Have Content But Not No Time?
Making real estate blog content for your real estate website may prove to be difficult. Especially, if you, your team, or brokerage office is out there closing deals and working with prospects to prepare properties for showings and all the other tedious task professional realtors face. So you may be thinking about what solutions are there for you to still have content ready for your website while not sacrificing too much of your valuable time that could be used to grow your business. Here at e-Man Worldwide, we have partnered with the most reliable IDX solutions provider for your website iHomeFinder, to ensure your real estate website will remain rich and full of relevant content to your business.
A blog can dramatically improve the ranking of your site in search engines. Whether you’re new to blogging or short on inspiration, this list of 511 topics to blog about will help you produce post after post! Make sure you read until the end as the last topic is the most important.
Real Estate Blog Content Ideas
- Take an interesting picture of something local to base your blog around. (Make sure to set as featured image)
- Senior housing information
- Pet-friendly housing (They say dogs are a man’s best friend. As of the summer of 2020, it is reported that an estimated 68% percent of households in the U.S own at least 1 pet. This means around 85 million families have furry or non-furry additions to their families that they cherish. If you know a certain property is pet-friendly make sure to let them know!)
- A closing – lessons learned that could be shared with others
- Important information about homeowners insurance
- An article or post directly from a homeowners’ insurance agent
- Gardening and landscaping ideas or issues
- City council information
- A new housing development
- Lofts or work-live space information
- Mortgage news
- Interest rate news or information
- Consumer hoaxes and scams
- First time home buyer programs
- Investment properties
- How to use your mobile website (Encourage Desktop visitors to take your blog with them on the go.)
- Transportation & Parking
- Fair housing issues
- Weekend getaways
- Homeowners associations
- Coffee shops/cafes
- Where to play golf locally
- Crime statistics in your area (Let’s be real everybody wants to live in a safe area. Depending on your niche and type of clients you like to work with stressing any positive detail about local police precincts, safety, and crime rates will help you close deals.)
- Home safety tips
- Environmental issues
- A client who was fun to work with
- Moving with pets
- Moving with children
- Over-priced homes
- Neighbor issues
- Day Care options in your area
- The final walkthrough
- Being an agent for Baby Boomers
- Buying a second home
- Accolades received by your town or schools (This is especially important for families in search of long term residency. Build good rapport with these communities and have a good center of business that will give you referrals for many years to come.)
- Things potential home buyers should know about financing
- Testimonials from clients (Social proof will be great to convince others to do business with you. Utilizing the tools offered here at e-Man Worldwide, testimonials and reviews will be an integral part of your marketing strategy.)
- Local parks (This is especially important for families in search of long term residency. Build good rapport with these communities and have a good center of business that will give you referrals for many years to come.)
- Seasonal activities in your area
- Tips on how to properly tour a property
- Common misconceptions about the home buying/selling process
- Green home buying/remodeling tips and resources
- Top reasons why listing with an agent is better than FSBOÂ (This will be a great opportunity to exhaust your resources and knowledge of real estate that only professional realtors can know.)
- Go through your email: is there a question or comment from one of your clients that can be made into a post?
- Decorating resources such as furniture and design business (If a prospect knows local establishments can provide the home decor they need this can encourage many of them to stay. As opposed to having to drive miles or order online.)
- How to find the right agent (Be careful not to take clients away from your site. Use this as an opportunity to get clients on the phone.)
- Members of your team – introduce them and the value they bring to your team
- The value of staging & staging ideas – show before and after photos!
- Upcoming community events (Networking)
- Being an agent for seniors ( Working with agents within your age range makes you a specialist.)
- Glad you made it to the last and most important rule of things you should have in your blog post. Your listings!
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Fulfilling the task on this list to ensure relevant real estate blog content is on your website is something many agents struggle with in today’s climate of social media and having a strong online presence. If for any reason you find yourself amongst them in that box, don’t feel embarrassed! After all, your a realtor and not a digital marketer. Read more about e-Man’s IDX solutions here:
e-Man Worldwide will design a blog page that will automatically create a post for each of your new listings, including a picture, listing information, and a link to view the property details on your website. Since it’s a blog post that you can edit, you can also add any supplemental information you may want to share. Let e-Man take that extra pressure off you by clicking the link below to schedule your free telephone conference with e-Man today and watch your real estate business grow.
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