Topics discussed in this article:
- What is the Seller Generation Tool?
- How to Enable the Tool
- How to Customize the Tool
- How to Add the Tool to The Website
- Adding the Tool to a Navigation Bar
- Seller Valuation Widget
- Adding the Widget to my Website
- Adding the Widget to another Website I own
- FAQ
What is the Seller Generation Tool?
The Seller Leads Generation Tool (also referred to as the Home Valuation Tool) gives you the opportunity to capture seller leads. We contracted with a third-party service to deliver home price estimates and combined this with our lead capture system to deliver seller leads right to your Lead Manager.
Leads will receive a property valuation based on public tax records. In addition to providing an estimated valuation of the property, leads will automatically be set up with a monthly-updating market report that emails the client with new updates in their area. Leads will also receive email updates based on their valuation results.
If you would like to test drive the seller leads tool, check out http://demo.realgeeks.com/cma/property-valuation
How to Enable the Tool
1. Go to home.realgeeks.com and click the “Home Valuation Tool” button
2. Check the “Enable” box
How to Customize the Tool
Landing Page URL
The link leads would use to directly access your valuation tool
This is the link you would use in advertisements to drive traffic directly to the tool to receive an estimate.
Auto-Responder Email Templates
Control the messages a lead receives when performing a valuation on the tool. You need to customize the message for two scenarios:
1. The lead receives a valuation right away after providing their information
2. The tool was unable to provide the lead an estimate, and let’s your lead know that you will be following up shortly (You can learn more about why the tool would not provide an immediate valuation here)
Landing Page Attributes
Header Text
Text that appears at the top of your valuation tool
Page Title
Title tags are displayed on search engine results pages (SERPs) as the clickable headline and also displays in your website browser tab to coordinate multiple pages a lead may have open at a time.
The title tag of a web page is meant to be an accurate and concise description of a page's content. A good example for this page would be “yourcompanyname + property estimate” (easypropertysearch property estimate)
Meta Description
The meta description is an HTML attribute that provides a brief summary of a web page.
Search engines such as Google often display the meta description in search results, which can influence click-through rates.
Meta Keywords
Meta keywords describe the content of a website shortly and concisely, and are therefore important indicators of a website's content to search engines.
The keywords are generally written in lower case, and separated with a comma.
Search Box Headline
The text that appears just above the input field where leads enter their address. Use this to provide more information or entice a lead to enter their contact information
Example Search Address
The filler text that appears. This is used to give the lead a guideline for how to format their address on the page. This will go away once a lead begins typing in the field
Landing Page Image
Select from our list of stock photos, or upload your own using the blue “Pick Image” button
Footer
Company Name
A required field that you’d put your company or broker name in. This appears at the very bottom of the page.
Navigation Bar
Coordinates with the website backend and allows you to display your own navigation links to get leads back to the website and appears at the very bottom of the page.
PROPERTY DETAILS PAGE
Show Widget
Designate whether you want the website “Seller Widget” to appear at the bottom of every property page on your website. This gives leads easier access to the tool so they can easily perform estimates on their home anywhere on the website.
How to Add the Tool to Your Website
If you are wanting to collect more seller leads, you want the tool to be as accessible as possible on your website so potential leads can easily find and perform a valuation.
Adding it to a Navigation Bar
1. go to home.realgeeks.com and click "Edit Website"
2. Scroll down and click "Navigation Bars"
3. Select the target navigation bar. We'll use the Primary Top Navigation Bar for our example
4. Scroll to the very bottom of the page to the last empty navigation bar option. There will ALWAYS be an empty space to create a new link
5. Leave the Type set to Custom Link
6. In the URL field, please place the following: /cma/property-valuation/
(/cma/property-valuation/ is the link that takes your leads to your website)
7. In the Anchor Text field, you want to type in how you'd like your page to appear as a hyperlink on the website. This will tell people where to click to get to your valuation tool. "What's my Home Worth" or "Property Estimate" are both popular options
11. Click Save
The anchor text indicates what people should click
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Seller Valuation Widget
Rather than taking the lead to a separate landing page, Real Geeks has developed a quick valuation widget that allows leads to perform a valuation without leaving a page. This can be added on a page within your Real Geeks website OR on a separate web page or website.
Adding the Widget to my Website
1. go to home.realgeeks.com and click "Edit Website"
2. Scroll down and click "Seller Leads Widget"
3. Set your Button Color (You can drag the color picker, or set your partiular "Hex Color Code"
4. Click the "Click to Get Code" button and copy the provided code (You can click into the code box and it will automatically highlight the required code for your. You just need to right click and press "Copy")
5. Close out of the code and press "Home" in the top-left corner
6. Scroll down and click "Sidebar"
7. Select the target sidebar. We'll use the Default Sidebar for our example
8. Scroll to the very bottom of the page to the last empty navigation bar option. There will ALWAYS be an empty space to create a new link
9. Set the Type set to Custom Content
10. Click the "Source Code" (<>) button and paste the code you copied from Step 4, then press "Ok"
11. Click "Save"
Adding the Widget to another Website I own
1. go to home.realgeeks.com and click "Edit Website"
2. Scroll down and click "Seller Leads Widget"
3. Set your Button Color (You can drag the color picker, or set your partiular "Hex Color Code"
4. Click the "Click to Get Code" button and copy the provided code (You can click into the code box and it will automatically highlight the required code for your. You just need to right click and press "Copy")
5. Send this code to your developer, or find resources to help you add this code to the website
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FAQ
Why did my lead not receive an estimate right away?
The home valuation tool relies on historic sold data and public records to formulate an estimate on a particular property. If there is not enough nearby data to put together an estimate, the lead will not be sent a message and instead will be prompted with a message saying that the agent will be reaching out shortly. This will simultaneously notify you so you can put together a report and reach out to them