Do you feel my website looks outdated?

[gohawks7790]

My real estate website is www.RiverValleyGroup.com

I'm considering undergoing a new design...bounce rate is somewhat high and I can't decide if the current design looks outdated or not. Thoughts?

[simonberenyi]

Hi - Hope this helps: The Home Page.

The top of the page looks fine, but would benefit from clearer and better positioned call to action buttons (example site: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/). You need clearer navigation to quickly funnel visitors where they expect, and want to be. This is likely one of the biggest reasons for your bounce rate.

The bottom half of the page looks amateurish and cluttered. To begin with, it simply requires better formatting so text and images line up more naturally. This will look much nicer, but more needs to be done. You need to be thinking - less is more for the home page, but its not necessarily that simple.

I think professional tweaking will help, but a complete re-design should be something you begin planning for immediately.

[Gordon_Hall]

As simon says, the top is mostly fine, but the bottom is messy. There is too much text - I'd remove all the text below " search louisville homes right here on our website" and probably move it to another page. Maybe keep one testimonial (or use a slider to show several). Shorten the page, less is more.

You may want to try https://www.optimizely.com to test alternatives to your home page.

[Travis_Bailey]

You have a nice phone number, about 35 scrolls down. I would think about that first.

And no matter how hard I try, I can't meet Heidi on HGTV. Story of my life.

Plus the other video kind of looks like she's a hostage.

[gohawks7790]

Haha I couldn't agree more Travis- as the one responsible for updating the site I have no access to changing where the number is, the lack of social media buttons, or the broken video links / bad videos. These are all reasons as to why we need to change the layout of the website completely.

Question: Literally the only part of the website I can edit is everything below 'Search Louisville homes on our website'...if I delete all the text won't it hurt my SEO for keyword rankings?