Being in the market for a new home means that I spend lots of time searching for the right property, so it’s really frustrating when I constantly discover that very few real estate agents understand the dynamics of internet marketing, or what it has to offer.

I don’t have time to walk the pavement to search the window of real estate agents locally, so the first thing I do is head to Google, as do most other real estate hunters. What I find is not so good!!! Of course there are the major sites such as Domain and Realestate.com.au, but often I want to dig deeper on the sites of individual real estates. The problem is, I can’t find most of them!

When I CAN find a real estate agent with good search engine rankings, their website is often poor and not updated and the photos they put on site are horrid if they are there at all.

I get the feeling that most agents are possibly listing a few of their available properties on the “big” real estate websites and hoping people will find them, BOY WHAT A MISTAKE!!!

It should be the aim of EVERY real estate to rank first on google for all the possible property terms within their local area. Getting on that first page of google before the big sites is a huge advantage, and being sure your website contains great detail and amazing photos is the next step to getting the potential buyer/renter to make that call and give you their money.

This frustration has given me the inspiration to write an easy step guide to internet marketing for real estate agents, I’ll be posting the first part soon!

In current years it has been discovered that a majority of people use Google or other search engines as their first stop for research on products and services they are looking to buy.

This being the case, it makes sense that all business owners should have their website ranking as high as possible in order to get as much exposure to new customers as possible.

The secret to SEO is that most people don’t click past the first 2 pages of search engine results. This means that there are 20 top positions available, with the first 10 being the most highly prizes first page ranking positions.

Search engine optimisation is a long term process, the first steps to get started are:

1. It’s really important to know what words your customers are using to try and find your product. These words are referred to as keywords. These keywords make up the basis for your seo campaign. Keyword research is one of the most vital steps in SEO as the wrong keywords will return very little result or ROI.

2. Benchmarking: Know where your website is ranking right now. It’s important to understand where your website sits in relation to competition for your chosen keywords. This benchmark will be mark against which any ranking improvements will be measured.

Once those 2 steps are complete, it’s time to move on to the action taking and results!… more on this soon.

Our local area is Port Macquarie in NSW, and while the internet allows us to service companies and people all over the world, if you prefer in person consultations and meetings then we are happy to travel, we understand the online marketing needs of small business and are here to help.

Welcome to Bright Biz. My name is Loreena Walsh, owner of Bright Biz an Online Marketing Consultancy focused on helping Small Business owners utilise the online environment and other technologies to take their business to a new level.

We are based in Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia but work with clients worldwide to assist them with their small business marketing.

Getting online used to cost from $2000 to $30000 for a business website. The truth about many websites is that they simply DO NOT WORK!! A business website, especially for small business needs to be targeted, focused, and convert website visitors into customers. Something that many websites do not achieve.

So how can this Port Macquarie Website & Marketing Consultancy help you?

• If you don’t feel in control of your website - Call us
• If your website is costing you money for little return - Call us
• If your website ISN”T bringing you targeted customers that you can track - you need our help.
• If you are confused about how to get online - We’ll help you today.
• If you need ways to link your online and offline marketing - We can solve your marketing problems too.
• If your website is nowhere to be seen within Google or other search engine search results - we’ll fix that for you FAST!!

In short, our business is about helping your business. Small business is my passion. Technology is my passion and I sincerely hope that more small business takes the initiative to take control of the online medium that’s been controlled by big business for too long.

Contact Loreena today for a chat about how getting online could help your business. No obligation and a no sell introductory chat about your business is on offer, no pressure just a few ideas between business owners.

Hope to talk to you soon.