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Project Title: WordPress Developer & Local SEO Expert for Real Estate + Restaurant Brand Project Description: I am looking for an experienced WordPress developer and SEO specialist to optimize and expand my current website. The site represents a coastal North Carolina real estate vacation rentals, but we are expanding it to include our annual property rentals, an area guide, and our hospitality portfolio. I need someone who can establish a strong technical SEO foundation while building out custom, easy-to-manage sections for my team to update in the future. Scope of Work: 1. Real Estate & Rental Architecture: Annual Rentals Section: Build a custom setup (using Custom Post Types/ACF) for annual rentals. I need a custom taxonomy setup so when I add a new property, I can simply check a box for the specific city it is located in. Event-Based Properties: Create a separate, dedicated tab/section to showcase our available event-based properties. 2. Hospitality & Area Guides: Crystal Coast Guide: Build a "Navigating the Crystal Coast" tab designed to feature local attractions, things to do, and area resources. (This should be built with local SEO in mind). Restaurant Portfolio: Create a section to showcase our 5 distinct restaurants, including a clean, easy-to-read layout for our menus. Homepage Call-to-Action: Design a dynamic "Featured Restaurant" block on the homepage that links directly to our [login to view URL] and restaurant webpage for table reservations. 3. SEO & Performance (The Foundation): Technical SEO & Indexing: Ensure the site is fully crawlable, configure the primary SEO plugin, generate XML sitemaps, and submit them via Google Search Console. On-Page & Local SEO: Write high-converting title tags and meta descriptions for core pages. Target long-tail, location-specific keywords (e.g., Morehead City real estate, Crystal Coast rentals). Speed & Performance: Implement basic speed optimizations (caching, image compression) to ensure fast load times on mobile and desktop. Ideal Candidate: Deep expertise in WordPress development (specifically using Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Advanced Custom Fields). Proven track record optimizing WordPress sites for local service businesses. Ability to build clean, user-friendly backend dashboards so I can easily add properties and menus myself without touching code. To Apply, Please Provide: 1. A few links to live websites you have built or optimized (preferably real estate, property management, or restaurant sites). 2. A brief explanation of how you will structure the backend for the "Annual Rentals" city checkboxes. 3. Your estimated timeline and quote for this project. Note: To prove you have read this brief and are not an automated bot, please start your proposal with the exact phrase "Coastal Setup". Generic, copy-pasted bids will be ignored. Skills Required: WordPress, SEO, PHP, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Local Search Optimization, Web Design
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Hello, ✔️ White Hat SEO ✔️ 100% Manual Work ✔️ 10+ Years of SEO Experience ✔️ Focused on Long-Term Google Rankings We are a highly experienced SEO team with over 10 years of expertise in helping businesses improve their online visibility through ethical, white-hat SEO strategies. Our services include comprehensive On-Page SEO and Off-Page SEO, technical optimization, keyword research, content optimization, and high-quality link-building practices designed to improve your website's search engine rankings and organic traffic. We will follow these phases in SEO work: - • Insightful SEO Keyword Research • Comprehensive & custom made SEO Audit • Advanced Technical SEO for your website • On-Page SEO • Off-Page SEO • Reporting Thanks & Regards
$250 USD in 30 days
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Coastal Setup. I’ve read the full brief and this is a strong fit for my WordPress + local SEO background. I can build the Annual Rentals backend with custom post types, ACF fields, and a city taxonomy so your team can add properties by simply selecting the relevant location. I can also create the restaurant, event-property, and Crystal Coast guide sections while setting up the technical SEO foundation properly. If you want, I can start by reviewing your current site structure and mapping the cleanest expansion path.
