and your areas of expertise.

We also provide tutorials on pay per click marketing using tools such as Google Adwords, on blogs (blogging is a great way to add relevant, optimized content to your agent site!), and other ways to help drive traffic to your real estate site .

If you’re not participating in social media yet, you should. It’s where everyone is – including your potential clients and other real estate professionals. Needless to say, you should be part of social media too!

Social media works very well for real estate marketing, because it’s natural. You join a social network such as, say, Twitter, and you start posting useful information and following relevant people.

In just a few months, you can build yourself an impressive network of online friends, who are very loyal to you, because they have come to see you as a good source of relevant, reliable real estate information.

But where is the connection between social networking and your ListingDomains single property website? Simple. Each of our property websites comes with a built-in posting tool that enables you to quickly and effortlessly add your website to your favorite social network.

So, for example, if you’ve been active on Facebook and have a couple hundred friends there, you can post each single property website to your Facebook profile to let people know about it. Now they can spread the word around about your new listing.

But it gets even better – our social networking tool allows your website visitors to also add your website to their own social networks, spreading the word even further. The potential is unlimited, and you can reach a far larger market than you have ever anticipated.

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Social media is a powerful real estate marketing tool. Unlike traditional real estate marketing, where you basically “dump” information on people hoping to entice them, social media marketing is all about having a two-way conversation with people, building long-term relationships and cultivating trust. The result: when it’s time for people to use a real estate agent, they are more likely to pick you as their agent.

When you market your real estate listings, you should be marketing them in the places where your target market is. It’s important to realize that people today spend far more time on social networks than they do perusing the local paper’s listings.

We are real estate professionals too, and since we recognize the importance of social media marketing for real estate professionals, we have made it very easy for you to share your agent website and your listings in social media.

Each of our real estate websites comes with a built-in posting tool that enables you to easily add your website to your favorite social network, whether it’s Twitter, Facebook or any other social network you prefer to use.

Better yet, your website visitors can easily add your website to their social networks as well. This is how social media is supposed to work – and this is how you effortlessly create a viral marketing campaign.

Visit our website today to create your own agent website.

Twitter for Beginners

If Ben Stiller can do it – SO CAN YOU! I think some of us can relate to Ben’s take on social networking and trying to figure it all out.

Google Maps and Real Estate

What do you think of the way Google presents it’s real estate search?

How do you think this compares with Zillow or Trulia?

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Single property websites are a wonderful listing tool that more and more real estate agents and brokers are using. They have very good reasons for doing so: creating a single-property website for each of your listings can help you drive significantly more traffic than using traditional tools.

Traditional vs. Modern Real Estate Marketing Tools

ListingDomains websites drive more traffic to your listings than traditional marketing tools such as virtual tours and online classified flyers, because those rely completely on other websites for generating traffic.

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When you use traditional methods, you don’t get the benefits of word of mouth advertising, and you don’t get sign rider or search engine traffic.

Creating a property address domain name, coupled with the custom sign rider, is a far better real-estate marketing strategy, which can make a huge difference in the amount of traffic each listing receives.

SEO Benefits

There are significant SEO benefits to creating a single property website. First of all, having the address as the domain name means it will likely be listed very high in search engine page results. So, when someone enters “555 Main Street, Santa Rosa” in the Google search box, your 555MainStreet.com website will likely be the first result listed.

In addition, all of your single property websites link to each other and back to your own website. This can help each property website gain authority and page rank and become more visible in search engine page results. This can also enhance your own website’s search engine rankings, since there are many websites linking to it.

Social Media Benefits

You don’t just get SEO benefits when creating single property websites. You also get social networking exposure. Each single property website includes a built-in posting tool that enables you, or visitors to your website, to quickly post the listing to popular social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. Another convenient tool allows you to post the listing to the incredibly popular Craigslist.

Syndication

When you create a single property website using listingdomains.com, we syndicate your listings to all the major real estate portals, including Trulia, Vast, Google Base, Zillow, Oodle, and Yahoo Real Estate. This can help drive even more traffic to your website, and insure that your listings are advertised to a world-wide audience.

Our software is easy to use and user friendly. Creating a website usually takes less than five minutes! Visit ListingDomains today to start creating your own single property websites and increase traffic to your listings.

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1. Sellers Love it
This simple but effective marketing tool will put you head and shoulders above your competition when it comes to securing the listing. Sellers love having a website dedicated entirely to selling their home. With the DEMO website feature, you can build a website absolutely FREE to show prospects at your listing presentations. Impress them and get the listing!

2. Buyers Use it
Property websites drive more traffic to your listing than virtual tours or online classified ads. Online classified flyers and virtual tours rely solely on other websites to drive traffic. They are unable to capitalize on word of mouth traffic, sign rider traffic or search engine traffic. The property address Domain Name coupled with the custom Domain Rider sign make all the difference! Not to mention the SEO benefits your agent website will receive by having all the back links from your property websites.

3. ALL INCLUSIVE!  (No Monthly Fees)
Each website comes complete with all the tools you need to market your listing online. The one time fee includes hosting for an entire year, a top level domain name (555MainStreet.com), listing syndication to all the major property portals, a printable flyer and a custom sign rider. If you don’t need a sign rider, you will receive a discount at checkout!

4. Built-In Social Networking Tools
Each website includes a built-in posting tool so you can easily add your website to your favorite social network. Better yet, your website visitors can easily add your website to their social networks as well. It’s viral marketing at it’s best!

5. Easy Posting to Craigslist
Your property website includes an html snippet of your website so you can easily cut and paste your data into an online classified site such as craigslist.org, Backpage or Ebay. Craigslist is proven to drive more traffic to your Listing Website so make sure to take advantage of this FREE service!

6. Free Listing Syndication
Service includes automatic feed of your website to the major search engines and property website portals. These portals include GoogleBase, Trulia, Zillow, and more! We add your meta tags for you to get your website the most traffic in the least amount of time.

7. Instant Leads with TEXT messaging
Your website leads are sent immediately to your text enabled cell phone. If someone fills out a form on your website, our program will convert their message to text and transmit it to your cell phone so you can follow up while your prospect is still viewing your website!

8. Property Feedback System
Send a feedback request form to agents and open house visitors soliciting their feedback about the property. This is a great tool to help you negotiate needed changes with your sellers.

9. Website Statistics
Your website statistics will tell you how many unique visitors you have had and tell you the top 5 referring search engines. What’s more, you can view your daily activity, monthly activity and total visitors. Our reporting function will allow you to email a detailed report to your sellers to show them how popular their home is!

10. User Friendly
Create a website in less than 5 minutes! Change your design layout, color and other configuration options anytime. Our program will automatically determine if the domain name of your choice is available and register it. Websites are usually up and running within a few minutes!

For a complete list of website features please visit www.ListingDomains.com