Realtor Web Design 101 - Tips for a site that works

In an ongoing desire to stay organized and present blog postings in an easy to find way I am putting together this main Table of Contents. I hope it helps you find what you are looking for as you design and improve your real estate agent web site. This page is the main index and each link below t...

I recent read an article on authority web sites and believe it applies to real estate agent web sites. The article basically claims that over time the successful larger commercial web sites will become more and more successful and the smaller sites will go by the wayside. The author was talking m...

Some of the best ways to improve your agent web site is to take the concepts another web designer has used and modify them to fit your site. Here are some sites to gleam ideas from:www.MSNBC.com - News sites have to manage a ton of content and usually employ many people to design around their con...

This is a component of real estate web design I don't understand very well. I am open to feedback.PromotionsI often see promotions on agent web sites and I am turned off by them. They offer $500 here or .5% there or other monetary rewards for selecting them as an agent. I have seen "use our movin...

According to Wikipedia Podcasting is,"A podcast is a media file that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers.[1] Like 'radio', it can mean both the content and the method of syndication. The latter may also be termed ...

There is a current push toward content feeds (learn about RSS). Your Google personal page or your Yahoo personal page or any other feed reader can store the feeds from different web sites, usually blogs. These feed readers read xml formats (i.e. RSS, Atom, etc.) and as new articles are added to t...

RSS commonly stands for "Really Simple Syndication". It refers to the ability to push data/information from one location (i.e. web site or blog) to another location (i.e. feed reader, site, blog). Wikipedia states it: "RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital...

Most users looking for a real estate web site are looking for real estate, meaning they want to see available homes and properties for sale. In most markets, the MLS is the best equipped tool to present users with what they are searching for. So, the question we often see, "how do I add the MLS t...

SEO is what they call a "natural" way to rise within search engines. Web site owners have to either spend the time to write content and find sites to link to them or pay someone to do it. The alternative is to focus on the site's lead conversion and then pay for your web site position using PPC o...

It's fun to watch all of the different real estate agent personalities here on Active|Rain. Some of us are assertive, some laid back. Some focus on localism information, some focus on information for other agents. Some are organized, some not-so-organized. Etc. From a client's perspective, we mus...