All Forum Posts by: Sarah King

I just retested - very slow to connect to the server, but once connected it loaded as you'd expect. However once the page had loaded (IMO) I could see that the browser was still busy downloading - all the preloads, I guess.

I did a DNS check and everything kind of looked OK, a couple of things for you to check though

http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheck.aspx?domain=www.reitnc.com&detailed=1

Oh yes, I remember John Reed from a few years back.

It was a new term to me too but he uses it to describe those with questionable business practices.

His focus is on New Zealand and Australian companies and individuals rather than the US and he seems to enjoy his unofficial watchdog status.

I was wondering if he'd modelled himself on an American counterpart or if you had anyone in the US like him.

Neil Jenman is an Australian ex-realtor who makes his living training agents and warning against "spruikers" as well as running a general public education campaign on how to buy and sell your home.

He's highly entertaining and his filing cabinet must be full of legal threats that have been filed against him.

Who else is there doing this kind of thing?

Hi Riki

Welcome too... although I'm a bit of a lurker!

I've been out of touch with Dolf in the last few years but he's always been a mainlander!!! Wellington is not allowed to steal him!

So are you a Capital PIA member or a Wellington PIA member? It's funny that there's two - how do you choose which to belong to?

Sarah

shoot your developer!

It looks great... but behind the scenes you have javascript on the page (and before the html tag), you have stylesheet info on the page too. These should be in separate file so they can load more quickly and be cached.

It's incredibly slow to load...

Your logo looks a bit blurred - I'd recreate it from a high quality image and save it as jpg quality 3.

Other than that it's an "ok" joomla site. You have to balance up slick versus accessible. I don't like agents who look like they've gone too far on the design and forgotten their core business... but yours could, perhaps, do with some polish.

Search for FSBO websites or look though DMOZ's real estate section for FSBO sites.

the forum at realestatewebmasters dot com would be useful too, as would the forum at digitalpoint dot com (once you qualify you can promote it in the Freebies section).

Yours is the kind of tool that will take time to get going but will hopefully promote itself once you reach a "critical mass".

Oh, and a DMOZ listing wouldn't hurt either (submit and forget).

The best things to do are, infact, the safest.

Have clean html, use external stylesheets and javascript files. Use the metatags, the title the H tags as they are designed. Use your keywords throughout your text.

And... get sites to link to you! But they should be one way links, none of this nasty directory homepage badge stuff! And don't pay $ unless you believe the link will drive traffic as well as Search Engine respect. The more inbound links the better.