I have a free Point 2 Point site and realize
it is a sub domain.
Are there any FREE sites that will allow
the use my of my domain?
T

The free point2 site is a subdomain, but you can forward a masked domain to it and no one could tell. I do it with www.topcharlestonhomes.com . You set this up through your registrar. Does this answer your question?

I also have a point2 site and I registered my domain through them. It was only $9 for a year. I was up and running in couple of hours.

Check it out: http://www.ePhiladelphiaRealEstate.com

Yes, you can get a www.realestatepromoter.com $800 website for free right now using this link:
http://www.realestatepromoter.com/partners/?aid=57

The free offer surfaces through partners every now and then. I just saw this one on the Sanzo Specialties website yesterday.

No websites are free. You'll get a very amatuer looking site that probably has ads all over it. Register your own site through Yahoo. It can cost you as little as $5 a year.

You should then post a note on craigslist.org in your area and get a freelancer to build you a nice site.

This will cost you less than $500, and your site will provide you the functionality you're looking for and project an image that can only help your business.

Banksonline-
I will have to disagree with you.

"No websites are free."?

I'm a member of Point2 network and they have 3 levels of websites, Standard, Professional and Premium.

Standard web site is free. That's what I have and I don't think it's an amatuerish looking site. To hire someone to build this web site with all the features that I have on the backend of it, would cost me thousands and thousands of dollars. When I login to my account, I can manage my prospects, domain and email accounts, view statistics, send out and receive emails, create Handshakes with other agents, connect with referrals, create listing brochures and so much more. It did not cost one penny. They also syndicate your listings to their own site and other real estate related sites for free. Sites on their list are Yahoo Real Estate, Google Real Estate, Trulia, Real Estate Advisors and many more.

How much would it cost to hire to build something like that? A lot of money.

Professional version does cost $39.95 a month and Premium costs $119.95 a month. Premium is made more for brokers, but in a few months I will be moving on up to the Professional version, because I would be able to take advantage of Drip Emails, Listing Presentations and much more. Plus I would have up to 250 pages to put on my site. For search engine optimization, having lots of good content is the key.

The Standard version of their site is free and the features and functionality they provide to agents is extremely useful in your every day activities.

Just my opinion.

There are a number of sites that are free out there, just make sure the free one has all of the features that you want and get it. If you want the whistles and bells you pay for it. I pay $19.95 a month for my site and it includes everything I need like featured properties, sms texts etc.

Yes, if folks out there think just because it is a "free" site it does not look professional, they have not seen what some of the free sites look like. Some of them are done by lenders or others in the industry... they pay the "free" company to be listed on the "free" sites, but the site itself looks fantastic. I have seen many more great looking "free" template sites than I have "freelanced" sites many agents buy. The REALLY GREAT looking freelance sites can cost several thousand bucks to start up. Add to that the fact that many of the "free" sites already have some built in traffic from the network of agents who are also on the site. I would agree, not all of them are great looking, but most of the "free" sites are more user friendly to an agent than customizing something with a frelancer. Especially when it comes to adding listings, etc...

Raymond

Raymond

Terry:
(Thanks for the help...I have my domain "pointed" to my P2A site....so no longer a sub-domain site.)

Others:
The free site at P2A is meant to be a
jumping off point...and that is what it is.

I love mine and will upgrade soon.

A PR of 5+ should be any agents goal...this will
not happen with a free site.

T

Well said Russell Volk. P2A member, myself and love it.

Solomon,
You gotta get rid of your P2A subdomain.
http://solomongreene.point2agent.com/
Very bad for SEO.
Tom

Thomas Ray, I'm still a newbie at this internet stuff, so I'm not sure what a subdomain is. http://www.TheAtlantaHomePages.com and http://www.AtlantaMetroHomeSite.com both point to my http://SolomonGreene.Point2Agent.com. And after having spoken to one SEO customer service person, I understood that the use of http://SolomonGreene.Point2Agent.com was appropriate on line while the others were recommended off line. I welcome your thoughts.

Here's an update. I'm a P2A standard user. Looks like I would have to upgrade to Professional in order to change my domain name at the site so that it always reads TheAtlantaHomePages.com. If correct, that's sort of a let down. But I'm moving up in the agent rankings in Gwinnett County daily as it is. Hopefully, Google and others will look kindly on me.

Solomon,
There is no reason at all to keep you P2A site
as a sub-domain ie http://SolomonGreene.Point2Agent.com.

The "point2agent" indicates this is a subdomain
under the domain of Point2Agent. Again, this will not help your SEO efforts.

It is very easy to change.
Go to your P2A site and login.
You should be on the page that reads "Online
Office".
Go to "Domains and Email".
Go to "Domain Store".
Point existing Domain name.
Point Domain w/out assistance.
Follow instructions.

And then, after you changed the nameservers
etc., go to "Default Domain"
where you will see a drop down menu.
Set the default here.

That's it...
Tom

Solomon,

You may want to "mask your domain name." I do it for all of my websites including my free Point2Agent website.

Masking the domain name hides the Point2Agent subdomain and imho makes the site look more professional.

I mask the domain at my domain host (GoDaddy.) If you have a domain host you may want to do the masking with them. Its free to do so. At least with GoDaddy it is.

We all know how people want to sell us agents something This way... it's FREE

- L

Masking is a seperate issue...doing that does not
remove the Point2 from his URL.
Tom

He can do that with Point2 but he can also do it at his domain hosting company.

As for removing the Point2 from his URL... for me it's a non-issue. Yes, it shows where the page resolves but the end product the domain is masked.

For some it's trivial it the "Point2 address" is seen during the process. Instead to some what matters is the end product. As in resolving the domain to a domain name instead of to the Point2 subdomain address.

Many of my clients don't notice that gee... some of my sites resolve to a Point2website. Gasp. No, it's trivial to them.


Instead to them it matters more what I can do for them. How can they benefit? Than if they see a Point2 address while the URL is resolving.

To each or her own but there are different solutions and different ways to resolve "problems."

Anyway I hope this helped you, Solomon.

- L

Again, as far as I know, you will not be able
to SEO you site if you keep the subdomain. Masking is not the issue.

When you set up a P2A site, the default URL
is the P2 addy...this is supposed to be changed
with P2A.

T

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My two cents

Alexander

Hello all!

I've been away for awhile. Thanks for everyone's feedback. As you'll see by my link, http://www.TheAtlantaHomePages.com, my domain is no longer a subdomain (if I understand the term correctly). By the way, the P2A discussion board also discourages masking, something to do with SEO.

Thanks again for everyone's help. Gotta go sell something!

OK, P2A finally processed the domain and it should no longer be a subdomain if I understand the term. Thanks for everyone's feedback!

Hi Solomon

Your URL here didn't resolve due to an extra character, a comma that was placed before the forward slash

http://www.theatlantahomepages.com,/

Thus a problem with websites. Far too often some people focus on trivial matters when the URL may be mispelled. What good is it?

But yeah some people do think they have all the answers but this only shows how some things can matter more... like a mispelled URL

Just a thought.

- L