Real Estate Website Home Page From Hell

Posted by Justin on 19 August 2010

TweetI spend a lot of time studying different real estate websites in different markets to see what others are doing. In my travels today I came across a website which had me spitting out my coffee all over my monitor. This is a snapshot of the home page of that website:

Real estate home page from hell

This has to win the top prize in the "Worst Real Estate Home Page" awards..which I'm just starting up now ;)

Just look at it, they are doing evertying you should never do. It's starts off with the four images with red text. They look totally awful and are difficult to make out.

And what about that intro text from hell: You have found "The Ultimate High-Tech Website for Intelligent Buyers and Sellers of Real Estate in Mississauga". WHAT? Are you kidding me? High-Tech??? What a load of rubbish. That is the worst intro I have ever read.

As if that wasn't enough...they've then put two lots of Adsense blocks right there on their home page! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Do they want customers or do they just want to drive them away? What about the Google Maps links all in a bunch to the right of the first Adsense unit?

And what is it with the yellow post it note and other thing below it?

Terrible, absolutely terrible. If they make any sales I will eat my shorts.

Tags: Website Mistakes

Comments (11)


Trend Setter says: 19 Aug 2010	LOL That is so bad. I have never seen anything quite as bad as that. Great post, made me giggle.


Janice says: 19 Aug 2010	Only one word for that: Urgh


paul says: 19 Aug 2010	I love it [was hoping it wouldn't be mine !!! ] fsbomallorca.com It makes my site look excellent!!


Justin says: 25 Aug 2010	Paul, yours looks great to be honest. The only thing I would say is that you could possible have a "canonicalization" issue on your site. All the menu links lead to the non www version of your site, yet your www version is still indexable. You should stick to one or other and permanently redirect the one you don't want to use to the one that you do. Hope that makes sense.


paul says: 25 Aug 2010	Thanks for your kind comments and yes your right, the canonicalization does have to be addressed. The site is in its third [ and final? ] version and is still being 'tweaked'. As its a one man band... moi... it all takes time. Thanks for looking and accept my apologies for the blatant advertising/ feedback though :)