What is your presence on the Internet? Do you know that the majority of users looking for any service or product start with a search on the Internet? Out of those users most of them use Google and the rest are mostly compiled of searches on Yahoo and MSN Live. In fact, statistics for May 2008 show that Google had 68% of U.S. searches. Definitely something you want to look at!

The question is, if someone is searching for you, are they finding you? What do you do? What’s your business? Are you finding buyers for Detroit Real Estate or are you just a Detroit Cash Flowinvestor that wants to make more contacts? Well, I’m here to tell you how you can do both. Social networking is nothing new to college students and younger people but it is fairly new (within the last couple of years) for business people and real estate investors. Not only does it provide a great place to meet other people and network but it also provides a great place to build your presence on the Internet. By utilizing social network sites you can post information on your website, your business, and blog with great content to get people to find you on search engines like Google. Does it work? Well, how did you find us?

There are many places for social networking like MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn, ActiveRain, and many others. I’m not here to tell you to sign-up for everything, I’m here to tell you where to concentrate your efforts for the maximum return on your time invested. I’m sure you can tell which ones I recommend. Out of every social networking site I have seen, the best ones are ActiveRain and LinkedIn for relevance to business. LinkedIn is specifically business focused and ActiveRain is real estate specific, which is even better! Start out by signing up for ActiveRain – Detroit Real Estate and work on getting your profile setup. Select a picture, write a description of your business and what you’re trying to accomplish, and follow the online guide to complete your profile. As you see, when you complete parts of your profile, you get more points. You also get points for commenting on blogs and blogging yourself. As you get more points, your ranking rises within your community.

Why do this? First off you will network with great people and get great information on real estate. Second, and maybe most important, is that Google loves ActiveRain.

As you blog about content, put your profile out with links to your website, and comment on other people’s blogs, Google will index that information and increase the rank of your site whether that’s your profile on ActiveRain or another outside website. Now, if you’re still waiting, go to ActiveRain – Detroit Real Estate and sign-up for an account to get started. Once you sign-up, send me a message on ActiveRain or reply to this e-mail and I will send you great tips for increasing your Search Engine Optimization via ActiveRain and how to get the most points out of your time on ActiveRain. It will supercharge your business and your real estate investing! Also, make sure you check out LinkedIn for a different take on social networking but I would definitely suggest ActiveRain first.

Get excited to build your web presence and make great connections on ActiveRain!

Successfully Yours,
Jared Pomranky
Detroit Market Expert