About a month ago I wrote a blog called I need to build it so they will come.   I basically was at a cross roads in terms of building a new site and was not sure which way to turn.  I had looked at several options and was looking for direction.

I made the decision to purchase a new professional Point2Agent site.  I then found Active Rain member Kathleen Allardyce which I contracted with to design the home page of my new site and write 10 new pages.

I also wrote several new pages on my own at the advice of my friend Karen George.  Karen had written a post earlier in the year and strongly advised us to write as many good quality pages as possible to attract visitors and get the attention of the search engines.

My new site Search Idaho Homes was completed about 3 weeks ago.  Last week I hired my friend Don Robinson of Lead Home Designers to begin optimizing my new site by submitting it to the top 500,000 search engines on a regular schedule.

The result has been that my new site has already generated 13 new leads in those 3 weeks and they are starting to come in almost daily.  My site is also climbing the search engine ladders weekly. Without Active Rain and it's wonderful members I would still be fumbling around wondering what I should do.

To Active Rain, Kathleen, Don and my dear friend Karen......