Real Estate Website Design Blog

I often read post on Active Rain about people achieving top ranking for Google or Yahoo. And if you think about it, it’s actually quite an accomplishment! After all, with some keyphrases, your page is competing against sometimes millions of other pages. Do you realize what this means? If you are ...

I started thinking about this the last night and thought I would throw this out here to get other people’s opinion. Could too many comments devalue your post in the eyes of Google? Think about it for a second. Google’s Webmaster Guidelines clearly states "Keep the links on a given page to a reaso...

After playing around with Microsoft’s Surface, I couldn’t get their photo viewing application out of my head. I love the fact that you can move photos around as if they were on a table top. It got me thinking if this same concept could be delivered online. So last night I started playing around w...

A few weeks ago Jeff Turner wrote about the new Microsoft Surface. I have been following this technology since it came out on TED last year. About a month ago, finally had a chance to play around with Microsoft’s new Surface during a demo in New York. Not Everything You See On the Internet Is Tr...

At least, that’s what the statistics say. Studies show that only 16% of people actually read websites and blogs word-by-word. The rest of us simply “scan” websites. With this in mind, it’s important to do anything and everything to keep your reader engaged in your blog and/or website. You’re only...

We all know that link exchanges are a thing of the past. Google sees right though all the proverbial “back scratching” links. The fact that they were so exploited lost almost all of their value. But with today’s Real Estate Agent using many different websites in their online presence, it just may...

Think about this, Google accounts for over 1/2 of all searches conducted in the United States! Because of their huge market share, even small changes to Google’s ranking systems have put multi-million dollar companies, such as BMW, in Google's Blacklist (although to be fair, BMW was not playing ...

Every now and then, real estate agents need to take a step back and objectively look at their website. One of the biggest challenges in doing so is knowing exactly what to look for. With this in mind, I have created a checklist that breaks down important components of your website. I suggest you ...

It seems like every day you read a different opinion on Duplicate Content. "Don't do it! Your site will get banned!" some people say. I would always get hammered with criticism when I would chime in and tell them that it's simply not true and that most people don't need to worry about duplicate c...

I thought I would share a Quick Tip. I am sure we have all been there before. You found a really good post with lots of links. Sometimes they open in a new window and other times they don't. Through all the opening and closing of new links, it's easy to accidentally close the window that containe...