Private audit for Weichert, Realtors — Laurie Realty

Billy, here’s what I found on laurierealty.com.

Three things stood out — none of them your fault, all of them fixable. The walkthrough above hits the highlights; the playbook below is what I’d actually do about them.

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#1 Apex Realty ranks first organic for “realtor in Jacksonville Illinois” on this same playbook
Personal walkthrough · recorded for Billy
What I found
Reviewed laurierealty.com →

Three things slowing laurierealty.com down right now.

Every claim below was pulled directly from your live site — not assumed. If anything reads wrong, hit reply and I’ll show you exactly where I saw it.

Critical · Costing leads now

Your homepage takes ~15 seconds to fully load on desktop (63 external scripts). Most buyers on a phone bounce before it even paints.

Critical · SEO impact

Your homepage has 27 H1 tags. Google is supposed to see one, so it can tell what the page is about. Right now it’s a coin flip which topic Google picks for you.

High impact · Quick win

Your LocalBusiness schema is three fields long: type, name, URL. No address, hours, rating, or service area. That’s most of why your Google rich result is bare.

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What it’s costing you

Every buyer who bounces is a showing you didn’t book.

A typical closing in the Lake of the Ozarks puts thousands of dollars of commission on the table. A homepage that takes ten seconds to load on mobile isn’t a tech problem — it’s lost listings. A buyer scrolling Zillow at 9pm taps your link, sees a blank screen, and the next agent in the search results gets the call. Every month the findings above go unfixed, that pipeline keeps leaking.

Our playbook for realtors

Here’s what we’d actually do.

No 90-day discovery, no “strategic alignment.” The same four-step build we’ve run for every brokerage we’ve helped:

Fix the foundation

Cut load time, collapse the homepage to a single H1, and rewrite your LocalBusiness schema with real address, hours, rating, and service area. Google can’t rank a page it can’t read.

Live MLS feed that actually works

Property pages that load in under two seconds, a unique title and meta per listing, and Open Graph tags so every shared listing previews correctly on iMessage, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Same setup we built for Apex Realty at ApexIllinois.com.

Win “Laurie realtor” in search

Local SEO, a clean Google Business Profile, and a tight set of location pages that don’t read like spam. Goal: top three in the map pack for “realtor in Laurie” within 90 days. Apex now sits at #1 organic for “realtor in Jacksonville Illinois.”

Reviews + a content engine you’ll use

Close-the-loop emails that ask past clients for a review at the moment they’re happiest. One short monthly piece on local market trends — the kind that catches “moving to Laurie” searches months before someone calls an agent.

Same playbook, running today

Apex Realty — Jacksonville, Illinois.

Site rebuild, MLS integration, local SEO, and a Google Ads layer — all built and maintained by Elevated Ideas.

ApexIllinois.com →

Real estate brokerage

Central Illinois brokerage serving Jacksonville, Springfield, Chatham, and Decatur. We rebuilt the site, wired up a live MLS feed pulling new local listings, set up local SEO and a Google Ads layer, and built the content engine that compounds their organic visibility.

Live
MLS feed pulling central-IL listings daily
#1
Organic for “realtor in Jacksonville Illinois”
Google  ·  realtor in Jacksonville Illinois
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apexillinois.com
Apex Realty | Trusted Central Illinois Real Estate Experts
Top-tier real estate services with Apex Realty Team. Buying & selling homes in Jacksonville, Chatham, Springfield, & more.
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Jacksonville, IL Real Estate & Homes for Sale
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Jacksonville, IL Real Estate Agents
For the curious

The raw audit data we pulled from your site.

Verified live via DOM inspection on June 2, 2026.

MetricYour siteBest practice
Homepage load time14.7 sec< 3 sec
External scripts63< 15
H1 tags on homepage271
LocalBusiness schema completeness3 fields (type / name / url) — empty shell10+ fields
Open Graph & Twitter cardsOG partial, Twitter Cards missingBoth present
Mobile viewport setYesYes
Image alt-text coverage9 / 13 (~69%)> 95%
Blog / fresh contentNone indexedMonthly or better
Who put this together

Ryan Mason — Founder, Elevated Ideas.

Ryan Mason, Founder of Elevated Ideas

I run Elevated Ideas — a Jacksonville, IL agency that rebuilds local-business websites end-to-end. Custom sites, local SEO, paid ads, and the lead-capture systems that turn search traffic into booked work.

Most of what we ship replaces SaaS templates that look fine but rank for nothing — kvCore, BoomTown, Sierra, ServiceTitan, HouseCallPro. ApexIllinois.com is one recent build, now #1 organic for “realtor in Jacksonville Illinois” with a live MLS feed pulling daily.

I wrote Likes to Leads so the playbook is available even when we never work together. Chapter 4 maps directly to what’s going on with your site. A copy is in the package this letter came with.

Before you book

Quick answers to what you’re probably wondering.

What’s the catch?
No catch. The audit is yours regardless of whether we ever work together. The 15-30 min call is just me walking you through what I’d fix first if you were a client — you can take that and run with it on your own.
How long does the call actually take?
Most run 15-30 minutes — hard stop at 30. I screen-share, walk through your site, point at things, and answer your questions. No deck, no pitch.
Will you try to sell me something?
Only if you ask. Most of these calls don’t end in a project — the prospect ends up fixing the obvious stuff themselves and we both walk away. If we end up being a fit, we’ll talk about scope. If not, no hard feelings.
What makes you different from other agencies?
Most agencies sell you a strategy deck before they’ve done any actual work on your business. We do the opposite — this page is the work. We audited your site, found specific issues, and put it all in front of you with no call required. If it’s useful, you know exactly how we operate. If it’s not, you’ve lost nothing.

Want to walk through this together?

15-30 minutes. I’ll answer questions about anything you saw above and tell you the one thing I’d do first if I were sitting in your chair.

Book a 15-30 min call
Or just text: 217-724-8153