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The One-Page Website Trend – It’s Pros and Cons

Many real estate web providers offer one-page websites dedicated at specific properties only, rather than an entire agent/brokerage website. While this has some advantages, there are many other disadvantages to consider before moving in this direction.

The biggest benefit that Realtors® may see in this is the fact that a specific domain such as www.1234MainStreet.com can take a customer directly to view the listing. However, this can be achieved just as easily by pointing any domain directly towards a specific page within your existing website.

Isolated Domains Mean Less Google Ranking Opportunities

These single-property domains has no permanent presence. It’s also not part of your primary domain that you have kept, and will keep, for years to come, which means there’s no Google ranking accrual that happens. It will provide one or two backlinks while it’s alive, then when you scrap it after the listing sells, it’s gone. There are no permanent benefits of these single-property websites to your long term Google ranking.

As you can see, the cons of a separate single-property website greatly outweigh the pros:

• Overall less effective for long term search engine presence of your primary domain

• Additional ongoing costs of separate websites & domain maintenance is higher

• The set-up requires a bit more administrative/routing work each time

Then, Is There A Better Way?

A better Way To Utilize Single-Home Domains With Your Existing Website

In the above example, the domain http://2140UnionCourt.ca simply forwards to the West Vancouver home detail page on www.NeacsuDenner.com making the matter simple.

• Easy-to-remember, Easy-to-type domain that can be used for print, social media, emails – everywhere!

• Great looking landing page for the property detail itself with plenty of custom upgrades

• Boosts keyword relevance and search ranking for the primary domain, www.neacsudenner.com.

• The property page is permanent on your website for as long as you wish to keep it (active or sold)

Making The Right Impression With Customized Listing Detail Pages

Our real estate websites can be customized and upgraded to look better, perform better, and suit your branding & marketing needs. If more people are landing on your listing detail pages, putting more effort is a natural step to increase your website performance – such as time on page, pageviews per visit, and conversion (contact) rates.

Furthermore, our Google Analytics data shows that more than 1/3 of website visitors enter through property detail page – so it deserves as much attention and upgrades as the homepage (which is the other most common entry point of our websites).

Individual property websites can often look enticing with its big beautiful photos and a customized layout & look. Often these pages evolve in design quickly, since each piece is a stand-alone. With Brixwork websites, one upgrade can apply to all of your own listings, MLS® Reciprocity listings, or both!