How To get Inside Your Potential Real Estate Client’s Mind On The Internet

by Peter Kolat on July 28, 2009

  

Today I want to talk to you real estate investors about Google and how you can use it to find that house seller that will come to your site and actually want you to sign a contract with them.  I’m talking about prospects that actually want you to do a deal with them, and buy their house.

What I am going to share with you today is easy.  It requires some imagination and creativity on your part, but it can be done; I use this technique all the time..

I first learned this little tip from a guy named Frank Kern.  He is one of the brightest people on the internet and he knows exactly what is going on when it comes to internet marketing.  When people go to Google, they do so with the intention of accomplishing a particular task.

The Search Mentality

They type in google.com  and receive this little search window that asks them what they want to search for. Some people go there just to waste time; some people go there to just browse around; some people go to do research; some go there to find some kind of a free topic on blogs or forums or whatever the case may be; some people actually go there to find specific solutions for their problems—it’s all about the mindset that they have.

Now, do you want someone to come to your website who is just browsing around, or do you want someone to come to your website that is actually looking for the solution to their problem — you can be the one to help them get that solution and that problem solved. 

Lets look at an example:
When somebody types in Google the term: “house selling,” what is their mindset?

They can be looking for information about house selling, or some articles on house selling for different locations anywhere in the United States, or they can be looking for anything related to houses and selling. 

The bottom line is that it’s a very broad topic. 

People Searching for Specific Answers Search Targeted Terms

However, if somebody goes to Google and types in “how to sell a house fast in Dallas,”  that’s a different story.

Think about that particular phrase for a second.  The people using that search phrase are actually looking for a solution on how to sell their house fast in Dallas, Texas.  While those search terms aren’t going to give you thousands of searches a month, they are very targeted.  These terms, with 3 words or more are called long tail keyword phrases.

Utilizing Long Tail Phrases in Your Real Estate Websites

This particular phrase is a very specific and the person who is searching for it is probably looking for answers to their very particular solution.  If you can write an article on your website, “how to sell a house fast in Dallas, Texas” and put that keyword phrase in your title, you might end up on the first page of Google for that particular keyword phrase.  Obviously, there is more to SEO than this but starting there should at least get you off on the right foot.

Capture and Connect with Your Leads

If somebody ends up on your site from that keyword phrase, you can then provide them with a squeeze page to sign up to your list.  You can then start talking  to that particular person over the email and sooner or later get them on the phone.  Before you know it, you may even sign a contract with them because they were looking for a way to sell their house fast.

So, as you can see, the particular mindset of someone searching on Google is very important when you are marketing on the internet.  In fact, if you are doing offline marketing or any kind of direct marketing, that same mindset still applies.  With anything that you do in marketing, you have to look at the mindset of a person that is going to be reading your AD on the internet, in the newspapers or wherever else you are marketing.

Let me know in the comments below what you think.

To Your Success,

Peter Kolat

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1 Joe July 28, 2009 at 7:50 pm

Peter,

Number of Google searches for “How to sell my house fast.” Ahh… none. “Not Enough Data”
Number of Google searches for “How to sell my house fast in Dallas.” Mmmm… none. “Not Enough Data”

If you try to improve your Google ranking with these keyword phrases, you will be a very frustrated SEO newbie.

Also, there is another “leg” to the keyword research biped. But more on that later, if it comes up.

Good luck. I look forward to seeing this unfold.

Joe

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2 Peter Kolat July 29, 2009 at 7:06 am

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this subject Joe.

What I was trying to illustrate here is the power of using long tail keywords. While using long tail keywords can be extremely powerful, if one does not do proper keyword research, it will be extremely hard for them to get traffic to their site.

My example above, for illustration purposes, is an extreme one. Anyone using this technique will need to do keyword research to find out how much traffic is for that particular keyword.

Keyword research is extremely important when doing SEO and one of the fundamental steps. I didn’t go into it here because the article would be extremely long.

Thanks again Joe. Maybe I’ll write on that next week :)

Peter
.-= Peter Kolat´s last blog ..How To Take Advantage of Google To Find More RealEstate Leads =-.

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3 SW July 29, 2009 at 7:32 am

Peter…You have just shared an inspiring ideas. We have proven the powerful help of internet to deal with real estate market, especially those who concern with staging works.

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4 Wb July 29, 2009 at 8:31 am

“Some people go there just to waste time; some people go there to just browse around; some people go to do research; some go there to find some kind of a free topic on blogs or forums or whatever the case may be; some people actually go there to find specific solutions for their problems—it’s all about the mindset that they have.”

very true you have to really put yourself in the consumers shoes regardless of what your doing!, Thanks for sharing.

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5 Peter Kolat July 29, 2009 at 11:49 am

No problem guys. Anytime. Remember, when it comes to your customers, it’s all about their mindset and “What’s in it for them.”

To Your Success,

Peter Kolat
.-= Peter Kolat´s last blog ..How To Take Advantage of Google To Find More RealEstate Leads =-.

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6 Property Guru August 2, 2009 at 5:55 am

Good article Peter,
It highlights the fact that by focussing on narrow niches even a small player can complete. Using long tail keywords can really benefit small businesses to get traffic to their sites and convert them into a client.
BTW- what is “biped”
.-= Property Guru´s last blog ..New Video coming up =-.

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7 Joe August 2, 2009 at 6:11 pm

Hey, it looks weird to me too… Maybe it should be bi-ped, but Google keeps wanting me to spell it without the hyphen. Oh well.

biped – 2 legged animal.

Joe

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8 Joseph August 3, 2009 at 2:02 pm

These are great tips if you are looking for real estate leads online. In fact, narrowing down your keywords to local and regional areas can be really effective and surprisingly easy.

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