I've been working on improving my website and generating more leads and website hits for the past year. We all know that Real Estate is numbers game and that the more leads you get, the greater the possibility of you getting good/qualified leads that are ready to buy. I'm no pro at this, but so far it is working great. See my website stats below! In January of this year I started with 128 unique visitors to 1249 unique visitors last month! Hopefully these tips help:)

Here are a few tips to increase your website activity (that have worked for me).

• Add a blog to your website. ** According to everything I read, the blog is important..... but you need to post frequently in order to keep fresh content.
  
• Add relevant and useful content to your website. Information on your community, neighborhoods, schools, etc.
  
• Make sure that your website is a very important piece of all of your marketing material including business cards, property flyers, print ads, online ads, etc.
  
• Post your listings and ads on all the websites that you possibly can (especially if they are free!) including Trulia, Craigslist, Zillow and use vFlyer or Postlets to post on various other sites. **Don't forget to have you website as a link, so that users are directed to your website!
• Work on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which will cost money to do certain things, but you can do a lot of things that don't cost money or very little money. ** A few things to look at are inbound links, meta tag titles/keywords, content, etc.
• Add videos to your website.
  
• Make sure you have a site map (both html and xml).

***One other thing I'd like to mention is I now use 1parkplace, which makes people register in order to view properties. I use to hate that idea, but now that I have it.... I swear by it. I went from maybe a couple leads a month to at least a couple leads a day.

Do you have any additional tips??? Please comment!

Monthly history

Jan 2008 Feb 2008 Mar 2008 Apr 2008 May 2008 Jun 2008 Jul 2008 Aug 2008 Sep 2008 Oct 2008 Nov 2008 Dec 2008   Month Unique visitors Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth Jan 2008 128 203 828 7487 161.44 MB Feb 2008 167 264 1259 9858 155.08 MB Mar 2008 219 323 1738 11857 180.11 MB Apr 2008 294 394 1528 14531 315.39 MB May 2008 587 865 3066 35818 663.15 MB Jun 2008 739 1066 3708 41208 616.99 MB Jul 2008 1249 1670 4251 47337 486.77 MB Aug 2008 798 1080 3153 33549 253.27 MB Sep 2008 0 0 0 0 0 Oct 2008 0 0 0 0 0 Nov 2008 0 0 0 0 0 Dec 2008 0 0 0 0 0 Total 4181 5865 19531 201645 2.77 GB