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What is the best web host for your Real Estate site?

I may be showing my lack of being willing to change. But I have had this web page up for quite awhile. www.kennimmo.com and haven't really had many leads generated. Most of the traffic has been directed by my personal direct or advertising. I was wondering if any of you have had a hosting company that works for you? I get all kinds of offers but never any real recommendations. Looking around at so many gets old. Who do you go with? What is a reasonable fee for their services? Do many hosting companies actually drive traffic to your site?

I am at a loss, can you help?

Posted by Ken Nimmo on 02/18/2008 06:46 AM

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12 Comments on What is the best web host for your Real Estate site?

FEB

2008

I use Bluerazor, I don't know if that helps. $9.95 per year.

I use Go Daddy. They are very easy to work with. They have a great support team. Their customer service is easy to get through to. You don't have to press 1 for English and are talking to someone who is in America. I'm not very good with the computer and they are very helpful to someone not knowledgeable in the field.

I use homes.com and when I search in my area for homes with google,yahoo,msn. homes.com is always on the first page. I have had a good response with them and right now show over 3000 visitors to my website since October.

I use godaddy.com....then it links it back to my Coldwell Banker space.

It's more than the host - it's the site itself.

First thing, I would get rid of the voice. That is very annoying. Make it clickable; if I want to listen to you chatter, then I'll click "Listen to Audio." I looked at your site for about 5 seconds before I wanted to click out....people generally do NOT like music and talking automatically playing. In my case, I surf a lot at night with the laptop in bed, and music disturbs my husband. Others surf at work in cubicle situations and disturb those around them. Or I could already be listening to a CD or my iPod or any number of things which will give an audible clash.

Then optimize, optimize, optimize. Read other blogs on here about SEO. If it's a template site on some place like iHouse or Point2Agent you may have a more difficult time with search engine optimization.

Looked at your site . It is very nice . You probably need some type of optimization and get rid of the voice. If people are surfing at work the voice is a big no no

Wow I will get rid of the voice.

Smile

My site is hosted by Siteground, and they did guide me through some things to help drive traffic to my site, but I would echo Karen's advice above. In the end, we are responsible for our own site's visibility, so SEO is the key.

I am very sorry to have sounded so snotty. I didn't have my coffee yet this morning... =(

But seriously - the voice doesn't help. =)

FEB

2008

Karen,

You by far weren't the only one. Didn't sound snotty to me.

Smile

P.S. It is gone...

Trust me, I did FEEL snotty when I typed it. LOL!!! I didn't WANT TO SOUND IT but I FELT IT. That early morning "What the heck am I doing out of bed" feeling...

FEB

2008

I'm with Gary on this one. I have used godaddy.com for years and they have been easy to work with. The part I like is that they call you after you have set up the site and make sure everything is working ok and if you have any questions....that's when I ask away and get results. So far they have been great and economical.

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