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Why Adding Video to Your Website is Crucial for Success in 2010

Why Adding Video to Your Website is Crucial for Success in 2010

If you’re looking for ways to improve your website this year but don’t want to spend a lot of time or money, consider adding videos and other multimedia instead of updating your content or changing your layout. With internet speeds always increasing, most users are eager to engage with multimedia like audio and video. [...]

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Monday Q&A: What is a “One Click WordPress Install”? [Video]

Monday Q&A: What is a “One Click WordPress Install”? [Video]

We’re pretty big fans of WordPress around here. It’s such an easy to use, free content management system for your website with a plug-in system that lets you add totally new functionality to your site within minutes.
Question:
“What is a “One Click WordPress Install”?”
Answer:
Part of what makes WordPress so popular is its famous “one click install” [...]

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Link Love: Building Links to Your Site

Link Love: Building Links to Your Site

Links are the money of the web. They help create great rankings, status, and traffic for our website. But Google doesn’t like when you spend money to buy links and manipulate the search results. While I think manipulate is a harsh word, as all we’re trying to do is give our site visibility, the search [...]

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Site Building 101: Selecting a Real Estate Search Vendor

Site Building 101: Selecting a Real Estate Search Vendor

This article is part four of a five part series on building a real estate website with WordPress. You can view the rest of the series by visiting our guide at the bottom of this post.
You have one goal when building your real estate site: to generate leads. Converting web visitors into leads is the [...]

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Site Building 101: Designing Your Website

Site Building 101: Designing Your Website

This article is part three of a five part series on building a real estate website with WordPress. You can view the rest of the series by visiting the guide at the bottom of this post.
The design process is the most exciting part about building a new website. Whether you go with a free, premium [...]

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Site Building 101: Choosing a Domain and Web Hosting

Site Building 101: Choosing a Domain and Web Hosting

This article is part two of a five part series on building a real estate website with WordPress. You can view the rest of the series by visiting the guide at the bottom of this post.
Today we’re going to touch on the two most important parts of a website: its domain name (i.e. www.yoursite.com) and [...]

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Monday Q&A: How Much Does It Cost To Build a Real Estate Site With WordPress?

Monday Q&A: How Much Does It Cost To Build a Real Estate Site With WordPress?

Today’s Q&A launches our first post series: Site Building 101. The five part series (including this article) runs through the basics of building a site using WordPress including choosing a domain name and web hosting, designing your website, selecting a great real estate search vendor and creating an email drip campaign.
Question:
“How much does it cost [...]

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Monday Q&A: What Is A Premium WordPress Theme?

Monday Q&A: What Is A Premium WordPress Theme?

The popularity of WordPress spawned a significant number of free website designs, also known as themes, over the past couple of years. Because the designs were free they were also used heavily throughout the community which created a sort of design monotony among WordPress sites. The lack of technical support coupled with infrequent bug fixes [...]

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Monday Q&A: What’s The Difference Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org Sites?

Monday Q&A: What’s The Difference Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org Sites?

Every Monday we host a Q&A session where you can get your most pressing real estate tech/marketing questions answered. Questions for our next Monday Q&A can be sent to us via Twitter or by submitting a question in the comment box at the bottom of this post.
Question:

What’s the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org sites?
Answer:
Most [...]

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