$450 USD in 7 days
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Hello I have strong experience building custom WordPress websites using Custom Post Types, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), custom taxonomies, and SEO best practices. I can expand your current site while keeping the backend clean and simple so your team can manage properties, guides, restaurants, and menus without editing code. For the Annual Rentals section, I will create a Custom Post Type with a City taxonomy, allowing you to assign each property by simply checking the appropriate city. I will also build dedicated sections for Event-Based Properties, the Crystal Coast Guide, the Restaurant Portfolio, and a dynamic Featured Restaurant block on the homepage with reservation links. I will establish a solid technical SEO foundation by configuring your SEO plugin, XML sitemaps, Google Search Console setup, optimized metadata, local keyword targeting, caching, image optimization, and performance improvements for fast loading across all devices. I have experience delivering user-friendly WordPress solutions for property and hospitality businesses. I can complete this project within 2–3 weeks and provide a competitive fixed quote based on the final requirements.
$250 USD in 30 days
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Coastal Setup Hi there, We understand you're looking to optimize and expand your current WordPress website to include annual property rentals, an area guide, and your hospitality portfolio, with a strong focus on technical SEO and custom, easy-to-manage sections for your team. With our expertise in WordPress development, particularly using Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Advanced Custom Fields, we're confident in delivering a tailored solution. We've built similar projects, such as a website for a luxury real estate company and a custom WordPress site with integrated SEO for a local business. Our team has 17 years of web development experience and a 5.0 rating across 458 reviews on Freelancer. We'll ensure a clean and user-friendly backend dashboard for easy updates, and implement basic speed optimizations for fast load times. One question: How do you envision the "Navigating the Crystal Coast" tab being updated and maintained over time, and are there any specific local SEO strategies you'd like us to prioritize? Feel free to message us to discuss the details! — Webbook Studio
$460 USD in 10 days
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Hello, I understand you're seeking to expand your brand's website while enhancing its SEO, particularly in the areas of real estate and restaurants. Allow me to offer a tailored solution to meet your needs. For the WordPress development and backend enhancements, I will focus on restructuring the website to improve performance and user experience. This includes utilizing the latest HTML and PHP techniques to create a seamless, responsive design that aligns with your brand identity and appeals to your target audience. On the SEO front, the goal is to boost your visibility in local searches which is crucial for real estate and restaurant businesses. I will carry out an in-depth analysis to identify relevant keywords and optimize content accordingly. Moreover, implementing best practices in property management features will help showcase your listings more effectively, drawing more traffic and conversions. By combining these elements, I aim to provide a comprehensive solution that not only enhances your website's functionality but also strategically improves your local search rankings. Best Regards, Khorshed Alam, RS Software
$350 USD in 12 days
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Hello, Coastal Setup: As an experienced WordPress developer and a leader in the global marketplace, my team and I can offer a wealth of skills and services that make us not just your average web service provider. With our track record optimizing WordPress sites for local service businesses, we understand exactly what it takes to elevate a coastal vacation site into a comprehensive property management portal. We are adept at using advanced features like Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to create easy-to-use sections, as you require for your annual rentals, event-based properties and hospitality portfolio. Our focus on creating clean, user-friendly backend dashboards would greatly benefit your aim of future updates without touching code. Furthermore, our search engine optimization expertise would ensure not just the crawlability but also relative visibility of your website through particular long-tail location-specific keywords specific to the area you operate in. To wrap up this pitch, with us at Your Software on board, you can have peace-of-mind about the technical SEO foundation, indexing, speed optimizations(this includes caching & image compression), XML sitemaps submission via Google Search Console and all other aspects that contribute to an effective webpage performance. Let's work together to bring the Crystal Coast's best properties and most delectable cuisines to the forefront! Thanks!
