Tuesday, September 30th, 2008In the movie “Field Of Dreams” Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears voices from his corn field saying “If you build it, they will come”. Kinsella thinks the voices mean for him to build a baseball diamond. So Kinsella plowed under a portion of his corn field, built a base ball diamond and waited for them to come.
If Kinsella were a Realtor instead of a corn farmer, his interpretation may have been to build a website instead. When it comes to the web, a lot of Realtors think just like Kinsella did at the beginning of Field of Dreams, they think just building a decent website is enough to attract clients and customers to it. “If you build it, they will come” they think.
They leave their web site traffic generation strategy to search engine hits alone. But in reality that won’t work. Realtors need to advertise their websites to make them successful. While search engine hits definitely are in the cards, getting a page one search engine ranking takes some effort.
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