Hi All,

I am new to this forum, I've been in the insurance industry for about 5 years. I recently made a move to an independent agency.

A large part of my marketing strategy uses websites. I am curious how successful agents on this forum are marketing their websites. Are you only focusing google organic search? pay per click campaigns? including the site in mailers? sending to email lists? Has any one of these strategies produced better results than others?

I am writing commercial P&C mostly. I have found that most of the agents I meet don't put a lot of value on a website, but it's good to see a lot of users on this forum feel differently.

I am mainly looking for ideas on how to start driving people to my sites.

Thanks for any and all input and thanks for having me on the forums.

Who would you guys recommend for email? SHould I just get is from Godaddy? I got the domain names from them (not that it matters). Does it make a difference on the email providers? Sorry in advance if the question is stupid, I am very new to owning a website.

Hello...

I'm professional web programmer with about 12 years of experience. Last 5 years I work as system architect in a leads generation company in another than insurance market. Knowing lead generation from the inside I decided to start my company for generating insurance leads and found out that no one in the insurance industry offers XML API integrations. Can someone tell me if it is true, or just my insufficient effort?

Re forum commitment. You can ask me different/any questions regarding web development. If my experience covers the area of your problem, I will be more than happy to help you.

I have no dog in the fight.

Recently started using Grow and Organize Your Small Business - Free Contact Buttons and Forms | ContactMe.com and have been very satisfied with what I can do. The big thing for me is being able to attach emails and documents to each file.

It is in the Beta trial now, but I believe they will start to charge around $9 a month.

Can anyone recommend a company that specializes in SEO? Also, what is the average monthly cost involved? How many key words do you recommend, 5, 10, 20? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.