Switching to a real estate webmasters website from Advanced Access - FAQ

Sounds great, AA folks need to  get on board and REW is the Bullet Train. We know a couple of other guys @ ibs that made the switch flawlessly ~ should we invite them?  

As much as I'd love to help REW, I'd like to keep it a secret. To late, the secret is out already Not much of a comparision when you look at REW sites vs AA and the others.

Thanks Morgan! hmmm those all look like my questions! lol. Thanks for the useful info.

@FindCRE, My feeling exactly. The first question listed above is about search engine ranking. Morgan answers that question but I just want to add a comment to that. Being at the top of the search engines bring clicks, but not nessesarily business. IMO if you want to capture more business you need a website capable of doing that, AA is not the website for that. I know this because I've been there and done that.

Very true Dennis. When I first began looking at sites, I was considering AA. However, I could not get over how awful thier designs were. So I decided to go with REW, must admit its worked out pretty well!

Anyone even considering AA at this point would do well to stay far away. Like FindCRE stated, I too would love to keep this a secret, but thats just not fair. Not to worry, agents like us are far and few between. Companies like REW are unheard of in todays companies that put support at the bottom of their priority list. I'll say this and it should answer anyones concern about switching over. When I call (and you don't need to because they truly embrace the Internet and all its benefits, but when I do) Everyone knows who I am. When my web site launched and I called less than an hour later, Jen had already seen it and commented on it. What can you say about a company that actually has a human, a Pleasant, Friendly and Knowledgeable human actually answering the phone today? You can say that they are headed to the top of this game on their merits and not by who the sponsor like AA does.

I want to go on record to encourage all my competitors to invest in an AA site.       

LOL - Good idea Wayne!

To whom,

I have been with Advanced Access for the past 10 years and util recently I thought I was doing well enough, however, I had some friend who's knows much more than I make some changes in my meta tags recently and I just found out the a marketing person who was responsible for my web site market at Advanced Access changed the meta tages and ever since my web site has lost it's plavement.

Current employee - although one might understand why you would keep your identity a secret, at the same token how are users supposed to take your comment seriously as opposed to this being a "past employee" who hates on AA because of a dispute etc - or perhaps even a competitor. I think if you want to have our readers take things like this seriously, then you would somehow have to be able to verify your identity - if you would like to keep it private but still verify for the group, you could email me at morgan @realestatewebmasters.com from an advanced access email address, and I could confirm (without providing details) that you are in fact who you say you are.

Otherwise I think our readers (myself included) will just think you are a disgruntled poster and not take your post seriously.

Morgan I have seen very few posts that I thought needed to be deleted here, but that is one  - there is no purpose for this guys post other than to cause harm and he is helping no one.  What a fabulous employee, doesn't he feel bad cashing his pay check.  This is REW, not whistle blowers hotline.  99% of all websites generate no leads and we all know that it is because they all contain the same canned content and are not unique.  My opinion is that this guys post takes away from these forums and even if he responded privately to you it still smacks of someone trying to do harm to your competitor when they are perfectly capable of shooting themselves in the foot on their own.  Just my 2 cents.

You're absolutely right Cal, I was going to call him out on the BS (because I do think it's just sour grapes, and I don't like deleting comments if they are valid (and verified) but in this case - I think I can make an exception - going to hit the delete key now.

Comment removed - webmaster is glad he has good friends to remind him of such things

Wondering when webmaster started referring to himself in the 3rd person.

Morgan Carey and Webmaster are actually 2 different people, they just share the same (needs to go back to the gym) shell lol