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Monday, December 22, 2014

Real Estate Marketing: SEO vs. SEM

Shelter, food, and clothing are among the basic needs of people. While food manufacturers and clothing companies sell products by the thousands, though, real estate companies often find it hard to hit their sales target. If real estate companies utilize the right approach to marketing, they can achieve, and maybe even exceed, their sales goals. So what’s the most effective way to promote properties?

The approach that’s most likely to get results is online marketing. It has several elements that could complement each other to bring optimum results. For instance, launching a search engine optimization (SEO) campaign will work best if done alongside a search engine marketing (SEM) campaign. Unfortunately, quite a few companies know the differences between the two, even using them interchangeably at times.

SEO involves strategies to boost the ranking of a webpage in search engines like Google and Yahoo! If a potential buyer wants to look for a contemporary home, he/she inputs the term in the search bar and results relating to the search term are displayed. With SEO, a real estate company’s chances of being included in the results are greater.

SEM, meanwhile, involves strategies that enable marketing techniques, such as pay-per-click advertising or PPC, to zero-in on the target market. If the buyer searches for homes using the same search term, the results will also display an ad from a related industry, like a real estate company.

Making SEO and SEM work is a challenge. Luckily, full-service online marketing firms can help realtors.


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