I was looking really exellent ca me who loves reading and am always looking for information, thank you very much Ispeeck on my blog medium

Jim - traffic is low, only about 20 uniques a day. But I've done *nothing* with it since a few days after launch. I mean absolutely nothing.

Virtually all visits come from terms around "Phoenix MLS search" and 95% of those come from MSN / Live search. It is a nice complement to the main site as I get almost no traffic there from MSN.

Stupidly, I didn't set up the IDX search to differentiate between the "minimal" site and the main site, so I can't tell how many searches there turn to prospects. In hindsight I should have set up a separate email and IDX page so I could have tracked that. But with 150sh a week, 600/month of visitors doing nothing but searching, I have to think some prospects have come from there.

What's cool about it is there are search terms out there that will return the minimalist site, my main site and this blog all on Page 1. Owning 30% of page 1 can never hurt...

Jay - I'm curious about your stripped-down site after 1 year, and gaining some authority / backlinks. How does traffic / conversions compare with your P2A site?

- Jim

Great post. i have thought about this minimalist approach before, but it seems as if the search engines love big “established” sites, so it will be interesting to see what your results are with this minimalist approach.
http://www.doyenrealty.com

Great post. i have thought about this minimalist approach before, but it seems as if the search engines love big "established" sites, so it will be interesting to see what your results are with this minimalist approach.

I agree with your approach. My site's first page has the search page. I wanted to put what was useful to visitors and if they find something thet like...hey, mabye they'll call me.

Shaun McHugh
http://www.bostonskey.com
Boston Real Estate

An interesting experiment that will only tell with time. The only change I would make would be to hot-link the list of searches you have on each page so the reader doesn't have to go to the tabs.

Keep working on your site. As your traffic stats improve, your search engine listings will improve.

Webmaster - SavePress Money and Investing Magazines

Jay, we're big proponents of simple, listings-centric websites and I think you're on the right track. To be most effective, however, you need to either bring your search box to the homepage, or do something with your homepage to make it REALLY obvious how visitors get to the search interfaces, like flashing red words. When a visitor gets to your site, especially if s/he comes through the search engines, you have about a nanosecond to capture their interest. If they don't quickly (like REALLY quickly) find your search interface(s), they're gone. Good luck with your experiment!

Hi Jay - first time comment..

I've been using a fairly simple site for a couple of years, and you hit the nail right on the head. The trade-off is you get less traffic via searches and SEO, but the traffic that does find you really likes you. We get a lot of comments about how clean & uncluttered our site feels, and I've had a couple of clients tell me they selected me specifically because they liked how simple my site was. Now the trick is to pick up more traffic...

I won't leave the site address since I don't want to be considered a spammer or anything. But Jay, you have my email URL - let me know if you have any thoughts or want to talk offline (or via additional comments...)

I built floridaquicksearch dot com last year. It is only one page. The mls search feature goes off to the my MLS page.

I do add an original content article to the bottom of the page every so often. I have a had a little activity on adsense, limted traffic and no sales as a result of the site.

I think that this type of site has a place, the trouble is in search engine optimizing as you suggested.

I like the simplicity. I've been pondering similar questions about my site. You will never know until you try. I'm still in the paperwork stage of setting up IDX and have to direct traffic with a link for now. I would like to know your results as they develop.

I don't think people will find it without other content pulling visitors with SEO stuff.

The cluttered vs stripped down is a good topic though.

Jay, it looks good and some people will love it. Very simple to navigate and to get to the stuff that most people want. Like you, I find that the property pages take a very large percentage of the page views. It will be interesting to see if the search engines give it any love.

To be most effective, however, you need to either bring your search box to the homepage, or do something with your homepage to make it REALLY obvious how visitors get to the search interfaces, like flashing red words. When a visitor gets to your site, especially if s/he comes through the search engines, you have about a nanosecond to capture their interest.

To be most effective, however, you need to either bring your search box to the homepage, or do something with your homepage to make it REALLY obvious how visitors get to the search interfaces, like flashing red words. When a visitor gets to your site, especially if s/he comes through the search engines, you have about a nanosecond to capture their interest.

