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Realtor Websites from TourRE are created from the start to be search engine friendly; to allow you full control over how search engines find and index your site.

No other website system offers the power and control that a Realtor website from TourRE can offer. We give you all the tools you will need to effectively market yourself online all for about the cost of a one-time print advertisement.

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Realtor Websites from TourRE

Realtor Websites from TourRE

30 Seconds…
That’s all it takes to gain or lose a prospective real estate client. Web studies have shown that the average user views a site for just 30 seconds before they decide to use the site or move on to the next. If your site is unattractive, or hard to use you may be losing your portion of a valuable real estate market share.
The clock is ticking…

Tour Real Estate Inc has been providing the best in realtor websites for nearly a decade – setting the standard for the real estate technology industry. Our template Realtor websites are more than just sites in a can; offer a level of control and elegant design that rivals high-end custom websites — all for a price close to what you might pay for a one-time print advertisement.

TourRE helps build super-agents! We give you all the tools you need and that your clients demand in order to provide the best service available online today. We offer template Realtor Websites as well as Semi-custom Realtor Websites which are controlled through a powerful back-end toolbox that puts YOU in control. Our Realtor website functionality includes:

• control how search engines view your Realtor website
• created unlimited custom pages and content
• RSS Feeds of your listings
• EVERY listing has it’s own webpage with a print friendly URL
• FULL MLS Search 24/7
• capture leads from every point of contact on your site
• a rental listings database
• every listing searched for through your site brands YOU as the contact agent
• comprehensive Realtor website and listing statistics
• FAST easy to use searches
• and much much more!

Still not convinced? Visit our website to view examples of our Realtor websites, Real Estate Office websites, and read up on more of the great services we can offer for today’s progressive Real Estate Agents.

Every Listing has it’s own single use site!

We have modified our Direct Home Link function to make it even better! Now named Single Use Sites, you can now use this great tool to not only create short easy to use URLs for your listings but to also create a stylish look to showcase your listing as it’s own website!

In addition, you can track the hits each Single Use Site is receiving in order to follow which advertising medium is most beneficial to marketing your listing.

How do Single Use Sites work?

Every active listing is automatically assigned 5 Single Use Site link numbers based on the last five digits of it’s MLS number and then A-D.

example: mls listing number 98409898 has five Single Use Site links

www.yoursite.com/09898
www.yoursite.com/09898a
www.yoursite.com/09898b
www.yoursite.com/09898c
www.yoursite.com/09898d

You can also create your own Single Use Site links in addition; name them however you like (ex: www.yoursite.com/100). By creating these custom links you can reuse sign riders created using them for new listings by assigning the new listing of your choice with the custom link number.

By using a specific Single Use Site link for differing individual advertisment uses you can then track which direct link is receiving the most traffic and adjust your marketing dollars for maximum results.

For Example:

You have a new listing, MLS number 98409898. In the Single Use Sites section of your toolbox you create four custom Single Use Site links for this listing – 100,200,300,400.

You use the sign with the link www.yoursite.com/100 in front of the house.
You create an ad in the newspaper using the link www.yoursite.com/200.
You purchase an ad in a local real estate zine using link www.yoursite.com/300.
You send out a Just Listed card mailer campagin using link www.yoursite.com/400.

Single Use Sites keeps track of how many hits are received on each of your Single Use Site link URLs. So for instance your listing might receive alot of traffic and you are receive 40 hits from your sign in front of the house, but you notice that the link you used in the newspaper only receives 5 hits, and your number you used in the real estate zine receives 20 hits…In this manner you can see that you may want to increase your advertising focus on the real estate zine next week, or on having an open house, rather than running a less effective ad in the newspaper or elsewhere.

Once your listing sells, keep your sign riders and reassign your custom created link numbers to a new listing. This allows you to essentially recycle your signs, and to see exactly where your listing views are coming from, giving you great insight into how your marketing dollars are working.

Tour Real Estate becomes DriveBuy Technologies Affiliate

Tour Real Estate arms agents and brokers with innovative mobile marketing solutions to sell properties.

AUSTIN, TX – June 19,2009 – Tour Real Estate has selected DriveBuy Technologies as the preferred mobile marketing solution provider for their customers. With a tightening real estate market, Tour Real Estate is excited to showcase affordable, new and innovative technologies that increase their client’s ROI.

With DriveBuy, REALTORS® display their unique text message codes on property promotions and yard signage, making it easy for prospective buyers to request and receive detailed information about a property via text message while on-site and in real time. An embedded link takes them to a custom-branded mobile web page featuring pictures, agent information, and links to an agent’s other listings.

Prospective buyers become qualified leads as agents receive text and/or email alerts automatically, making it easy for follow-up.

“Our business caters to agents and brokers seeking to market their brand. DriveBuy has been responsive to agents and brokers wishing to create a seamless user experience from signage and business cards to the custom branded mobile websites and branded keywords used throughout the text messaging platform they provide. Their product was a perfect match with what our customers want.”

“Tour is a leading service provider in the western region of the United States, and they have a proven track record of innovation with technology and real estate marketing. We’re excited to work with Tour. Their team shares our commitment to customer success and DriveBuy is now another weapon in their arsenal. Our current customers are very happy with the platform and their results. We’re sure to enhance the marketing and branding strategies of Tour’s customers,” says Dylan Schleppe, President of DriveBuy Technologies.

