Real Estate SEO
Real estate SEO that brings buyers and sellers to you
SEO for real estate agents, teams and brokerages: rank for neighborhood, home value and listing searches, and capture buyer and seller leads you own.
The opportunity
Where SEO wins for real estate teams and brokerages
Portals own most real estate searches, and agents pay them for leads. Real estate SEO helps teams and brokerages take some of that demand back with neighborhood and community pages, seller-focused content and local authority, so leads come to you directly and are not shared with other agents.
Pages we build
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Neighborhood guides
Detailed pages for the communities you serve.
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Seller pages
Home valuation, selling process and market reports.
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Buyer pages
First-time buyers, relocation and new construction.
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Agent and team profiles
Experience, sales history and reviews.
What makes it different
What generic SEO gets wrong about Real Estate SEO
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Portal dominance
We target neighborhood and seller searches where agents can win.
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Listing content
IDX pages are often duplicate. Unique local content is what ranks.
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Seller leads
Seller-focused content is usually the highest-value focus.
Our approach
How we run SEO for real estate teams and brokerages
We run SEO for professional services firms around practice areas and intent: deep practice pages, attorney and advisor profiles that show expertise, local authority in your markets and intake tracking that tells you which searches turn into retained clients.
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Prioritize by case or client value
Practice areas are ranked by fee value, win rate and capacity. We go after the work you want more of, not the easiest keywords.
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Build practice-area depth
A hub for each practice with supporting pages for the specific questions, situations and locations prospects search.
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Show credibility
Professional bios, credentials, publications, case results where permitted and reviews, structured so search engines understand who you are.
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Track intake to signed client
Call tracking and form attribution connected to your intake or CRM, so reporting shows consultations and retained clients by practice area.
Included
What your program includes
- Practice-area page architecture
- Professional profile pages
- Local SEO and GBP for each office
- Legal and financial content within advertising rules
- Authority link building
- Intake and consultation tracking
- AI search visibility tracking
- Monthly lead and revenue report
Reporting
What we measure
- Seller valuation requests
- Buyer inquiries
- Rankings for neighborhood searches
- Closed transactions from organic
Engagement
How an engagement runs
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01 Weeks 1–3
SEO & revenue audit
We crawl your site, map the searches your buyers make, size the gap to your competitors and check whether your tracking can tie search to revenue.
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02 Week 4
Roadmap
A prioritized plan for the next 90 days and the year ahead, ranked by revenue impact and effort, with the targets we will report against.
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03 Months 2–4
Build
Technical fixes, new and improved money pages, local profiles, content and links. You see the work as it ships, not in a report at the end of the month.
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04 Ongoing
Compound
Monthly sprints on what is working, a report in leads and revenue every month and a strategy review every quarter. SEO gets cheaper per lead the longer it runs.
FAQs
Real Estate SEO questions
Can real estate agents compete with Zillow and other portals?
Not for every search, but agents can win neighborhood, community and seller searches with local depth that portals do not have.
Do IDX listings help SEO?
Usually not much, because the same listings appear on many sites. Unique neighborhood and market content does the ranking.
Do you follow bar and industry advertising rules?
Yes. Content is written to avoid guarantees and misleading claims, and you approve anything that references results, credentials or testimonials.
Can you work alongside our marketing team?
Yes. Many firms have a marketing lead or coordinator. We own the SEO strategy and execution and work to their brand and approval process.
How do you measure success?
Consultations and signed clients from organic search, by practice area. Rankings and traffic are leading indicators, not the goal.
Work with Vemlo
Talk to us about Real Estate SEO.
Tell us about your business. If you are doing $250K or more a year, we will review your site and market before we speak and show you where organic growth will come from.