Web Design

Calling Out Bad Realtor Websites

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One of my very early posts on this blog was about how bad realtor websites are. I wrote that post almost 2 years ago, yet there are still realtors putting up with less than awesome sites. I was discussing the sad state of realtor websites on Twitter with a couple of friends when @vowconnect asks [...]

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Latent Semantic Indexing

Sometimes when you are trying to explain a simple idea, people zone out because they think they already know it all. That’s when you whip out a phrase like Latent Semantic Indexing. It’s a great phrase because it sounds like a super complicated scientific method for… well, something. In reality, it’s sort of what good [...]

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Speeding Up Your Site

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I’ve written about the Yahoo and Google tools available for helping you find ways to speed up your site. There are lots of good suggestions that are easy to understand, but there’s one that isn’t so well known. If you are getting an warning about The following resources are missing a cache expiration, here’s what [...]

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Newspaper Pay Wall Alternatives

Newspaper Pay Wall Alternative

Newspaper website paywalls are a bad idea, here’s a better idea. Reward your readers rather than punishing them.

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Why You Need A Great Call To Action

If your site isn’t converting like you think it should be, try looking at your call to action.

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Google Page Speed Bitch Slaps YSlow

Google’s Page Speed is a fantastic app that should be in every developers toolbox. Until today, we had to rely on Yahoo’s YSlow to try to make better decisions about how to optimize our pages. YSlow was good when it was our only option, but now compared to Page Speed it just looks like a half-finished firebug addon.

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Get More Visitors From Google & Yahoo Search

What percentage of your visits are coming from search queries? Would you like more? When they find you, do they bounce away just as quickly?

If you want more people to find your site via search engines, you have to do a better job packaging your content. If you want them to stay, you need to make sure the important stuff is “front-loaded”.

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