BiggerPockets sells marketplace leads to agents by city, and the new Head of Sales will own that revenue. The sitemap lists 1,299 city agent pages, and their search descriptions print the live agent count: "0 Best Real Estate Agents in Cookeville, TN", "1 Best Real Estate Agents in Lexington, KY", "1 Best ... Levelland, TX", "2 Best ... Miami Beach, FL". An investor who searches for an agent in Lexington sees a result that promises one, and a page with none is a dead end that Google may treat as thin.
First action
Export all 1,299 city pages with their agent counts and Search Console clicks.
How to measure it
Agent memberships from thin-market outreach
- Now
- –
- Target
- 100
- By
- 1 quarter
Steps
Export the pages
City, agent count, clicks and impressions.
SEO Manager 1 day
Fix the template
No count under five; better wording.
Engineering Lead 2 days
Handle empty cities
Noindex or merge into the metro page.
SEO Manager 2 days
Add fallbacks
Nearby agents and a forum prompt on thin pages.
Engineering Lead 1 week
Rank markets
Search demand divided by agents listed.
Growth Analyst 2 days
Build the sales list
Top 100 markets with agent prospects.
Head of Sales 1 week
Run outreach
Pitch the open market to local agents.
Head of Sales 1 month
Measure
Clicks to city pages and memberships sold.
Growth Analyst monthly
Build the prospect list. The list compiled from public sources, verified, deduplicated and delivered to your CRM. Usually live within days.
Book a working sessionWhy it works
Change the template now: drop the count from the title and description when it is under five ("Investor-friendly real estate agents in Lexington, KY: find agents who understand cash flow"), mark zero-agent pages noindex or merge them into the nearest metro page, and show nearby agents and a "post your deal in the forum" option on thin pages. Then turn the same list into a sales target list: cities with search demand and fewer than three agents are where an agent gets the most from a Business membership.
It fixes the search snippet investors see, stops dead-end pages, and gives the sales team a ranked list of markets where the product sells itself ("you would be one of two agents listed").
Ready to use
ChecklistCity page fix list
[ ] No agent count in title or description when under five [ ] Zero-agent cities merged into the nearest metro page or set to noindex [ ] Nearby agents shown on thin pages [ ] "Post your deal" forum prompt on thin pages [ ] Same rules for property manager, lender and tax pro pages [ ] Ranked list of cities by search demand per agent for sales
Risks and how to handle them
Losing traffic from noindexed pages
Merge into nearby metros instead of removing.
Agents fill cities, then churn
Track leads per agent per city.
Evidence
- Your websiteThe sitemap lists 1,299 city pages for investor-friendly agents (plus city pages for property managers and state pages for lenders and tax pros). In a sample of nine, the search description reads "0 Best Real Estate Agents in Cookeville, TN", "1 Best Real Estate Agents in Lexington, KY", "1 Best Real Estate Agents in Levelland, TX", "1 Best Real Estate Agents in Lomita, CA" and "2 Best Real Estate Agents in Miami Beach, FL"; Toledo, OH shows "3 Best". Each says "Find top ... Realtors and Agents that specialize in buying and selling investment properties."Source
- Your websiteBusiness Membership: "from $250/mo" plus "$50/mo per additional seat"; business profiles and team pages "built to rank in Google and have visibility in AI search"; map pins; top-of-forum visibility; an optional leads marketplace where "Agents buy by city; lenders and tax professionals buy by state"; a business dashboard with CSV export; and "BiggerPockets MCP access" where "Lead access is launching soon; market analysis access will follow later".Source
- HiringHead of Sales (remote, full-time; open on the careers page on October 20, 2026): "lead and grow our sales team, spanning advertising/sponsorship sales and marketplace lead sales to real estate professionals. This is a player-coach role - you'll carry your own book of business while building the systems, process, and coaching that help the whole team perform at a higher level."Source