Welcoming Visitors to Your Site and Keeping Them There

What do you think about that, eh?  Pretty neat?

Getting people to visit your site often means very little.  You've got to "wow" them.  Oftentimes- and this is unfortunate- web surfers go from page to page to page, until they find one that strikes them as "professional" enough.  Really,  I don't know what people are looking for exactly...but I do know that once they arrive at my site, I want them to feel welcome and be impressed.

Now, don't you think that the welcome mat above would get your visitor's attention?  If people visited your real estate site and they saw a welcome mat that showed their current city and state, don't you think they might want to stick around?

[ Disclaimer:  If you are reading this from a work computer, there is a possibility that the city and MAYBE even the state is incorrect.  This is because corporate offices often go through a "proxy server" to protect it's machines from viruses.  If your office is using a proxy server, you may see the wrong city and state above. ]

As my regular readers know, I've been feeling a little under the weather lately, but before I became sick a few months back, I was working on a new site called GeoZoodle.  You don't have to visit GeoZoodle, because there is nothing there right now.  However, I intend on making several free "widgets" such as the welcome mat above.  Maybe something to put in the column alongside your blog?  Over there? ------------>

I would like to know what ActiveRainers think about this.

Imagine a picture of your face, with a "talk" bubble coming out.

It could show the Realtor (on his or her website) welcoming visitors from cities...

I could write some custom code for individual Realtors (mortgage companies, whatever) that pertained to your specific business...

Let's say I did this for a Colorado real estate company.  We could do something like this:

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If the visitor is from Colorado, then display,

Welcome to our friends from CITY, Colorado!

If the visitor is from any other state, then display,

Thinking of relocating from VISITOR'S_STATE ?  We are your Colorado Relocation Experts!

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Do you see what I mean?  The best type of marketing is "target marketing"-- no matter if you use television, print, radio, or the internet.  Stay tuned for more on this target-marketing concept.  Please feel free to leave suggestions and comments.  I will consider all comments and hopefully build something that every ActiveRainer can use.