About DriveBuy Technologies

DriveBuy Technologies is the leading provider of interactive mobile marketing solutions for the real estate industry, with customers across the US. Agents and brokers from RE/MAX, Century 21, Keller-Williams, Prudential and Coldwell Banker are using the platform, along with hundreds of independent agents . DriveBuy empowers real estate professionals to leverage mobile technologies including branded sms/text messaging for marketing their properties. Further information about DriveBuy Technologies is available at http://www.drivebuytech.com

About Tour Real Estate Inc.

Tour Real Estate is a full-service real estate service provider located in Meridian, Idaho. Tour specializes in providing agents and brokerages websites and tools to enhance their web presence and provide prospects with advanced information about listings and services. For more information, visit http://www.tourre.com

REO and Foreclosure Options for our Dreamhome Program

Our Dreamhome program allows visitors to enter a criteria of features they desire in a home; have listings matching those criteria automatically sent to their email daily or weekly. You can also create search profiles for clients via your Client Toolbox in order to provide specific results automatically.

This automated home search is  even more powerful as it can now deliver REO/Bank Owned and Foreclosure listings to your users. Our Dreamhome program gives users the ability to modify their criteria as they choose should they not find the results they want initially, or you can modify their profile easily via our Client Center to hand-craft a search for clients with specific needs. REO and Foreclosure listings are a hot-ticket item in current real estate market and now you can offer these listings to your visitors and clients via our automated Dreamhome search with just a click.

It’s not a dream – it’s REALITY – brought to you by Tour Real Estate! Not a TourRE client? Find out what your competition already knows: TourRE is the best in the business! Contact us today to find out how our elegant, effective websites can work as a powerful marketing tool for you and your services!

Your Meta-tags and you…

The meta-tag information your site contains is often the first thing a search engine will read when indexing your site. While meta-tags do not carry the weight in affecting your overall search engine placement that they once did they are still KEY to your website being properly indexed, and thusly found.

Your three basic tags are: Title, Description, and Keywords. While they are all important many experts argue that your Title tag will carry the most importance of these three. Generally you will want to keep your Title tag down to a maximum of ten words – any more than this often will not even be read by the search engines or in some cases may cause you to be penalized. Your Description tag is a place for you to display a brief synopsis of your site, or services; generally you will want to keep this down to 20-30 words. Your Keyword tag is a section of focused words relevant to your site or services – separated by comma’s – and should relate strongly to the market you wish to serve; should be a maximum of 20 words.

Via our Client Toolbox you have complete control over every meta-tag on every page of your site. You will want to go through these pages and add unique info for each one (a generic tag will show throughout if nothing is entered by you). By having unique information specific to each page in your meta-tags you can help search engines not only more accurately index your site but also improve your search engine position and how customers find you.

Symphony – Our latest template

Our latest real estate website template – “Symphony”

This newest real estate website template features the easy navigation of our flash based templates combined with the custom control allowed by our modular websites, all bundled in an attractive design.

Don’t be embarrassed to send clients to your website ever again, get an elegant, powerful real estate website from Tour Real Estate Inc. !

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The Best in Real Estate Websites

Quick Search Module

Announcing our latest release for our modular based Realtor website templates! Get your real estate website visitors right into the results for their next dream home fast with our Quicksearch module!

This very basic module is a free addition to our modular Realtor website templates which allows visitors to quickly search for listings by city, price, beds, and baths.

You can add this module to your real estate template website quickly and easily via our client toolbox. Simply login, click Customize Home Page Content. Next click Add Default Home Page Module and choose Quicksearch from the list. Click submit to complete this process. You can also of course always contact your TourRE admin to have this module installed for you at no additional charge – QUICK SEARCH MODULE REQUEST

View Examples of this module:

AA Realtors Boise
Boises Best Real Estate

More than websites in a can…

Everyone knows that Tour Real Estate Inc offers the very best in template real estate websites, custom real estate web design, and real estate print marketing. What alot of people may not realize is that our templated real estate websites are not like other generic templates that some companies may offer. Fact is, our template websites offer more power and control than many high-end custom web designs!

While your templated real estate website may share a similar layout as other agents who may be using that same template we provide you with several color themes for almost every one of our templates, as well as variously themed Flash slideshows, so you can declare your individuality at no extra cost. Beyond that our modular templates allow you to customize our pre-made landing page components or even create your own with just a few clicks. Beyond the numerous methods for customizing available to our real estate web design clients for free we also offer the very finest in semi-custom modifications to our websites — allowing our customers to add their unique branding to a templated site for a fraction of what a fully custom web site might cost.

Moreso, by purchasing one of our template real estate websites you have access to ALL of the elegantly designed template websites available – 50+ and growing! – in our library. This means you can change your website every day if you so desire until you find the look thats just right – all with just a few clicks, and all without extra cost! It’s like having 50 websites for the cost of just one!

In today’s technology based market I simply can not stress enough how very important your online presence is to the success of your business. Over 80% of potential customers research a Realtor online before they even consider doing business with them – you MUST be online to reach this audience, and your website MUST be the very best. That said, do not delay and risk losing your valuable share of profits in this difficult market — Get a real estate website from TourRE TODAY!