You Tube Video Ranks #1 in Hours

I wrote a blog post a few days ago about Google indexing my blog posts within 15 or 20 minutes of publishing which is very exciting. Now it seems I’m getting Google love from my YouTube videos.

Here’s a prime example:

Yesterday I posted a property walk through Youtube video and within 2 hours it ranked number one in Google if you search by address: 5355 Medina Rd Woodland Hills, CA 91364

The Video is here:

See the Google results here.

I checked today and it’s ranked number 2 under a redfin.com listing 1 again! I’ll take that. The best part is I did no SEO work at all.

Today, I am going to start using http://www.tubemogul.com to see if I can really super charge my results.
I’ll keep you posted on my success.

Breaking The 2000 Follower Limit on Twitter

Yesterday I passed the 2000 following limit on twitter!! What’s interesting is I only have 1845 followers yet I am able to follow more than 2000 people. I had heard from so many different sources in order to follow more than 2000 people you had to have 2000 people or more following you. Not true.

So, I did a little research on Google and found many blogs talking about the “1,800 followers rule”, meaning once you hit 1,800 followers mark you can now follow 10% more than the previous 2000 limit. Not sure if this is true or not but it seems to hold true with my current situation.

I really don’t care about the rules and numbers of Twitter, I’m just glad I can follow more interesting people. Twitter has become an incredible tool for finding outstanding people and making valuable Business connections.

Follow me at http://twitter.com/ForeclosureData

Twitter Drops Spammers

On January 19, 2009 Twitter did its best to get rid of inactive accounts and spammers. At the time, my Twitter account (ForeclosureData) showed I had approximately 1660+ followers. Within about a half-hour I lost about 30 followers. I quickly checked the Twitter timeline and found this was a universal problem, so wasn’t something I said. In the picture below, the red arrow indicates a plateau in my daily increase, which is where Twitter did its update.

Twitter periodically cleans house, resulting in a drop in followers. I’m totally okay with this. I actually encourage this behavior from twitter. The more they can clean up the bad stuff the better the experience will be for people who are using twitter for legitimate means.

Oftentimes I have people follow me who are clearly spammers or someone impersonating another Internet personalities or celebrities. I generally follow anyone back who follows me. However, there are some exceptions.

Reasons not to follow
• If you’re following the max of 2000 people and no one is following you back
• You have not added a picture or logo, updated your Bio, and have no URL
• If you say something offensive to me, racist, sexist, etc.
• If you have a bunch “_”is in your username. Example__tiger-words___
• Clearly impersonating a celebrity

Other than that, I pretty much follow anyone as long as they have something interesting to say. Twitter has been an amazing tool for my business, as I’ve noted in a previous post, I continue to find amazing energetic and intelligent people through twitter. So if you’re in the real estate business or not, if you’re a social media expert or not, if you love sports or not, enjoy great food and wine or not, let’s connect via Twitter.

Social Media and Real Estate Go Hand and Hand

I use many social media sites to help promote my real estate investing business. By far the most popular and productive social media tool I use in my business is twitter. Twitter has proven to be an incredible resource for finding any type of talent. I have used it to find a handyman, a copywriter, real estate agents, BPO’s, etc… twitter has been a phenomenal tool for building my business. You can follow me here: http://twitter.com/ForeclosureData

YouTube has also been a great resource for making connections with industry leaders. Recently I’ve started posting video walk-throughs of short sale properties we have listings for. Today I was showing a property in Redondo Beach California and one of the potential home buyers that showed up had found the property through my YouTube channel. He recognized my voice from the videos and said “You are the YouTube guy right?” It was pretty cool to see my social media efforts translate into a real business lead. Not sure if he will put an offer on the house but the recognition of my social media efforts were confirmed.

Social media can be a very powerful tool when harnessed for business purposes. We’ve only scratched the surface with our interaction with twitter and YouTube. In the coming weeks we will also focus on Facebook and Flickr, as another source of traffic to our real estate website.

Here is the video that sparked this post: