Hi Everyone,

I am currently studying to take the exam to be an agent. Hopefully I should be done in a matter of couple weeks. I have been working very hard to create a informative web site so it is ready as soon as I get my license.

Since I am new to this business and do not know any agents, I figured you could give me some suggestions.

Here is my soon to go live web site:
www.AgentNadia.com

Please let me know if I am missing or need something obvious that I havent thought about. I will put IDX but cant get that until I get my license.

Well, you should know the name of the Broker under whom you intend to hang your License.
The name of your Broker is missing. And he/she will probably need to approve what you have on this Site as well. That will probably become more clear as you prepare to pass your Pennsylvania Real Estate Examination.

I would not call a comparative market analysis an "appraisal." You'll have all the local appraisers mad at you. And in truth, you are not providing one.

Nadia, are you joining PruFoxandRoach? I ask since that's one of the email address you provide.

I actually kind of like your site. The colors are easy on the eyes, the quick search is placed prominently on the page and the layout is simple enough to easily navigate. I have a couple of issues with the meta title tags, but hopefully you'll have those worked out when you fully launch your site.

Just post an update when it's fully live (with IDX) and we'll be able to give you more thorough feedback.

I just checked out your site. It looked very good. I would suggest you retitle your article: "Buy a house to save money because rent sucks"

I find the use of the word "sucks" unprofessional.

I did changed the title of the article.

I also wanted to know what kind of issues you see with the metatags so I can fix those as well.

It looks like the site structure is there, but the content is completely populated yet... there are a ton of placeholder text items. You should probably build out the content and then re-ask people to have a look at it, since it's difficult to picture the final state of the site without it there.

Nadia, read Jase's comment above. For the time being, if I was in your shoes I would be creating content on the areas on which I'd like to specialize (whether that is districts, communities, condos). And when your site is fully live (with content, search capabilities, etc.), we can revisit the issue and offer more insightful advice.

Well it has been about 6 months and I am steadily going up in Google and other search engine rankings. I am on 2nd or 3rd page in google for real estate related searches in my area and 1st on Yahoo :)

My SEO efforts are starting to pay off.

www.AgentNadia.com

Glad to hear that, Nadia. How is your conversion rate?

Nadia, Pretty nice site! You mention SEO...What are you doing to move your site up the rankings? Thanks.

an old post but I was just curious what "pre-packaged" theme are you using (I'm new to this blogging game so I might be using the wrong term)?

You have a nice website, it looks professionally done.

I totally agree with Steely Dan.
The website looks really awesome. Glad to here that you have a good ranking in search engine.

I think the site looks great. I pulled it up on Google and saw a PR of 2. I was just curious how you could improve that.

Hate to say this but your site seems way to cluttered, to many elements in very bright colors competing for the visitor's attention. You need to focus on one or maybe two elements at most - if your focus is on rentals make that big, if it's reos make that stand out. Else you might run the risk in getting your visitors confused and not getting them take the action you most want them to do...

[quote=Insider]I think the site looks great. I pulled it up on Google and saw a PR of 2. I was just curious how you could improve that. [/quote]

Use Yahoo Site Explorer to find out answers for such questions: [url=https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oG7zdrysZO3rEAniXal8kF?p=www.agentnadia.com%2F&fr=sfp&bwm=i]Yahoo Site Explorer[/url]

They don't display every incoming link to a website but they are pretty thorough. Btw, Yahoo! announced it shut down the service so do as many queries as you still can since they won't be around for much longer

Shuts down for good on the 21st. I've already seen my stats take a hit on the numbers so it is no longer accurate at all.

[quote=bfisher88]Shuts down for good on the 21st. I've already seen my stats take a hit on the numbers so it is no longer accurate at all. [/quote]

On the 21st of November??? [censored], I didn't know it was happening so soon :o