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Absolutely! it brings us in about 8 - 10 referrals a year from other agents and what it does for our web traffic for natural search results is nothing short of amazing. A lot of times for long tail searches we will be on page 1 of G 3 to 5 times, 1) our main website 2) our AR inside blog 3) our AR out side blog 4) our AR team Blog 5) our WP blog. This drives great targeted traffic to our site.
There are a lot of great tips and techniques that make this possible for us, not to mention a ton of networking and high quality blogging to get these results. I do talk with people who are not happy with AR and after seeing what they do in there I know why they don't succeed. Everything take quality, consistency and work. If you are willing to invest these things than you will reap the rewards and to me it beats the pants off of cold calling or door knocking and I have done them both.
if you have any questions on how to use these just hit me up any time and I am always happy to assist, I even think there is a thread about it in ere and AR gives great training as well. If you do jump in find our blog and lets network in there as well.
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