They provide great material in how to help your page make its way up the search engines with regards to SEO.

LOLYou need a website with IDX, you need to blog, you need to constantly work on SEO, you need to post ads on the top sites.Do not spend any money until you research with other agents if the product works or is worth it.

There are really numerous ways to generate traffic to your site, both paid and free.The most fundamental traffic sources that everyone at least seems to have head of is SEO and PPC.

I know people who use Effortless Rental and like what they do.

And of course, "direct ownership" of real estate is never a totally effortless ride.  

These sites do very little though to help promote me personally.I decided that most individuals initially  use Zillow, Trulia, Redfin. etc to search for property information, so those sites will always be first for SEO but if I can try to be brand specific for my area on having good RE information & content, hopefully they will start to come to my site for my blog, etc and then I can capture them.  

(i.e. a good website with SEO).

.$15That's it dude...i mean you can do SEO website stuff too, or pay one of the guys on BP who have postcard services to do it for you, as it gets old QUICK.I now pay a lady from oDesk $4/hr to do my research for my list and mail merge list to Word, so all i gotta do is print, sign, stuff and mail.if you do those #$@&** yellow letters by hand you will hate life.

Any recommendations for a good core website that will come optimized (SEO)?

COOL - Cool is contagious2.)EFFECTIVE - No one would have heard of TiVo if it didn't effortlessly record the television shows you wanted.3.)DISTINCTIVE - A contagious name is easy to notice and adverises itself4.)DISRUPTIVE - Contagious names are disruptive.