19 Comments

August 14th, 2007 @5:48 pm  

Toby I think you made a wise decision….kind of a pre-emptive strike if you will. Rather than waiting for the other shoe to drop you made the choice to move forward. The company is lucky to have you.

August 14th, 2007 @6:42 pm  

Hopefully the site can evolve over a period of years so I will not have to go through the pain again :)

August 21st, 2007 @12:43 pm  

Your site looks great Toby. I’m using Wordpress too now, just did the change over and hopefully Ill see a similar improvement. I wasn’t as organized as you were for the transition however, still working out a lot of the details as “after-thoughts”

September 7th, 2007 @2:14 am  

I switched from Advanced Access template site to WordPress. I love it. My serps jumped immediately.

September 16th, 2007 @2:39 am  

Great article Toby! I am in the process of making the switch myself! I appreciate your insights!

Lisa Hill Said,
October 10th, 2007 @3:35 am  

Definitely a wise decision!

October 31st, 2007 @8:33 pm  

Dan how is the change going?

December 1st, 2007 @5:23 am  

Ken, I made the switch finally after about a year of trying to build my own site, I threw in the towel and hired a pro! Check out the new site!

December 15th, 2007 @2:58 pm  

Changing everything from AA to the Property Town Wordpress platform has been super for me. I look forward to even better rankings once we finish all the changes to my site.

December 20th, 2007 @11:37 pm  

Dan and Mack I would love for you guys to write a quick post about your experience with the change. It would be good to give other agents an idea of the process.

January 24th, 2008 @9:09 pm  

As a little update on the improvement of the site here are some quick stats from Jan 1 - Jan 15, 2008.

Total Sessions: 9,954
Total Pageviews: 25,015
Total Hits: 67,879
Avg. Length of Session: 6:59

Those numbers have been pretty consistent since the second and third month after going live. Not to shabby condsidering there hasn’t been to much seo done other than switching to Wordpress.

February 7th, 2008 @10:53 pm  

Toby those are great numbers considering you haven’t done much else besides change hosts.

Dan Said,
February 11th, 2008 @4:56 pm  

Hi Ken,
I posted an answer once awhile ago but it disappeared into Cyberspace. The switch was a lot of work because it forced me to look at my site and essentially rewrite most of my content. I couldn’t believe how trite and amateurish much of my original content was. It’s an ongoing process, but my traffic has doubled and the leads are very good. It’s a relief to be away from AA. My site was complete before it went live and I didn’t suffer any loss in the SERPs, and there has been a steady improvement since.

Dan

Ken Said,
February 12th, 2008 @5:15 pm  

Dan sorry about that. I get SO much spam that anything that gets caught by the filters doesn’t get reviewed, I just “delete all”.

I am glad that everything went smoothly and you have seen continued increases in rankings. Hope that business has been going good for you, our market is really picking up.

February 13th, 2008 @6:22 pm  

Dan did you switch IDX providers as well? I was using AA’s IDX solution and was forced to switch. If so who did you go with?

February 22nd, 2008 @3:19 pm  

Toby - your site looks really great! Changing hosting services can be very time consuming, as well as, rethinking the hierarchy of your content. Your results for January so that you spent considerable time on planning.

waynelong Said,
March 16th, 2008 @2:49 pm  

The proof is in the pudding as they say. :) Looks like your site turned out great. Planning a site - getting a workable platform - and adding great content are skills that pays handsomely.

March 18th, 2008 @11:35 am  

I think people get to caught up in what content to write and try to put to much personality into their blog. I try my personal opinion mostly out of the site while avioding controversy even though those types of posts are great for “buzz”. I guess the conservative approach is for me.

Dan Said,
March 31st, 2008 @7:34 pm  

Hey Toby,
Sorry it took awhile to respond. I had an outside IDX (Listingware) at AA and I kept it with Property Town. Works well for me!

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