Travis Walters's (twalters84) Blog

One of the thing I get asked a lot is how to get a website higher in the SERPs.Well, it is going to take a lot of time, effort, and patience.There are two elements to SEO - what you do on your website and what you do off your website.Let's talk about things you can do on your website to improve S...

If you have a website and sell a product, whether it be west michigan real estate or cd players, a testimonials page can hugely benefit your website.Before you build a testimonials page, you need satisfied clients. You can only satisfy clients by doing a great job with your service. This article ...

One of the best features a real estate website can have is an interactive map search.There are a lot of map APIs out there include the google map API, yahoo mapAPI, and map quest API. My personal favorite is the google map API.The google map API has evolved a long way since it first came out. Ori...

One of the first things your developer should do when starting your website is to block crawlers from getting to your content. If crawlers get to your content before your content is ready to be released, then you will be playing catch up with the crawlers for quite awhile.So how do you block your...

I have been in the web business for quite awhile now. I get around fifteen job offers / day from various sources. Due to time constraints, I can not possible handle this work load nor would I want to.So the question I get asked a lot is how do you select a really great programmer to do this job? ...

In the following articles, I am going to discuss specific features I mentioned in my last article. Today, I am going to discuss why it is important for realtors to blog.For new real estate websites, it is hard to drive traffic to your site from search engine results. Some realtors may not see sea...

I am sure a lot of designers have stories on how they created the ideal real estate websites. Well, I am going to share my story on how my client's website became successful.Every realtor wants to be at the top of the search results for their particular key phrases. Unfortunately, only one in a f...