Optimize Your Website Navigation
Your menu is a crucial part of creating an engaging user experience. With this in mind, Benchmetrics has tested a variety of setups to find the most effective layout.
The goal of optimizing your menu is only to provide what your user wants. If there are too many options, the user will get overwhelmed and bounce. If there are too few options, the user will not find what they need and bounce.
Of course, every brokerage will have some variation, but we have found that this system provides the best foundation for your menu.
The New Optimized Layout
What’s New
Using “Listings” results in a click rate 10% higher than the standard “Find a Home”
“Communities” is a drop-down of the communities you have built custom pages to showcase. This section works best when it is organized into sub-groups. For example:
Communities
North-End
Lawson Heights
River Heights
West-Side
Confederation
Hampton Village
“Tools” is the updated “Get Advice.” This word is clearer to visitors, reflecting what they want. This drop-down is populated with the following options
“Sellers”
“Market Analysis” (formerly Neighborhood News)
“Free Home Valuation”
“Get Pre-approved”
“Our Realtors” is now “Agents.” This can have a drop-down for “Our Realtors” and “Our offices”
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Content Production
- Jan 10, 2024 How to Use The Featured Listings Widget From Benchmetrics
- Feb 6, 2023 How to Add The Listings Catalog to Your Website
- Oct 28, 2022 Page Building Guides
- Oct 26, 2022 Internal Page Design 4 Walkthrough Guide
- Oct 26, 2022 Internal Page Design 3 Walkthrough Guide
- Oct 26, 2022 Internal Page Design 2 Walkthrough Guide
- Oct 26, 2022 Internal Page Design 1 Walkthrough Guide
- Oct 26, 2022 How to Create and Use Custom Searches
- Oct 20, 2022 How to Add Videos to Your Real Estate Website
- Sep 7, 2022 Content Writing 101
- Jul 13, 2022 Get Your Listings First on Google
- Jul 12, 2022 Real Estate Video Hardware Recommendations
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Getting Started
- Oct 28, 2022 Page Building Guides
- Oct 5, 2022 CREA DDF Feed Setup Tutorial
- Jul 13, 2022 How To Grant Access To Your Website
- Jul 13, 2022 How To Access Your Agent’s Websites
- Jul 13, 2022 How to Add Benchmetrics to Your Facebook Page
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Optimization
- Jul 15, 2022 How to Hide Pages on Your Website
- Jul 13, 2022 Optimize Your Website Navigation
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SEO
- Oct 20, 2022 How to Add Videos to Your Real Estate Website
- Sep 7, 2022 Content Writing 101
- Jul 15, 2022 Get a Custom Domain for Your Website
- Jul 14, 2022 How To Optimize Your Pages For SEO
- Jul 13, 2022 Get Your Listings First on Google
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Social Media
- Dec 20, 2022 How to Install Facebook Messenger on your Real Estate Website
- Jul 14, 2022 Put Your Listings on Facebook Marketplace
- Jul 13, 2022 Facebook Messenger And Auto Responses Guide