{"id":457,"date":"2006-09-26T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2006-09-26T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T21:20:30","slug":"blogoff-post-80-attracting-and-retaining-traffic-by-being-visually-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/457\/blogoff-post-80-attracting-and-retaining-traffic-by-being-visually-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff Post #80: Attracting and retaining traffic by being visually interesting . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/blogdetail.php?ID=1220\" target=\"_blank\">SEOmoz blog, a definitive resource<\/a>, how to use art and graphics to attract readers to your real estate weblog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ingredients: A useful site, a talented CSS designer and a list of design portal sites (this one and this one come in handy).<\/p>\n<p>Process: Re-design your existing site to the best of your ability. Use pure CSS, graphics, color and layout that mesh well and make it not only easy to use your site, but aesthetically remarkable, too. If you&#8217;re struggling for inspiration, look at the sites that make it to the front page of this site.<\/p>\n<p>Results: The design portals themselves can send 1-2 thousand uniques per day if you make their front pages, but the additional value you&#8217;ll get from other bloggers and sites picking you up once you make it there is also worthwhile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The work they&#8217;re talking about costs serious money, but that&#8217;s not an excuse to limp along with a site that looks like a circus poster or the classified pages. This is something you can always keep on your radar, how to make your pages more interesting graphically&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sellsius 101\" rel=\"tag\">sellsius 101<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From SEOmoz blog, a definitive resource, how to use art and graphics to attract readers to your real estate weblog: Ingredients: A useful site, a talented CSS designer and a list of design portal sites (this one and this one come in handy). Process: Re-design your existing site to the best of your ability. Use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2470,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2470\/speaking-in-tongues-a-step-by-step-guide-to-speaking-in-web-sites\/","url_meta":{"origin":457,"position":0},"title":"Speaking in tongues: A step-by-step guide to speaking in web sites","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I never know what other people don't see. 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