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Coastal Setup Good to see this project, I will build your Annual Rentals section using a dedicated Custom Post Type with a "City" custom taxonomy, so adding a property to Morehead City or Beaufort is just a checkbox on the edit screen. Alongside that, I will deliver the Crystal Coast area guide, the restaurant portfolio with menu layouts, and the Featured Restaurant homepage block linking to Resy.com. On a similar hospitality site, structuring area guide pages around location specific long tail keywords brought a noticeable lift in local map pack visibility within the first two months. Questions: 1) For the 5 restaurant menus, will you provide content as PDFs, or do you want editable on page menus your team updates directly? 2) Is the current theme a builder (Elementor, Divi) or a block theme? Send me a message and we can go over the details. Best regards, Kamran
$285 USD in 10 days
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Hi — Elias here from Miami. I see the goal is to enhance your real estate and restaurant brand through a robust WordPress site, supported by effective SEO strategies. What usually matters most here is ensuring the site is visually appealing yet scalable and maintainable. A common issue in systems like this is managing user roles and permissions, which can complicate workflows. Additionally, SEO must be integrated seamlessly to boost visibility without compromising performance. My approach would involve structuring the site for flexibility and future growth. I would prioritize clean code and a solid backend to support current needs and future expansion. Ensuring that SEO is part of the development process will be crucial for your brand's online presence. I've worked on similar projects, enhancing usability and search engine rankings for clients in real estate and dining sectors, focusing on stability. A few questions to better understand the scope: Q1 – What specific user roles and permissions do you envision for the site? Q2 – Are there existing integrations or plugins you'd like to maintain? Q3 – What are your expectations regarding scaling the site for SEO in the future? Happy to go through the details and suggest the best technical approach. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Hi, Coastal Setup , I can see the hidden need here isn’t just a nicer site; it’s a structure your team can actually grow without breaking SEO. I’ve built WordPress systems with CPTs, ACF, custom taxonomies, and local SEO foundations that make property, location, and hospitality content easy to manage. For your Annual Rentals, I’d structure properties as a custom post type with a city taxonomy so your team can assign locations with a simple checkbox/select flow, then use ACF fields for rental details, galleries, and key amenities. I’d also build the Crystal Coast guide, restaurant sections, and a featured restaurant block with clean, editable templates, while handling technical SEO, sitemap setup, Search Console, metadata, and core speed fixes. I’ve shared an initial estimate based on your description, and once we go over a few technical or functional details, I’ll confirm the exact cost and delivery schedule. I can share relevant WordPress examples and map the backend in a way that stays simple for non-technical updates. Would you like the annual rentals city filter to be a simple dropdown/checkbox taxonomy, or do you want multiple location layers like city, neighborhood, and waterfront type? Looking forward to your reply so we can finalize the exact plan. Thanks, Asad
$250 USD in 10 days
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Coastal Setup" With 10+ years of experience in WordPress, ACF, Custom Post Types, PHP, and Local SEO, I've developed and optimized websites for real estate, hospitality, and service-based businesses with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and search visibility. Let's chat to discuss your timeline, review similar projects, and plan the best approach for your website! thank you Regards Gaurav Garg
$500 USD in 10 days
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"Coastal Setup" Hi, I can create a custom setup for the “Annual Rentals” section using Custom Post Types and ACF, allowing you to easily check the boxes for each city. With 10+ years of WordPress development experience and a focused background in local SEO, I can establish a strong technical foundation for your website. The architecture will be user-friendly, ensuring your team can manage new property listings and restaurant menus without any coding knowledge. I’ll implement an effective SEO strategy, targeting long-tail keywords and optimizing page speed for an enhanced user experience. Let’s discuss how I can bring your vision to life! Best Regards, Priyanka
$500 USD in 7 days
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Expanding a vacation rental site to incorporate a restaurant brand requires a seamless integration that keeps the user experience intuitive for both property guests and diners. I can handle the site architecture updates and technical SEO adjustments needed to ensure both sides of your business rank well locally in the coastal North Carolina market. With 15 years of experience in WordPress development, I specialize in custom-coding solutions that go beyond standard templates. I am well-versed in optimizing site structure, improving page speed, and implementing schema markup—all critical factors for local SEO success in competitive niches like real estate and hospitality. I can complete this project for $446.02 with a 1-day turnaround. Let me know your current site URL so I can perform an initial audit and map out the transition for your new brand expansion.
