{"id":1624,"date":"2018-07-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/25\/looking-back-website-rankings\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:27:47","slug":"looking-back-website-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/25\/looking-back-website-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: REAL Trends Website Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>What Makes a Good Website, Great?<\/h1>\n<p>The answer to this question differs by brokerage. For one, it depends on your brokerage&#8217;s goals and objectives. 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We spent an immense amount of time analyzing, researching and voting with our in-house web consultants on the best brokerage websites in six key categories. It\u2019s now one year later, and this ranking is a staple at REAL Trends to be replicated and expanded upon every year.<\/p>\n<p>We received thousands of site visitors to the website rankings on an annual basis and receive several different submissions from brokerages and teams around the nation. Nearly 60 brokerages were honored in the six key areas last year.<\/p>\n<h3>Website Rankings Winners From Each 2017 Category<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Best Overall<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupkora.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48242\" src=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/groupkora.png\" alt=\"website rankings\" width=\"352\" height=\"203\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Best Community<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupkora.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48242\" src=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/groupkora.png\" alt=\"website rankings\" width=\"364\" height=\"210\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Best Design<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williampitt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48243\" src=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/william-pitt.png\" alt=\"website rankings\" width=\"373\" height=\"215\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Best Mobile<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupkora.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48242\" src=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/groupkora.png\" alt=\"website rankings\" width=\"376\" height=\"217\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Best Property Detail<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/premierestateproperties.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48244\" src=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/premier-estate.png\" alt=\"website rankings\" width=\"378\" height=\"218\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Best Video<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beverly-hanks.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48246\" src=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/Best-Video-Beverly-Hanks.png\" alt=\"website rankings\" width=\"364\" height=\"210\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/realtrendswebrankings.com\/2017-website-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the Entire 2017 Website Rankings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you think your website has what it takes to be ranked? There are less than 3 weeks to submit your website! <a href=\"https:\/\/realtrendswebrankings.com\/submit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submit now<\/a> before it&#8217;s too late.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The official announcement of the 2018 Website rankings will be released on September 12, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Makes a Good Website, Great? The answer to this question differs by brokerage. For one, it depends on your brokerage&#8217;s goals and objectives. 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