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MD Tattoo Studio – Before and After

By Website Design, Wordpress

We are thrilled with how this new website turned out for MD Tattoo Studio located in Los Angeles, CA. The principal, Mike DeVries saw one our website designs for Meche Salon, also in Los Angeles and he knew it would be perfect for his business! See below for an image of the home page. It is much cooler live!

Since 2008, MD Tattoo Studio has been known as not only one of the best tattoo shops in Los Angeles, but as a global leader in the tattoo world. Located in Northridge, California, Mike and his team are professionals who are passionate about providing an excellent tattoo experience for each and every client that comes into the shop. MD Tattoo Studio takes pride in having a team of hand-selected, top-tier, diverse artists who can create quality tattoos in a comfortable tattoo shop atmosphere. Most days you can find owner Mike DeVries on the floor, working alongside the shop team. At MD Tattoo Studio, we want your experience in the shop to be remembered forever, in the same way that you reminisce about your inked treasures. If you’re seeking a new tattoo, you’ve come to the right place!

 

 

 

Alberta Realty Link – Province Wide Website for Alberta

By Website Design, Wordpress

This website has a page for every city, town, village and county in Alberta. A total of 798 pages. We used the WordPress CMS and we have integrated the MyRealPage IDX feed. As Alberta has gone to one real estate board this site is the first to capitalize on the change.

It is a simple concept where the visitor chooses if they want to look at all MLS listings in Southern, Central or Northern Alberta.

Click here to view the website.

Unique Menu Design For WordPress Websites

By Website Design

If you have a lot of pages with long drop-down menus, there is a better way to display them. Bonnie Looby’s website has 64 lake pages, 18 Community pages and 23 price range pages. With our new menu design, all 105 pages are on one easy to read menu. This menu is accessed by Clicking on Search The MLS.

 

 

How to Optimize Real Estate Web Pages for SEO and Improve Rankings in Google

By SEO, Website Design

There is a great post on Wordtracker.com about optimizing web pages. This is a recap, but I recommend reading the post.

Make your URLs read well

Your URL should be readable to a human and make sense. It doesn’t need to be perfect English, but at a glance the content that you would expect to see on the page should be clear. A good test is to see if your URL reflects your page title.

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Innovative New Buyer-Centric Website For Ottawahomes.com

By Prospecting, Realtor Marketing, Responsive Websites, Website Design, Wordpress

I have visited thousands of website in the last 18 years and I think is the first buyer-centric website, at least in Canada. Yes, a website designed to attract buyers. If this is the only website targeting buyers there is little or no competition. As Realtors® you know the pros and cons of working with sellers and buyers and there are fewer Realtors® wanting to work with buyers than sellers, but the Walker Ottawa team see things a bit differently. Click here to view the live website.

The concept was to make it as easy as possible for a buyer to drill down to the home, condo or townhouse of their dreams.

On the Home Page you have three choices. Are you looking for a house, townhouses or condo? That’s it!

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Responsive Websites for Realtors – Does Your Website Need Updating?

By Mobile Websites, Responsive Websites, Website Design, Wordpress

On April 21, 2015 Google went public with a change to their algorithm that sent website users into a panic. As of this date, it was reported mobile-friendly websites would rank better than non-mobile optimized websites.

According to MOZ a leading source of Google algorithm information “In a rare move, Google pre-announced an algorithm update, telling us that mobile rankings would differ for mobile-friendly sites starting on April 21st. ”

Mobile-first indexing means Google predominantly uses the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking. Since the majority of users now access Google Search with a mobile device, Googlebot primarily crawls and indexes pages with the smartphone agent going forward. If your website is one of the original looks or the “Kuni 920 widescreen” template (see below for examples) your search rankings are being negatively affected. The solution is to update to a mobile-ready responsive template.

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