Hi
I am new to the forum. My website has beengetting a few hits, but very few calls or emails. Any suggestions?

www.drsellshomes.com

Add more content, perhaps require an email registration for your articles, mls search, etc. Also, start a link exchange campaign to help boost your search engine placement and provide additional web traffic.

your home search is returning a scripting error.

Your website looks great, however, don't expect to get a lot of traffic off it for several months. It takes at least that long for your site to "percolate" through the search engines. I've been very proactive about submitting my site to the engines and linking with quality sites. My site has been up two months now, and still not ranking highly in Yahoo. I'm waiting for DMOZ to review my site to give me a chance with Google.

I recommend submitting your site with DMOZ as soon as possible. FOLLOW THEIR DIRECTIONS VERY CAREFULLY. The engines also look at your incoming traffic for popularity. No traffice=no search engine rankings.

What to do? Look at your site more as a representation of your proffesional status for the next year. Tell EVERY prospect about it. Mine has a client log-in feature where my buyers and sellers can check the status of their transaction. It keeps them coming back. I'm probably wrong but I don't beleive in capturing email addresses, at least not now.

Here's a good link:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ Scroll down to the keyword suggestor, it will tell you home many times a day some searches for Colorado Springs real estate.

Wow, update to yesterdays posts. I got a call today from my website! Someone called my cell and said they found my website and decided to call me. We'll be looking at homes soon.

I asked how they found it and they didn't know, but once we meet in person I will sure find out!

Btw, my site is web page .

I just received the first phone call from my website (I have received 20 some email form responses). I just finished formatting my blog page. Should have it started this weekend and plan to blog 2 to 3 times weekly.

Thanks for the advice and help so far.

Dmoz isn't needed to rank in Google.

Any proof of your claim about traffic? Also please tell us how the search engines know how much traffic a site is getting.

nice website.

Dmoz isn't needed to rank in Google, though I've read in many difference places that it helps.

I don't know how the search engines can tell how much traffic your site is getting. I believe this is a major factor in a sites ranking, however. I follow my local competitors site closely. A template site with pretty poor text and not much else to offer figures highly in all of the major engines. It has some pretty poor quality links and not a lot of them. It seems traffic is the deciding factor for this particular Z57 site, since their are many, many other Z57 sites that are almost exactly the same that have nowhere near the power to rank highly in the engines like the site I'm referring to.

I think the traffic to this particular site was generated offline. I can give you names of sites if you'd like via email, don't feel like promoting my competitors here. It's leading me to believe that I need a massive, hardcopy marketing campaign to generate traffic to my site. Either that, or resort to link exchanges, which a few other sites locally have done well with.

Overall traffic can't be a factor, the search engines can only track how much traffic goes to a site from their SE. The click through rate is claimed to be a factor, but this can be manipulated so I don't see that being to big of a factor. Don't forget there are many items that are factored into the SERP's.

PM me the sites in question and the keywords as there is probably is something that you are missing, but it is always easier for an outsider to see it. We get so attached to our own work that we think that it must be the best.

As for offline marketing, it's a must. Even with top positions online you need to brand yourself and your site. This way if G changes their algo and you drop to page 2 you will still have traffic. The local people you are advertising to are your target market anyways. An added benefit is if they have seen your URL 10 times from print ads then they search and see it they will click you first even if your #2. Make sure to have the money for at least a 6 month campain set aside before you start.

6 month campaign, lol. I barely have enough money to pay my cell phone bill! C21's split is eating me alive!

I'm sending the site names over ken. Any ideas would be appreciated...

Hey, ditto on being a newbie and needing some feedback on my website. Please have a look: http://www.jasonkingrealtor.com

Realize, it's a work in progress and I'm trying to tackle this whole endeavor myself. Thanks in advance...

JTKing

Jason - The first thing I would do is minimize how much you are promoting C21. You want to brand yourself, not C21.

I agree Ken. Initially my website did not include that large overbearing image on the right. In order for me to be included in the coporate search however, I have to abide by their corporate rules. One (and the most obvious) being a C21 logo at a 4:1 ratio with the local company name getting the quarter sized billing.

If anyone has an idea, suggestion or proven solution for a better way to incoporate these rules into the website please let me know.

Thanks
JTKing

Make the local CO name even smaller. Then put the C21 branding at the very bottom of the page, now at a smaller size.

You could also just get your own IDX or VOW and not have to bother following C21's rules.