Finalist for “Best Real Estate Blog in Texas”

Thanks for your support guys. She has gotten several votes from here. Any feedback on the site?

The blog looks really good. I like the arrows for the buyer/seller and the website looks really professional. The load time is very slow though I put it through https://analyze.websiteoptimization.com and it would not work “Your request returned no data. Please check your url and try again” However, I think it might be your server?

When I clicked on the link it was just slow though but took a minute or two to show up.

Looks good though & good luck!

My server is acting slow today. That is usually not a problem. I cannot get the analyze website to take either.

Thanks for the feedback. She has been doing this for only 9 months (selling real estate) and has had phenomenal success because of the site. Most real estate agents are on the internet, but most of them are bad at it. a little wordpress magic and she is easily found.

found the slow down problem. It was a plugin causing the problem. disabled it, back up to speed.

Hey guys, thanks for voting. She won the contest for the “Best Real Estate Blog in Texas”!

Matt,

I love your wife’s site! Great job! I am very interested in how you did this for her. I have a website of my own but over the past couple weeks have been seriously considering making my own website from WordPress. I would appreciate any help you could give. The site she has is impressive, interactive, smooth, and flashy. I found myself on the site for well over ten mintes.

Thanks for the complements on the site. It is working extremely well for her. I am not a web guy. I am actually an investment banker that started building a couple of sites for non-profits. I found wordpress to be extremely adaptable to almost any situation.

When she first started selling real estate, we tried to think of what could set her apart from her competition in a tough market. we decided that she had to become very good at technology and its application to real estate. Against the advise of all of her peers, we built her own site.

Thinking through what she wanted to showcase on her site, she needed static pages (for general buying and selling info) and a blog /news/listings sections. WordPress out of the box is designed to display all posts in chronological order, but it can be manipulated to show one category at a time. Thats what you see; news is the news category archive, blog is the blog archive, featured listings is the listings archive, etc.

I started with an existing theme and started manipulating it. it is unrecognizable from where it started. send me a direct email and i would be happy to talk to you about it.

Matt
Matt(at)mattregister(dot)com

Matt,

My email is tom dot hernandez at century21 dot com. Thanks for the help!

Hello Matt,

about the design. I think its a great job what you did but the design is not really professional.

-its to full with different sizes, to many colors, no quietness
-to much advertising

positive:
-the iphone app. Very good.

Yours,
Tony

You have a good looking site built Matt! I’m impressed!

Thank you for your sharing.!

Thanks again for the feedback guys. Tony, you are absolutely right, the design is somewhat less than professional. It was not designed by a professional. I am not a graphic artist. I see what you mean but not sure exactly how to go about fixing that.

griffenjt and unutulmaz, glad you like it. this site has made a tremendous impact on her business. In the last couple of months (in a horrible real estate market) she has moved from an individual agent, to hiring agents under her and becoming a team. It makes all of the difference in the world when you are findable online and the phone rings from people finding her.

one of the interesting things is how we have been able to use rss feeds to increase the reach of her site. when she publishes a post on her site, it automatically sends a teaser posted to 4 different real estate blogs (trullia, houston association of realtors, active rain, etc) with the custom footer plugin marking where the post came from. It also automatically published to her twitter account. her twitter account automatically updates her linkedin status and her facebook page. It updates the social networking status of all of her employees (3 so far).

Awesome Site Matt, Good luck in the comptetition. Hope You win!

Thanks fastpara. This is a relatively old post. She won it in August. She has had tremendous success since then. The majority of her business comes from this site.

hey matt, i am currently working on a real estate site myself and its my first one. if you don’t mind me asking who did you use for your mls listings?