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My New Website: "Southwest Real Estate" - Re-Invented By A Fellow Active Rainer - "Dave Keys"

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Realty Works Temecula BRE No: 01233850

Breaking free, of the mold of a "Template Website", has been something I have wanted to do for a very long time.  Template websites, such as Advanced Access are easy to manipulate and update without having to learn HTML or all of other technological stuff.  However, they are limiting and some say they inhibit "Google juice".  

I know there are many wonderful website developers here on Active Rain.  However, I wanted someone local so I could have a one on one discussion about how I wanted my site to look. 

After doing a quick search I found Dave Keys, Active Rainer right here in the Temecula area.  Dave is owner of Solutions by Dave, and is a great guy.  He is a tech savvy dude, family man, real estate blog and SEO expert, photographer, all rolled into one. 

Because Dave is extremely busy designing sites for all different kinds of professionals and companies.  You won't see him on Active Rain much.  He is in demand and I am grateful for the opportunity to have him make my website into a "Custom Site".

Dave and I sat down at my office, last January and started a plan to completely overhaul my old website. 

It is probably 90% finished but I had him transfer the servers yesterday anyway.  My new site is 200% better at 90% completion than my old site was.

He is adding some pages and fixing a couple of links, next week

But today......he is probably enjoying his brand new Baby Granddaughter that was just born yesterday "Congratulations Dave, you proud granddaddy". 

Many thanks for working through the completion of my new site! 

Introducing:    www.soreal.biz !

Comments (6)

Lanre-"THE REAL ESTATE FARMER" Folayan
Samson Properties - Bowie, MD
I don't make promises.I deliver results.SOLD HOMES

Jane Grant - Southwest Riverside County - Temecula Wine Country and Custom Homes-Congratulations on your new website Jane. I agree with you 100%. Someone even told me that Google does not rank websites that high because they have the same templates. Thats why I want to get a blog site with wordpress. Or just update your outside Active Rain blog. Hope your website bring you many leads that will lead to closings. Have a great weekend. Great post.

Mar 28, 2009 11:44 AM
Mesa, Arizona Real Estate Mesa Arizona Realtor
Homes Arizona Real Estate LLC - Mesa, AZ
AzLadyInRed

Jane, congrats on your new website. They are so much fun - though can be costly and time consuming. Most of those that design websites always quote less money and time than it will take...but I love mine. Now I'm working on getting my WordPress blog ranked higher...;-)

Pepper

Mar 28, 2009 02:37 PM
Randy Hooker
Dreamcatcher Realty / Greater Phoenix Area - Gilbert, AZ
Gilbert, Chandler, Mesa, Queen Creek

Way to go, Jane!  Those types of projects can be immense labors of love, so here's to great SEO and mucho grande clients from your new site!   :)

Mar 28, 2009 04:50 PM
Sidney Kutchuk - Realty Works Temecula Kutchuk - Realty Works Temecula
Realty Works Temecula - Temecula, CA
Realty Works Temecula

Lanre- Thank you very much!

Teri- My Advanced Access site was up for renewal and was going to cost me $499.00 for another year.  This custom site is really not that much more and there is not a renewal fee.  Just for Bluehost which is about $70.00 per year. 

Randy- Thanks, interesting that you used the spanish, (My son just got his first job at a mexican restaurant here as a bus boy!)  So we are all speaking spanish around here!

Mar 29, 2009 05:00 AM
Not a real person
San Diego, CA

I'll have to go check out your new site. I would say that in Spanish for y'all's benefit, but the only Spanish I know is

  • Cerveza, por favor!
  • Dos Equis, por favor!
  • Corona, por favor!
  • Margarita, por favor!
Apr 04, 2009 02:53 AM
Jennifer Dazet
KELLER WILLIAMS BATON ROUGE - Baton Rouge, LA
Baton Rouge Real Estate

Great Information and the site setup is great!

May 15, 2009 04:56 PM