I am a new agent with a home made website. I bought a good domain name, included the MLS search. I included the keywords, etc.

But what else do I need to do (that is free) to generate leads? I have very little funds to do any more. I need to sell at least 1 property soon.....

COuld someone advise on which keywords/phrases I need to include?

I can take all the constructive critism I can get!

Jessforce
www.HomesofWarnerRobins.com

You can use the keyword research tool at http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ to figure out what keywords you should be targeting

You did a excellent job. I like your site and appluad your ability on a job well done. Your next step should be to find free directories to list your site in. Be sure the directory links use your keyword in the anchor text. IE: "Homes of Warner Robins" if that is the key phrase you are going for, while your at it you should use any furom sigs in the same way. Just research your keywords first to make sure it is a searched for keyword. You should then do some on page seo for your chosen keyword phrase.

Here's another tool for keyword research:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

I'm not sure you're going after a very productive keyword phrase. You may want to spend some time in Search Engine Optimization forums and research what you should do to find high quality search phrases and see how much competition there is on each.

Also you can find out what you should do to your HTML to perform better. Your website looks nice to the human eye, but I'm afraid it's not very appealing to the spiders and bots.

Example:


but you don't use your keyword phrase anywhere on your page... so the search engines will be confused about the "topic" of this page/site. It's sees the phrase Warner Robins several times, but it doesn't see Homes of Warner Robins or Warner Robins real estate anywhere?

With your limited budget, I'm not sure going after website traffic is the way to go for you. You may want to go the more traditional approach, FSBO's, expireds, door knocking... all of these are free.

There are a couple of things you can do. There are plenty of free web directories you can get links in, you can write some press releases and distribute those over the net for free, you could also do the same with real estate articles and you could start a link exchange campaign. All of the above are free and will help your natural rankings on the major search engines.

looks good, I would probably work on this image a bit
http://www.homesofwarnerrobins.com/PeggyhomesofWR.jpg

Looks like you have a stroke around your picture mayby just need a bit of a touch up in photoshop.

Peggy,

There are some non-technical things you can do yourself to drive traffic to your site.

Make sure your web address is prominent on everything: yard signs, business cards, brochures, listing flyers, mailings, advertising - any printed material.

When you meet someone and exchange business cards, invite the person to visit your website at the address on your card. Very often, people never read your business card, and won't realize you have a website.

Then, if you can edit your site yourself, or inexpensively, add some buyer/seller information to your site and when people ask questions, tell them they can get more information on your website. Or, make an offer on your website for a free report, for example. Tell people they can visit your website to ask for the information.

Next, add a Tell-a-friend icon to your site. Its called viral marketing. One person tells two people, and they tell two people, and you know how that goes.

Good luck with your online presence.

Kathleen

Your site looks great, what did you do it on, Frontpage? There are lots of sites out there for free links suchs a homemarketeer.com etc. We have a section on our forum for FREE links with no reciprocal links required.
You may wnt to try some google advertising for directed traffic to your site.
http://americasdoorstep.com/phpbb/index.php