Virtual tours on Realtor.com average being viewed 2.3 times per week...not very impressive...Virtual tours on my site (very localized) are viewed around 4 times per day...Do the research...do the math..get good at your work..make the pitch...they will use your services if the price is right..With or without realtor.com!
Realtor.com claims to receive over 2 million visitors per day..I dont doubt that figure, and that is alot of visitors!....but...There are over 850,000 members of the National Realtor Association..Case studies show that on average each realtor has 4 residential listings..Thats a total of 3.4 million listings. Add those 2 figures together and you have a potential of 4.25 million visitors per day...and none of them are there to purchase a home..they are only there to make sure their house is showing up on realtor.com.
Realtor.com means more to the Realtor than it does to the home buyer! According to Overture, the term "homes for sale (insert area name here)" , is actually searched more than the term "realtor.com"..As a general rule, a home buyer will type in "Miami realtor"...or "Dallas realtor" etc....With those search terms, you can compete with Realtor.com in your area if you master the meta tags.
Hope this helps a bit..It has me ;)
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