I was looking really exellent ca me who loves reading and am always looking for information, thank you very much Ispeeck on my blog medium

Jim - traffic is low, only about 20 uniques a day. But I've done *nothing* with it since a few days after launch. I mean absolutely nothing.

Virtually all visits come from terms around "Phoenix MLS search" and 95% of those come from MSN / Live search. It is a nice complement to the main site as I get almost no traffic there from MSN.

Stupidly, I didn't set up the IDX search to differentiate between the "minimal" site and the main site, so I can't tell how many searches there turn to prospects. In hindsight I should have set up a separate email and IDX page so I could have tracked that. But with 150sh a week, 600/month of visitors doing nothing but searching, I have to think some prospects have come from there.

What's cool about it is there are search terms out there that will return the minimalist site, my main site and this blog all on Page 1. Owning 30% of page 1 can never hurt...

Jay - I'm curious about your stripped-down site after 1 year, and gaining some authority / backlinks. How does traffic / conversions compare with your P2A site?

- Jim

Great post. i have thought about this minimalist approach before, but it seems as if the search engines love big u00e2u0080u009cestablishedu00e2u0080u009d sites, so it will be interesting to see what your results are with this minimalist approach.
http://www.doyenrealty.com

Great post. i have thought about this minimalist approach before, but it seems as if the search engines love big "established" sites, so it will be interesting to see what your results are with this minimalist approach.

I agree with your approach. My site's first page has the search page. I wanted to put what was useful to visitors and if they find something thet like...hey, mabye they'll call me.

Shaun McHugh
http://www.bostonskey.com
Boston Real Estate

I agree as well. you should make it as easy a possible for your visitors, because if you get them bored or if the information is hard to find they will leave ASAP.

An interesting experiment that will only tell with time. The only change I would make would be to hot-link the list of searches you have on each page so the reader doesn't have to go to the tabs.

Keep working on your site. As your traffic stats improve, your search engine listings will improve.

Webmaster - SavePress Money and Investing Magazines

Jay, we're big proponents of simple, listings-centric websites and I think you're on the right track. To be most effective, however, you need to either bring your search box to the homepage, or do something with your homepage to make it REALLY obvious how visitors get to the search interfaces, like flashing red words. When a visitor gets to your site, especially if s/he comes through the search engines, you have about a nanosecond to capture their interest. If they don't quickly (like REALLY quickly) find your search interface(s), they're gone. Good luck with your experiment!

Hi Jay - first time comment..

I've been using a fairly simple site for a couple of years, and you hit the nail right on the head. The trade-off is you get less traffic via searches and SEO, but the traffic that does find you really likes you. We get a lot of comments about how clean & uncluttered our site feels, and I've had a couple of clients tell me they selected me specifically because they liked how simple my site was. Now the trick is to pick up more traffic...

I won't leave the site address since I don't want to be considered a spammer or anything. But Jay, you have my email URL - let me know if you have any thoughts or want to talk offline (or via additional comments...)

I built floridaquicksearch dot com last year. It is only one page. The mls search feature goes off to the my MLS page.

I do add an original content article to the bottom of the page every so often. I have a had a little activity on adsense, limted traffic and no sales as a result of the site.

I think that this type of site has a place, the trouble is in search engine optimizing as you suggested.

I like simple. Most of the time less is more, however our IDX MLS search could use a mapping feature to make it a little bit more "sticky". It is too bad that successwebsystems has not integrated a mapping feature u00c3u00a0 la realbird yet.

I like the simplicity. I've been pondering similar questions about my site. You will never know until you try. I'm still in the paperwork stage of setting up IDX and have to direct traffic with a link for now. I would like to know your results as they develop.

I don't think people will find it without other content pulling visitors with SEO stuff.

The cluttered vs stripped down is a good topic though.

Jay, it looks good and some people will love it. Very simple to navigate and to get to the stuff that most people want. Like you, I find that the property pages take a very large percentage of the page views. It will be interesting to see if the search engines give it any love.