US real estate brokers, personal loan financers and mortagage agents are the ones who approached me more frequently than anyone else during 2007 for SEO projects. Truth be told, I’ve had a hard time declining offers.
You’d laugh at it but, I prefer to decline offers from many of these clients because, over the period of time, I’ve found that out of 5 clients who approach me for SEO work around keywords like real estate agents USA, Personal loan fianancers etc are not genuine. More than me, what they’d require is a black hat SEO.
Initially, I used to pick up clients from these industries, I’ve done a couple of projects with an Arizona real estate agent (that’s what he told he is), but later decided that rather than working on the full project (design,content,off site etc), I do consultation for him because of the following reasons. He needs to..
- Get things done overnight.
- Please do whatever you can, all I have is copied content from other sites.
- I have no content myself, neither do I plan to write any.
- I can’t wait for four months, that’s my break even point.
Honestly, if you client demands something along the lines of the above statements, I’d better recommend him a black hat SEO.
Many of these clients can’t wait for three months or above for they think that’s too long. Most of them need immediate results, which is close to impossible.
But honestly, the keywords are rich, and the pay from these clients are awesome! And it is very much possible to get a decent, solid, authoritive rank for these keywords if they can stretch a little bit, is ready to build a standards compliant website and have some patience. But unfortunately, apart from one or two that I’ve worked with, most of the others need overnight results. So basically they expect magic from SEOs. Balck Hat SEO’s, do you smell some fresh grass here?
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A possible limitation of this approach is that you have to be aware of MLS rules about advertising other peoples’ listings if you use this formula, so you may want to talk it over with your broker first. On the other hand, most listing agents would undoubtedly give you permission if you call them.
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way to go buddy…if it is not doable in the expected timeframe…it is good to be honest and decline…
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Heh, you need to be me for a while – I reject legit. clients because i dont have time
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If they want and expect overnight result they need to be looking at ppc management and not seo services but some people expect miracles, I am sure they wanted it to be done at a cheap price also.
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Am glad you got it just right.
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