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San Diego Real Estate · 04-20-2005, 08:49 AM

Ok members...

Please review our site www.SanDiego-House.com and feel free to give suggestions! We have made a lot of changes in the past couple of months!

Please offer comments!

SEOWolf · 04-21-2005, 01:42 PM

What can I say Al…
I Love it!!!

~VegasMack

neodemes · 04-21-2005, 06:45 PM

You have a top-notch site there, Al, Very professional.

There must be a lot of new pages? They don't seem to be indexed yet...well, perhaps that's the wrong choice of words, they may well be indexed, I haven't tested that out, but they aren't showing any Google page rank, yet.

One suggestion is to utilize all of the image Alt tags to contain keywords. It may not make a huge difference, but it can't hurt and will also provide some text for those browsing with Lynx or with graphics disabled.

Best of Success!

Anyone who would care to provide some feedback on REI Resource/Neodemesne, bring it on! I can take it.

San Diego Real Estate · 04-23-2005, 08:53 AM

Thank you neodemes...we have recently made a lot of changes and are continually making updates as needed...

any other suggestions?

All input is welcome form all!

sarahk · 04-23-2005, 03:52 PM

c'mon you should know better than to have this nonsense in your code

Code:

<p style="margin-left: 4px">
<font face="Arial" size="1" color="#C0C0C0">Call Al Rosson for your<br>
<span style="text-decoration: none">
<a style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: #C0C0C0" href="http://www.sandiego-house.com/">
<font size="1" color="#C0C0C0" face="Arial">San Diego</font><font size="1" color="#CCCCCC" face="Arial"> 
Real </font><font size="1" color="#C0C0C0" face="Arial">Estate</font></a></span><br>
needs TODAY!</font></p>

Your stylesheet should be handling all of this stuff

and javascript on the page? Move that off.

You don't protect your email address opening you up to floods of spam - as if we don't already get more than enough.

Why does the mls search move to a subdomain? That's splitting your impact and reducing the number of pages.

Can you save each search and put up a search engine friendly list of
* the last 10 searches
* the last 10 properties
* most popular searches

that drives the search engines down into your site increasing the number of pages.

I ran this search
http://mls.sandiego-house.com/result...Begin+Search++

and it's fair enough that that is ugly. Not much you can do there. But look at the results...
http://mls.sandiego-house.com/regist...proptype%3Dres

Oh, my, but you won't even let me see the property? Is that normal for mls listings? Don't you want to be the agent with the property? Hmm, wouldn't get away with that down here...

Sarah

San Diego Real Estate · 04-24-2005, 10:06 AM

Sarah...thanks for your input...We are always open to suggestions! In the US the common design for searching of homes to get high conversions is to either have a visitor sign in at the beginning (known as Vow) of entry or after viewing the thumbnails (known as Vow 2). Once they have signed in they can re visit as many times as they like and view in detail all the listing information and even enlarge the pictures and save searches and get Auto Updates of the Hottest New Listings!

Anyone else have any suggestions?

sarahk · 04-24-2005, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by San Diego Real Estate

In the US the common design for searching of homes to get high conversions is to either have a visitor sign in at the beginning (known as Vow) of entry or after viewing the thumbnails (known as Vow 2).

OK. But I'm viewing it from an SEO perspective not a realtor perspective and you have to balance the two.

I'd still go for the mod_rewrite to make the urls search engine friendly
I'd still list the recent search info to drive the search engines deep
If the user hasn't logged in I'd give a "teaser" page for the property - bigger photo, summary info - with the login info attached. That way google still sees the inflated number of pages and you still get "vow".

My family is based in Auckland, Sydney and London and we're all home owners. When we've been buying we've been able to email links back to our Mother so she can view the properties we've been looking at. In all cases the info on the sites has been open. The "teaser" page would allow them to have something to email to family and friends, even add to their blogs - after all you want to build their excitement!

Sarah

San Diego Real Estate · 04-24-2005, 03:02 PM

Great Point Sarah...

I appreciate your suggestions and we are continuously updating as needed! We will defintely utilize your suggestions as best we can! You are exactly right it is a even balance between SEO & the Customer!

Thanks again!

Any others suggestions out there?

Las Vegas Real Estate · 04-25-2005, 03:04 AM

I think it's a swell site, SD --- can't offer a thing in the way of suggestions on the technical side but I will admit to pangs of web envy! The layout and user-friendly format is great.

San Diego Real Estate · 04-25-2005, 07:40 AM

Thanks Las Vegas its a continual work in process....Just like the net always changing!