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A slick website with all kinds of cool features is an essential part of today’s marketing strategy, but as large business continues to grow, keeping pace with all the technology and finding other creative avenues to drive more customers is critical if you hope to compete.
WordPress has become a popular and affordable alternative for real estate agents to use when first starting a website or industry blog. While numerous web development companies that specialize in building real estate websites are available to consumers, opting for a simple, easy-to-use WordPress site that gives agents total control is something that many find to be a viable option when first jumping into marketing themselves online.
By now you have most likely heard of Houzz.com, the wildly popular, collaborative online platform for home remodeling and designing, “bringing homeowners and home professionals together in a uniquely visual community.” But have you considered how useful Houzz could be for the REALTOR community?
Let’s face it, when it comes to the appearance and overall feel of your real estate website, having the right photos can make or break a user’s experience. Depending on where you live or the real estate market in which you do business, finding attractive, professional photographs and images shouldn’t be too difficult.
Your real estate website’s homepage is critical for keeping traffic on the site and increasing the odds of converting that traffic into actual homebuyers. Along with dictating the flow of the site, a homepage’s main purpose is to give you an introduction to what your website is about as a whole, and of course to make a positive first impression on users who reach your page.
Social media can be used for virtually any purpose, from simple interactions with friends and family, to learning, seeking advice, planning a holiday, losing weight, and so much more. An infographic by Homes.com and ForRent.com, shows just How to Use Social Media to Find a College Roommate. Social media can help you a suitable roommate, provided that […]
When building a real estate website, including things like content, photos, and even videos is of course the bare essentials if you really want to drive traffic and keep home buyers on your site. But what else can you do to dress up your site and provide for an even better user experience that will not only keep home buyers on your site for the time being, but keep them coming back down the road?
Poplar recently launched an online network for the green building professional community. It is the company’s mission to connect to green building professionals around the globe, to deliver the highest quality green building education, and to help its members recognize new job opportunities.
Nearly every website or webpage on the internet today gives users the ability to share its content, photos or videos on social media websites. But if you’re like me, perhaps you’ve always been curious about what some of these sites are and who exactly uses each one. Most of us waste enough time on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest as it is, so who really has the time to update even just a few more social media sites, let alone a few dozen?
Domain clustering is generally referring to multiple search results yielding the same domain, which can often result in poor search quality, especially if that domain is a bad website. In the real estate world, we most often see domain clustering from the heavy hitters in the industry like Trulia, Zillow, and Realtor.com.
