Before you spend a fortune creating a Real Estate related website, take a moment to review this article. You can spend a ton of time and money on developing a really cool webpage with java, multimedia, sound files, images, video, and great content that is SEO optimized.
But did you know that some of the same people you would pay to do this for you have also created some sites that allow you to do it yourself… and do it for FREE? These are just a few of the sites I’d recommend reviewing before you start filling out that “Pay To The Order of” section in your checkbook.
Here’s 5 Cool Sites where you can start creating your website for FREE
Wix – Wix is a do-it-yourself website builder: a free online tool that lets you create and customize your own websites. Built with a powerful, user-friendly interface, Wix gives you total control over your web design without knowing the first thing about fancy coding or programming.
Weebly – Weebly is a San Francisco, California based company that was founded in 2006 with the mission to help people put their information online quickly and easily. We enable over 7 million people to easily create personal sites and blogs or establish web presences for businesses, weddings, classrooms, churches, artistic portfolios, and more.
Webstarts – A place where everyday people could create unique pages without knowing any code and without the harsh limitations of other website builders. WebStarts vision is to provide everything you need to build and maintain your very own website. Not just any website, but websites that you can quickly edit and change, allowing you to keep your content fresh and original.
Google Sites – The Google FREE website builder. Even with limited themes and capabilities, Google still provides a very friendly user interface which allows you to create and maintain some really cool websites and targeted webpages for your prospects and future business.
Yola - Yola is absolutely dedicated to helping you create a website quickly and effortlessly. They offer easy-to-use tools and website hosting in free and paid options. With Yola, you can easily create a free website in no time. You won’t need an advanced degree; if you can edit a document, you can build a free website.
The sites above are all free, easy to use, and they allow you to be creative and productive in a very limitless environment with the potential of making some pretty attractive, non-technical pages that can help you support, market, advertise and grow your online business. Look like the pros, and do it for less. Let us know what you think?
I have been wondering why agents buy websites and paying a $499 to $1500 set up fee followed by $29 – $99 per month before IDX fees. Sure, there are some really nice agent websites out there, but really – a simple website using Weebly (my 9 year old launched one in an hour … see http://www.alexandralund.com) should be just fine for most agents.
While I am on a rant, I guess that I should add that all of these sites are just fine for SEO, but not UBER fantastic at it. And it DOES NOT MATTER. I rarely see an agent website rank high in search, and even when I do, their bounce rates are in the 70s or 80s – so who cares.
Save the money – build a free site, and focus on using it as a client servicing tool rather than a lead generation tool. Life will be good.
Thanks for the confirmation Victor, your 9 year old just might have a career in website design for agents if they don’t find and read this post! lol~ Happy New Year~