Yea, right!!! - If that was your first reaction when you saw the headline for this article, do not worry you are not the first one. In fact when I recommended Hittail as must to have tool for every real estate website, I have received somewhat similar reaction by some one from SEO Web Design:
Erm… still requires money? The features work exactly the same as Google Analytics and Webmasters Tools. However, i think Google is far better because it allows us to set goals to track our landing page conversions, shows the query terms that your website appears in, search terms that get you visitors and much more. It is free and has no limits on the number of visitors. Isn’t it better? I don’t know, it is up to our friends here and i am just sharing. Cheerz
I am not going to argue that Hittail is better that Google analytics. However, it was Hittail and not Google who brought me through their “suggestions” to a point when I can say without slightest exaggeration that with Hittail I am better off by about $1,725 each month.
As they say pictures are worth more than words, so I have taken some snapshots from my Hittail Account to demonstrate to you how much Hittail really helped me. The images below are the snapshots from the “Keywords” tab. If you are using Hittail you can find that info just above the list of keywords under the “Keywords” tab. That info changes from day to day depending on the search hits to your website. As you will see from the snapshots below I am currently tracking 5 websites with Hittail. All of them are listed under the “free account”. All of the websites below, had virtually no natural traffic from the search engines wen I started to use Hittail.
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It is true, the figures in the above images are calculated on $0.50 per click basis. It is also true that if you optimize your lading pages well you can maintain $0.10 per click. However there are niches, including real estate, where even well optimized PPC campaigns can cost you a $1 or $2 per click. Sometimes even more. So at the end of the day Hittail’s calculation is not that much off after all.
One very important part that Hittail users may miss is that by using Hittail suggestions it is much easier to maintain those coveted $0.10 per click campaigns. Hittail has helped me not only to increase natural search traffic. It also helped me to keep my PPC nice and clean with hundreds of keywords at $0.10 per click.
Am I saying you should abandon Google Analytics? Absolutely not! Hittail and Google Analytics can work with different data providing different analytics and you can benefit greatly from both.
In my next article I getting down and dirty with showing you how to make use of Hittail Suggestions. So please, stay tuned and subscribe to my blog.
If you are a real estate agent or a webmaster working for on a real estate website, you are probably concerned with the traffic generating strategies. You maybe working hard on optimizing your pay per click campaigns as well as trying to bring visitors through natural search results from across search engines. You know how expensive pay per click campaign can become on Google if your landing pages are not optimized well. But you also may know that the traffic resulting from neutral results in the search engines is the best, not only because it’s free but because internet users seem to trust natural results more. You have probably used countless tools to analyze your traffic and its sources. But if you have not tried Hittail yet, it is probably time to give this service another look.
Hittail, developed by a team at Connors Communications, is a peace of software that analyzes the source of the traffic to your website as well as keywords used by the internet users to find your website. In the process Hittial filters out the keywords and offers your suggestions (keywords or key phrases) that if acted upon can bring your website to the top of the natural search results. You can also use the information provided by Hittail to improve your existing pay per click campaigns.
At this time Hittail offers two different membership levels: Basic and Plus. If you are not sure which plan suits you the best, I would recommend to subscribe to Free Basic plan first. This plan will allow you to track and analyze up to 100,000 visits per month. If you think your website receives more than 100,000 visitors a month or you would like to use other advanced feature available with paid plans, you can always update your account at the later time.
Hittail is probably one of the easiest to use solution out there. All you need to do after registering your website is to place one piece of javscript code on each page of your website or in the common file (preferably footer) of your website if the pages your website generated dynamically but every page uses this common file. This will save you time if you have a website with hundreds of pages. After you install the code your job is done (well almost- stay tuned to learn more) and the rest is done by Hittail.
I will be writing more article in the future to show you have you can use Hittail and other marketing tools such as PRWeb, to maximize your results. So please subscribe to this blog. For now I leave you with the following YouTube presentation by Mike Levin:
Plano, TX (PRWEB) December 29, 2007 — Blitzproperties.com (A Licensed Texas Brokerage) debuted in DFW this week with an overwhelming positive response. With the support of local DFW media companies, Blitz Properties will enter the market with a very aggressive marketing campaign for both agents and home buyers.
They feel that many real estate agents are being micro-managed by the established big brokerages. Many agents MUST attend Monday morning meetings as well as make hours of phone calls to friends and family asking for leads. Well the real estate industry is changing. This is why Blitz feels their business model will be ideal for the agent that is looking for a company presence in the industry along with a non-corporate feel.
Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) December 30, 2007 — Adam Mermelstein of TreeTop Development is reporting strong sales at its two new luxury condominium buildings situated just blocks from historic Washington Street in the Hudson County City of Hoboken, NJ.
Market conditions currently being experienced in surrounding housing markets have seemingly had little effect on the collection of 33 luxury one-and two-bedroom homes as nearly 50% of the new condominiums are already sold, according to Adam Mermelstein, a principal of TreeTop Development, which is developing the new-construction buildings on Jackson Street between the Washington St. corridor and the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail's 9th Street Station.
About TreeTop Development: Led by General Partners Azi Mandel and Adam Mermelstein, TreeTop Development, LLC is a multi-faceted real estate concern with a focus on developing luxury condominium buildings in key urban centers throughout the New York Metropolitan area. The company also actively acquires existing rental properties in the region with an eye towards modernizing living spaces, common areas and building systems before returning them to market. For more information on the company and its properties, visit www.treetopdev.com
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According to some reportsFoxtons a New Jersey based real estate firm may be filing for bankruptcy. Foxtons were well known in New York Metropolitan area for selling homes for as little as 2% commission, while traditional brokers ‘ fee in the same are is about 6%.
Young real estate agents where often attracted by the monthly salary as well as use of the company car and some other benefits offered by Foxtons. But no more. Foxtons announced to release 350 of their 380 employees.
When selling your home through a real estate agent, generally two agencies are involved in the transaction, the sellers broker and the buyers broker. The traditional fee is generally divided on 50/50 split basis. While Foxtons have attracted many sellers by their low commission, other Realtors may have avoided showing properties listed by Fostons because of the low potential income.
January 23, 2008
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Young real estate agents where often attracted by the monthly salary as well as use of the company car and some other benefits offered by Foxtons. But no more. Foxtons announced to release 350 of their 380 employees.
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