At least it’s different.
At least he’s made an attempt.
And the site itself — it’s actually pretty darn spankin’ good.
It could use a polish, but I betcha it works for him.
- Davison
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Not a bad website in terms of design. Except that all of the introductory Flash will prevent all of the search engines from indexing any of his pages. So it will be difficult for him to rank well on any keywords for his territory. If he gets rid of the Flash and updates the menu to include better text links and title tags, he will do better. Whoever designed his site needs to brush up on SEO friendly design.
For me, flash is usually, if not always, inappropriate unless you use it for presentation. I don't worry much about SEO because let's face it Andrew, it's a Realtor's website and unless our boy here is going throw big monthly bucks at optimization, he's better off, building a brand, marketing it locally, driving local traffic and wowing them with his personality.
My POV on flash is, once I see it, I need not see it again. Hence the big SKIP INTRO.
Again, not my cup of tea, but he's not looking for me. He's figured out his audience, he's speaking directly to them and that's what I ultimately believe in. Know thy audience and talk directly to them.
If you live in the country, and sell country, you better sing country
– I like it.
He should have first considered a proper IDX search first though.
Happy Holidays
I love it!
My late father was a radio guy before he entered real estate in the late 80's. A few years in, he had this cheesy country jingle produced which ran daily on a local station. His business went through the roof and people still bring it up to me. Just thought I'd let you know that you reconnected me with someone I miss.
He's your friendly Remax man
with the customer courtesy van.
Better call Bill
Bill Garvie
Better call Bill!
Just might be stuck in my head all day.
And isn't that what a good, targeted ad is supposed to do? Love it or hate it – when it becomes indelible, it's done its job.
His office is around the corner from mine and i've never seen his website! Awsome!
Its a great quick nifty intro, and it was designed by our team at http://www.121ltd.com.
As for SEO, who needs it when sponsor links work better.
Any questions or inquiries contact me at ryang@121ltd.com
Cheers
so who's designing the best real estate websites these days?
Independents. http://www.homeonthemap.com has a nice site. http://www.diversesolutions.com has a nice IDX.
Neither are clients of ours. We just admire their work.