I want to have my own website instead of having a page on my broker's site. Can anyone recommend a good website builder that is geared towards RE? I want to be able to upload some regional pictures instead of having generic Americana images but otherwise I'm down with having an out-of-the-box template. I've used GoDaddy website tonight before but their real estate templates don't seem to have any specific tools built in.
I am interviewing with brokers next week and web marketing is going to be a big priority for me. I'm hoping it will be kosher for me to have my own url and web marketing as long as I am compliant with brokerage branding standards. The big dog around here is trying to get their agents to pay $35 - $70/month for a website that's only trackable in terms of traffic to the main url - not the individual agent. That won't work!
Why not try setting up a word press site on almost any cheap 5 or 6 bucks amonth webserver... usually they have fantastico to set up the wordpress site instantly and it has a very short learnign curve and google loves the wordpress blogs... then take the time to build a full website... and keep the blog as a very nice back link to your new site... Any post on a word press blog appears in google in hours when most web site pages usually take a few days to a few weeks to show up... google loves word press blogs.. even simple ones.
I second Tom's advice ^^^Above^^^. In addition to the love Google shows for Wordpress, or even better love for their own Blogger, blog-based websites are so much more versatile and easy to SEO, update, change (different themes), etc...
#318893 - 12/22/0912:54 PMRe: Best RE-specific Web Site Builder?
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[quote=Tom_Tiger]Why not try setting up a word press site on almost any cheap 5 or 6 bucks amonth webserver... usually they have fantastico to set up the wordpress site instantly and it has a very short learnign curve and google loves the wordpress blogs... then take the time to build a full website... and keep the blog as a very nice back link to your new site... Any post on a word press blog appears in google in hours when most web site pages usually take a few days to a few weeks to show up... google loves word press blogs.. even simple ones. [/quote]
AMEN!
I would say that WordPress can actually be your own site though. You can then have another WordPress blog linking back to it.
Anyway, if this seems like a daunting task you can simply use WordPress and then pay someone to modify it for you. Much cheaper than a properly done site and usually takes only a day or two to be 100% complete. Plus you will know it is done right!
This Google Custom search may do a better job of searching the forums for some keywords than the old forum search does. The results do not include threads from the Asset Managers Forum however. To search that forum you will need to be actually in the Asset Managers Forum and you will need to use the old forum search below.
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