Today, NC Realtors Who Blog will be reviewing the blog of David Recker from Rocky Mount, NC. David publishes the Rocky Mount Real Estate Blog.

From Davids “About Statement”:
I am an experienced real estate professional that provides expert services to people who are buying and/or selling residential properties. I work hard to exceed the expectations of my clients and enjoy many referrals. Sellers - Contact me to learn how my strategic marketing plan and my expertise will successfully price, market and sell your home in a way that is convenient, simple and affordable to you! Buyers - Beat other homebuyers to the hottest new homes for sale…my clients are first to know when a new listing comes on the market that matches their criteria.

From all indications on his blog it appears that David started blogging in January 2009 and what I like is the fact that I see a blogging consistency since David began. It’s very important for a Realtor to blog on a regular basis. You never know who’s reading and who’s a fan. That one client may be reading and one day pick up the phone. It’s obvious to me that David understands the importance of regular fresh content.

One of David’s articles hit home with me. Home Fads that are falling out of style. This article mirrored my own personal feelings, so I immediately connected with David’s style. It’s very important for Realtors Who Blog to connect with their readers.

Since this is a review meant to be helpful, I felt that David could have tweaked the title of one of his posts a little. I almost skipped it due to it’s title.

8 No-Cost and Low-Cost Ways to Tweak Your Listings.

It felt like an article meant for Realtors when in fact it is a helpful homeowner tips sheet about low cost ways to help get your home sold.

David works for Remax and he has the standard links in the sidebar that will take you to his corporate site for listings, CMA’s and Featured homes.

David also writes for Ecanned.com. I found this link by visiting his profile page.

David’s articles are very helpful to prospective clients. I found his articles well written and full of information. David’s contact information is easily found. David also blogs on Active Rain. I’ve posted an article about Active Rain here on this site. Active Rain is great but I do warn of placing all of your eggs in the one proverbial basket. David’s outside blogs are a very good marketing strategy. I found a lot of good information from David on his active Rain site that I do not find on his Rocky Mount Blog.

Overall, I rate David’s Rocky Mount Blog an excellent start that should grow as David continues to write.

Since this is a review and meant to be helpful, I am making these observations:

• Place more colorful graphics and pictures on the Rocky Mount blog. It helps to capture the readers attention.

A quick Google search for “David Recker Rocky Mount” reveals search engine listings for David. This is great if you are specifically searching for David’s name.




A quick search for “Rocky Mount Real Estate” shows approximately 6600 broad Google searches per month. I found David’s corporate site on the third page of Google for that term. That’s not bad, but I feel that David could make a lot more $$ by practicing some good SEO and working towards page 1 or 2.

I always recommend that everyone, including Realtors, blog everywhere possible but realize that when you do, you do not actually own your own content. I recommend your own domain name and web hosting. Your blog is like real estate. You need to own it. I recommend a Wordpress Platform in addition to all other blogging platforms.

Bottom Line: If I were searching for real estate in Rocky Mount, NC. I would give David Recker a call for sure. David C Recker, Associate Broker, Realtor ® licensed in North Carolina. Reach David at: 252-442-2687

Visit David Recker’s Rocky Mount Blog.

Today, NC Realtors Who Blog has selected the great blog of Liz Freeman. Liz Freeman is a Realtor in Greenville, NC. She is associated with RE/MAX Preferred Realty.

From Liz’s About Page: As a Top Producer in real estate sales in Pitt County, Liz’s most recent accomplishments include selling 117 homes and over $18 million in sales volume in the year 2008, closing a home every 3 days. The Residential Specialist Magazine ranked her in the top ¼ of the residential Realtors nationwide. Her past experience as a middle school teacher helped develop her excellent organization, communication, marketing and negotiation skills. Liz’s full service, dynamic and highly-skilled team each serve a specialized role and work collectively to serve their clients.

Those are impressive stats and I was equally impressed with Liz’s blog site, Liz Freeman’s Homes. Liz’s site is laid out very well and easy to navigate. That means a lot to a client who lands on the site. I found the navigation bar to be excellent and offering me the types of choices that I would need as a client to find what I was looking for.

Her blog is updated frequently and that is a lesson that should be learned by all Realtors who blog. I can’t tell you how many times I visit Realtor blogs who skip months between writing articles. As a possible client, I would click away. Not with Liz, her articles are thoughtful and helpful. Her recent article, “Is owning Greenville Real Estate a good investment in this economy”? is a great article where Liz is offering value to her clients and readers. The article is well written and contains solid information for those interested in investing in property in Greenville, NC.

Liz Freeman also does a good job of mixing articles with her property listings. This is another example of how Realtors should blog. If you use your site to simply push your listings, traffic may find you but will most likely leave you. Liz mixes it all very nicely and it’s obvious she understands what her clients are looking for.

On the front page of Liz Freeman Homes, she gives her visitors an easy way to subscribe by a News Reader. This allows her readers to automatically be updated by way of their in-box, each time Liz posts a new article. This is very convenient and a good feature.

All of your standard features you would expect from a good Realtor site are present. MLS searches, New Listing Alerts and you can even subscribe to her newsletter. The listings of her own company are very comprehensive and easy to find. The company listings are full of good high quality photos which are very important to those searching for homes. Contact information and phone numbers are easily found.

Since this is a review, the only thing I would change about Liz’s blog is the fact that you have to register with an e-mail address before you can search listings. I understand the reasoning behind this but I also think that it can easily turn away potential clients. With regular, good article content that is keyword based for the search engines, I feel that Liz could easily dominate the search engines for Greenville Real Estate terms. Everything is in place.

Liz has an A+ site that she can be very proud of. If you are looking for real estate in Greenville, NC give Liz Freeman a call. She’s a professional and it shows.

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