Hello All, I run http://statesrealty.us It is a Realtor Directory broken down by State and/or County. I am curious to hear how you would market such a site. So far I have only done a paid directory submission to 50 PR5-PR7 Directories. I have also tried advertising to a couple MySpace Real Estate groups without success, I was trying to get people from those groups to submit their free listing in hopes they would purchase a paid option. I am usually bouncing around ~30-50 Uniques a day but I would like to dramatically up that number. Does anyone know of a script that is similar to http://housingmaps.com I know its a long shot, but something like that would certainly help boost the site up, especially if I could tie the directory portion and the maps together. I was thinking of making a Realtor Details page for each realtor listing in the database, but that would be 31k + detail pages. I was thinking the pages could have extended information, like a picture and description of the Realtor that they would provide themselves. I was also looking into an email campaign, similar to the myspace one, since I have all of the email addresses of the Realtors in the database, do you think thats a good idea?
Well if you want free traffic from the search engines you will need to do some seo for your site. Here is the basic steps to optimiza your site. http://www.adollarlink.com/basic-search-engine-optimization.html
I have on page optimization pretty well wrapped up, I have 3 of the four steps outlined in your article, im still working on backlinks though.