Curious if anyone has had any luck on the first page of Google for their "State" Real Estate. I think this is obviously one of the most common search phrases and probably one of the hardest to rank for. I'm sure it would be pretty difficult to rank, but if one accomplished that, I was thinking any areas you don't service you could refer out and still make a decent amount of money on referrals.

__________________
MARK Z. Real Estate Team

Coldwell Banker Real Estate
Northville, MI 48168
(248) 937-1337
Northville MI Real Estate
Michigan Divorce Attorney
Metro Detroit Real Estate Blog

Servicing the entire Metropolitan Detroit Real Estate market. If you know of anyone looking to relocate to Michigan, call me with their name and number. I am willing to pay you up to a 30% referral fee.

To be honest, I haven't even tried for that phrase yet. I'll have to take a look and see who is ranking for it in our area.

__________________
Scottsdale Real Estate
McDowell Mountain Ranch Real Estate
DC Ranch Real Estate

Keep in mind that the big firms PAY BIG for top billing on Web Searches.

__________________
Larry Jensen, Principal Broker
St. Lawrence Properties, llc
www.StLawrenceProperties.net

What's My Mileage?

I don't think it would be harder than ranking well for a large metro area. Unless you were looking to do a lot of referral business (or maybe in a very small state) I am not sure how helpful it would be and unless you listings for everywhere in your state you may not get a lot of visitors to stick around.

__________________
Carolyn Gjerde-Tu

Davis CA Real Estate
Granite Bay Real Estate Sacramento Real Estate

We were ranking well for awhile (not page 1 but within 2 pages), then for some reason dropped back pretty far.

We have aimed for that KW campaign for the end to middle of this year, so we'll see what happens as the campaign progresses. *crosses fingers*

I'm not sure how much local business would actually come from it, but I would love to have the traffic and any referrals out of it.

__________________
Jessie: Panama City Beach Real Estate, Panama City Real Estate and Panama City Beach Condos

We honestly don't ever target it - not because it is more competitive (It isn't really) but because the quality of the traffic (Potential for closings for our customers) is much lower - they could be looking anywhere - and it makes much more sense from a business perspective to generate traffic that will turn into deals 100% commission vs referrals 25% commission (And who knows if that person you refer to is honest, or has the same skill at closing you do)

__________________
Want to save up to 50% off Real estate webmasters product websites & common upgrades? Check out my latest blog post regarding our end of the year sale.

No luck here, but I do rank for buy Georgia homes.

__________________
Dwell Atlanta
iPhone 404.895.9618

I live and breathe Atlanta Real Estate with a specilization in Buckhead Real Estate
and Atlanta Condos. Your referrals will be treated with the utmost care and consideration and are always greatly appreciated.

When I first set-up our site I targeted "state" real estate pretty aggressively. We rank anywhere from 2-5 depending on the day and DC. I particularly love it when we rank better than Weichert's national site and Realtor.com!! Anyhow, like Morgan said, "state" real estate is more of an ego thing than anything else because it generally is not people searching for YOUR area.

Matt

__________________
Gatlinburg TN Real Estate | Pigeon Forge Real Estate | Sevierville TN Real Estate

There are tons of searches for "[state] real estate", though, and the users behind those queries are probably looking to spend their money in some way.

Who might these people be?
Mightn't there be a lot of investors in this group, looking for a site with well-organized state-wide listings, from a variety of feeds? Is it only the big brokerages who have these? Does anybody out there become a member of every board in the state, so they can offer state-wide listings?

We are members of 3 boards that cover about a 100 mile radius. We do have statewide foreclosures on the site though. The conversion for this search kinda sucks, but the ones that have contacted us are the investors.

Matt

__________________
Gatlinburg TN Real Estate | Pigeon Forge Real Estate | Sevierville TN Real Estate