{"id":6828,"date":"2009-02-05T08:32:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T15:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6828"},"modified":"2009-02-05T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T15:30:02","slug":"ask-the-bloodhounds-what-do-consumers-want-on-a-real-estate-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6828\/ask-the-bloodhounds-what-do-consumers-want-on-a-real-estate-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Bloodhounds: What do people want on a real estate web site?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flanaganrealty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Flanagan of Flanagan Realty<\/a> has a nice-looking Coldwell Banker site. But he sends along this question, which I&#8217;m passing on to the brilliant minds who read, write and comment here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What does today&#8217;s real estate consumer want in (on) a real estate brokerage&#8217;s website? You may have answered this before but I have not been able to find the &#8220;list&#8221; on GOOGLE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting question. Even if you have the secret sauce, how do you enhance that initial moment of engagement? Rephrased as a more metrical question, how do you cut the dreaded bounce rate?<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <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>Jim Flanagan of Flanagan Realty has a nice-looking Coldwell Banker site. But he sends along this question, which I&#8217;m passing on to the brilliant minds who read, write and comment here: What does today&#8217;s real estate consumer want in (on) a real estate brokerage&#8217;s website? You may have answered this before but I have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[212,29,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flourishing","category-group-therapy","category-marketing","category-real-estate","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":679,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/679\/content-piracy-on-the-renet\/","url_meta":{"origin":6828,"position":0},"title":"Content piracy on the RE.net . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"An aggregator weblog called Real Estate Chatter is resyndicating the feeds of these 25 real estate weblogs:Altos Research Real Estate InsightsAppraisal ScoopCarnival of Real EstateMike's Corner Web 2.0 For Real Estate ProsNAR in the Newsrealestate.com.au News & ViewsOverseas Property Blog :: guide to international real estate investmentPressReal.comSeattle's Rain City Real\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":346,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/346\/how-i-feed-my-hungry-mind-my-opml-file\/","url_meta":{"origin":6828,"position":1},"title":"How I feed my hungry mind: My OPML file . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The other day I highlighted some real estate weblogs that I read every day, and, while that article is true, it's not the whole truth. 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