An option you might want to consider is utilizing video in an intelligent way to market yourself, your city, neighborhoods and properties. It's now quite easy to embed a simple paragraph of HTML text that is provided to you after video upload to any public video site. You simply paste that code into you website editor and you have a video and flash player live on your site in minutes.

Video is also now searchable within Google and maintains a higher page ranking than text pages. Perhaps it's the relatively new nature of video search parameters or the fact that surrounding text on the video page within public video sites such as YouTube count as keyword content. regardless, video can be the quickest way to a high page rank with greater comprehension levels on the part of the viewer.

Not only does video lend itself to effectively telling a realtor's story and connecting with the viewer on an emotional level and creating a personal relationship, but a viral campaign (Which requires no financial investment) can be a quick and effective way to thousands of views and new visitors to your site.

Make sure you have your contact information somewhere in your video and keep it short (3 mins.). Video client testimonials are particularly effective as viewers can see and hear their enthusiasm for your service. Agent profile videos are becoming popular, even city and neighborhood profiles work well. Viewers look for video content now as YouTube changed everything last year.

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