WordPress Blog Design
Blogs have come a long way in the last year or so. They are becoming integral parts of the Internet strategy for more mainstream businesses. Get Found Now has been developing custom WordPress systems, themes and plugins that are meant to give the search engines what they want to place sites highly, as well as to provide users with what they need to find what they are looking for on a web site.
The fact is, blogs are becoming core components to Internet Presence Management. This is most apparent in the Real Estate industry. All the major real estate informational sites like Inman and RIS Media are pushing blogging as the best means for agents and agencies to not only communicate with their prospective clients, but also as a way to get higher search engine placement.
If you are interested in either getting started with a blog, or making your existing blog better, than this is a good place to start. There are plenty of blogging systems out there that take care of web hosting, setup and configuration of blogs. Sites like Blogger and WordPress.com allow users to create blogs within minutes and all for free! While there are benefits to sites like Blogger (which is owned by Google), to achieve the best results, you need to have your own domain and control over every aspect of your blogging system.
Get Found Now has performed extensive testing on all the major blog service sites (Blogger, wordpress.com, etc.) as well as stand-alone blogging systems (WordPress, TypePad, etc.) and have found that the stand-alone systems not only rank higher, but get into the search engines much faster. While TypePad is a solid blogging system, we chose WordPress because of the superior support and myriad of plugin and theme options. WordPress has more options and is widely supported. If you are a TypePad user, you will still find these series of articles useful because the theory behind the technology and strategy for blogging can be applied to TypePad, we do have a lot more support for WordPress so if you are making a choice now, stick with WordPress.
WordPress Blog Design Services
When designing a blogging system, there are a lot of options. The most important thing about blogs is the content. The way that WordPress delivers your content is what separates it from other content management systems and gives it the upper hand in the SERP’s.
The actual look and navigation of the blog is handled by the theme. Get Found Now uses custom themes that are the best of both worlds:
- Website Usability- if users can’t find what they are looking for than your site won’t convert any of its traffic. By using deep link navigation your visitors will always know where they are on your site.
- SEO Ready - if your site isn’t ranking for your keywords than nobody will be able to find it!
This new series will take a look at every aspect of blog design from install to plugins and theme customization. Please leave questions as comments so I can answer them for everyone. For more information and to see samples of our work visit our WordPress Blog Design page.
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Wordpress is by far the best platform for real estate since it’s got so much available. I let my template website go and am putting everything into a blog website for the future!
thanks for this great article.
regards,
mehmet.
Hey, I dont think wordpress will make up a nice platform for hosting real estate related sites.. anyways its ur wish finally
Wordpress is the leader for sure. Our real estate blog is wordpress although I would like to try a few others.
Great article and the more that I am reading the more I am learning. Cheers.
That’s great article. Drupal and wordpress both are better. I prefer wordpress.
I really very liked this post. Can I copy it to my site?
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely, Timur Alhimenkov.
I think the power of wordpress in the Real Estate Market lends itself mostly to Agents who want to take the time to write meaningful articles. Unfortunately the average agent has so few clients, and those clients are so unlikely to take the time to read a blog (Honestly with work, kids, etc. then looking for a house… what is the chance one will read a blog targeted to the agent they select?).
There is definite strenght in preselling yourself to the public at large through Organic SEO and wordpress is a good tool for that. But how does it handle listings and integration with other tools.
I’ve seen some nice CMS implementations and I believe in the right hands a good designer could do a lot with wordpress but I’m not sure it’s the answer.
Yep, WordPress is a powerful system for real estate agents. I am building a site now using a new AGENT theme by the guys at Revolution 2 that is amazing. You can see it at charlotterealestatevoice.com, but it is still in alpha. The fact is it has amazing potential for brokers who want to have a lead gathering blog, not just a blog that says they are hip.
Wordpress is way ahead of the competition on this one.
Ya WordPress is one of the best tool for blogging.