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As I am adding to my knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO), in particular with regards to real estate, I'm curious to know what some of the popular keyword phrases are. If you bought or sold a previous home using the internet, what words did you type into Google (or other search engine) before you bought or sold that home?
Below I'm using made-up place names, which would be substituted by real place names like Santa Monica, Long Beach, Culver City etc.
So if looking to buy a home, did you type in something like:
green river homes
houses for sale in biddleton
edgebury real estate
san pacino valley single family homes
etc. And if selling a home, things like:
anytown realty
mountain village realtor
selling home in Desert City
where to sell home in Aston Park
I'm looking in particular for the real estate words you surrounded the place names with. It might answer questions like is "homes" more preferred than "real estate."
If you can remember the *exact words* that ultimately led you to finding who to sell/buy your property, that would be very useful to myself, and many others who are going to read this thread in the future.
I'm sure there are online tools that might be able to assist here (can anybody suggest any) but this is just a rough poll of people who have used search engines to buy and sell homes.
Thanks!
Last edited by Fenugreek; 08-09-2011 at 11:51 PM..
You can limit the search by home size, price, sq ftge, bed, ba, and about 20 other factors.
At the moment, there aren't enough homes for sale in any LA or OC county city to justify the type of search criteria you are talking about.
For instance, when I search Burbank(a desireable area of LA), with the parameters 1500 min sq ft, 3 min bed, 2 min ba, $500-600K, I only come back with 15 results.
So theres no real need to limit parameters further. If I'm a homebuyer, I'm clickin on every single one of those 15 homes.
Zillow and Trulia might be better, not sure. Redfin has worked well for me.
That's not the way I searched for homes. I started at redfin.com and zillow.com and entered town of interest and a price range.
It might be area-dependent though because where I live (new england) there aren't many subdivisions that have names. In other parts of the country I can see how someone might enter the name of a subdivision and look for a home there. In that case, I would have used the word "homes" after the subdivision name in a google search. To my mind, the term "real estate" is a broader term that encompasses land for sale, commercial sales, rentals, etc. "Homes" is more specific to residential sales.
I use local websites to my market. They are much better than the big ones. Then I search by neighborhood....example "Lakeside Village" or school district..... and price range about 20% above and below my pricing limits. For my personal residences, I always look for anything with water or golf course views, so sometimes I will do an all-location search with my pricing limits but just select views at real estate websites.
Sometimes I do use search engines and also type in neighborhood names "Lakeside Village, Irving" to see what crops up.
Once I find a property of interest I often go to the appraisal district website to see what I can learn about its ownership history and pull up the whole block to see comparable tax values of other properties in the neighborhood, too.
Same as the others. I just used various realstate sites (realtor.com/zillow/etc.). It seems it would be highly ineffiecient to just start googling what you want instead of using a website already set up.
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