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Brad's Last Month In Review

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Monterey Web Design

Okay. I think I am getting addicted to blogging again.

 

Here is my last month of work in review and also a list of upcoming projects.


Month In Review

- Brads Web Designs

I completed my new web design portfolio and website. This was a complete rebranding of my business and has new (and completely reduced) prices.

- Carmel Real Estate

Some minor SEO work and page updates on Carmel Real Estate.

- Pebble Beach Real Estate

A new website that I launched yesterday. I am proud to announce that its already ranking well on Google. The terms that it currently ranks for are:

#1 Quail lodge carmel real estate
#1 Pebble Beach Quail Lodge Real Estate
#2 Quail Lodge Condo
#3 quail lodge home search
#11 Quail Lodge Real Estate
#10 Quail Lodge Home
#8 carmel meadows home search
#8 pebble beach land search
#7 carmel highlands land search
#7 carmel highlands homes

- Monterey Real Estate

Complete revamp of seo work. More work to come on this site. Its currently recieving over 300 visitors a month, over 50% of which are coming from the search engines. I am expecting to double this in the next couple of months. Trying to reach the 1000 visitor mark.


Upcoming Projects

I have another non-real estate related site that I am currently working on. I also have some work to do on my site over at Monterey Water Colors.

 

I am still trying to find my next real estate project. Still offering 50% off to the next agent through AR...

I will also do some free SEO work on it if you contact me before the end of the month. (I told you all I am trying to stay busy) :)

 

Comments (2)

Nyles Courchesne
Peskin, Courchesne and Allen, P.C. - Springfield, MA
Massachusetts Real Estate Attorney

Congratulations on geting all of that work done.  I am interested in learning how to take control of my website - I have a small law office in Springfield, Massachusetts.  There are a lot of attorneys and most of the larger offices are paying for super web sites.  I do not know how to keep up.  I am very interested in revving up my web site, but it seems really time consuming.  Do I need to take a class - how would you reccomend that I get started.  I just think that I could out-do my competition if I set up separate sites for eacj of the lawysers in my form that focused on their one specialty and we added content all the time. . .   What do you think?

Mar 10, 2009 02:30 PM
Bradly Bernier
Monterey Web Design - Monterey, CA

Nyles,  

Thanks for the comment. 

Web design, seo and general maintenance IS time consuming if you don't know what you are doing. Your first site is always the longest and hardest to create. There are quite a few options that you have. I am a little hesitant to give you any real suggestions since I don't really know the whole scope of what you are trying to do. 

Something that I think might help you is an article I wrote a while back called Dynamic Websites. In this blog post I write about the solution that I use for real estate sites (I kinda gave away my secrets... *sigh*). It is a conjunction of a few different open-source softwares but the one that I think you should look into is Joomla. This is what I use on almost every one of my sites and is relatively easy to maintain and create. The hardest part is to design the site since you do need to know HTML and CSS. (And if you are interested I can always help design a custom template that you could use on multiple sites).

Now about the many different sites. I think that it is a great idea for each of the lawyers to have their own site. Its even a better idea for you to provide that as a service to them. However, you should have a company website that is competitive in quality information as well as on the search engines. 

If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Don't hesitate to shoot me an email.

Mar 10, 2009 03:16 PM