mentor ship available for seo help

[Tom Evans]

My name is Tom Evans (how ya doin?). I'm the owner of a small construction company in Mansfield Ohio. The company consists of construction, chimney service, snowplow service, and real estate investing. My son will take over operations of the construction and chimney service part of the business as soon as I acquire 10 properties. We have 8 now and 1 in contract, so it won't be long before i'll only be in snowplowing and real estate. I'm only keeping the plow business for a w-2 income for credit reasons. I'm looking for someone with seo knowledge that is interested in real estate.

My expertise (or from now on is referred to as my lane) is in buy and hold sfh's. My advantage in real estate is we can do 99% of the renovations ourselves. We only buy homes in our area and about 50% of our customers are section 8. Our homes cost between $16,000 and $50,000 depending on renovation costs. In the last couple of years the homes have gone up in value 25 to 40 percent. If this sounds like a lane you want to know more about, keep reading.

Back in the day most of our advertising was done through the phone book ( yes youngsters, we had to go through a book to find a plumber). Now we have to have websites and be present on all forms of social media. I have tried to educate myself with books and podcasts, but it looks like you can't make a race horse out of a plow horse. This is my attempt to find someone that I can exchange knowledge with. If you are this guy or gal, get in contact with me.

In conclusion, I must warn you that I know just enough to be dangerous. I know what should be done, but I don't know how to do it. The seo help is for the snowplowing business. I hope I find mr or mrs right for this task.

thanks in advance,

Tom

[Austin Faux]

Hey @Tom Evans I do SEO for my 9-5 for about 5 years specifically for Real Estate Investors....after I saw all the money I was making them I decided to jump to the other side of the REI coin myself. In short SEO for constant Lead Gen isn't a good method unless you're willing to wait 2-3 years for it to really pull in leads.

In short just make your title tags relevant keyword wise (aka page is about buying houses in Dallas then make title tag "We Buy Houses in Dallas | Business Name"

Make your description tag something with similar keywords as the title tag for the page.  Make it about the size of a 140 character tweet that ends with a CTA (example: Call Now - PHONE NUMBER HERE

Then make a bunch of blogs that answer questions people are typing into your area.  Make about 2-4 a month minimum about 500-800 words each.  Add some pictures, graphs or anything else you can do to make it pop content-wise better than the competition on the Google's Search Engine Results Page (SERPs).

Then take your new content and promote it via Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Stumbleupon, etc.

If you really want to kick it up a notch just make a Youtube video with you talking about all the stuff in your blog.  YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine.

There is some more stuff that prof. SEO folks like myself would do, but everything I just mentioned is completely do-able for you.  Otherwise you're going to pay about $1,000+ /m and get little to no leads coming in.  So unless you have a proven REI business model like my clients you probably shouldn't be paying anyone for SEO at this point....because it's not going to be bringing in a ton of leads.

....sorry to burst your bubble.

AFTER you do this for awhile then the leads can come in big time if you OWN the SERPS.  Organic traffic is the number one lead gen, as well as the best ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) for my clients but it's taken us about 4 years and lots of money