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Coastal Setup Hi, I reviewed the project and the main requirement is to optimize and expand a WordPress site for coastal real estate rentals, adding annual rentals, an area guide, and a hospitality portfolio with a solid SEO foundation. I will implement Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Advanced Custom Fields to power Annual Rentals with a city checkbox taxonomy, Event-Based Properties, the Crystal Coast guide, and a Restaurant Portfolio. This plan uses Web Design, PHP-driven WordPress development, and SEO to keep the backend simple for your team. You’ll get clean, responsive, and fast work, with easy-to-use dashboards so updates are a breeze. Let’s discuss here now.
$250 USD in 30 days
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Hi! My name is Marjan and I'm here to offer you my services as a skilled applicant with over a decade of experience working on Freelancer.com. l believe I am the best fit candidate for this project due to my extensive experience; I would like to have a discussion to get to know that we both are on the same page. Once the scope will be locked, I will start working on it right away.
$250 USD in 7 days
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"Coastal Setup" Hi, I've worked on WordPress websites for real estate, hospitality, and local businesses, building custom property management sections with ACF/CPT while implementing technical and local SEO to improve visibility and make content management simple. For your project, I'd build a custom Annual Rentals post type with a City taxonomy, allowing your team to assign properties by simply checking the relevant city, which will automatically generate SEO-friendly city archive pages and simplify future property management. I've also implemented restaurant sections, location guides, Google Search Console setup, XML sitemaps, Core Web Vitals optimization, and mobile performance improvements to create a strong SEO foundation. A few questions: Are you currently using ACF Pro, or should I include it in the setup? Will the restaurant menus be updated manually, or do you need PDF/menu synchronization? I can complete the project in 2–3 weeks, including development, SEO implementation, testing, and deployment. I can also provide ongoing WordPress maintenance and SEO support after launch if needed. Thanks
$450 USD in 7 days
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Your WordPress site needs more than a visual expansion—it needs a manageable content architecture and a strong local SEO foundation for the Crystal Coast brand. I would build Annual Rentals as a Custom Post Type with ACF fields and a city taxonomy, allowing your team to assign each property by checking its city. Event-based properties would have their own dedicated section and templates. I would also create the “Navigating the Crystal Coast” guide with structured attraction and resource content, location-focused headings, internal links, and schema opportunities. The five-restaurant portfolio would use a clear, consistent layout with easy-to-update menu content, while the homepage Featured Restaurant block would dynamically link to the selected restaurant’s webpage and Resy reservation page. For SEO, I’ll configure the primary SEO plugin, review indexability and canonicals, generate XML sitemaps, connect and submit them through Google Search Console, and write optimized titles and meta descriptions targeting terms such as Morehead City real estate and Crystal Coast rentals. I’ll also address caching, image compression, lazy loading, and mobile performance, then test the key templates and forms. Are the five restaurant menus already available as editable content or PDFs, or should I build them from source materials? Muhammad Saad
$650 USD in 12 days
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Coastal Setup Hello, I have 9+ years of experience in WordPress development, Custom Post Types, ACF, and Local SEO. I can expand your website with a scalable structure while building a strong SEO foundation for your real estate, vacation rentals, and restaurant portfolio. My approach: ✔ Create a Custom Post Type for Annual Rentals with ACF and custom taxonomies, allowing you to assign properties to cities using simple checkboxes. ✔ Build dedicated sections for Event Properties, Crystal Coast Guide, and your Restaurant Portfolio with an easy-to-manage backend. ✔ Add a dynamic Featured Restaurant section on the homepage with direct links to Resy and your restaurant pages. ✔ Configure Rank Math or Yoast, XML sitemaps, schema, Google Search Console, and optimize title tags, meta descriptions, and location-based keywords. ✔ Improve Core Web Vitals through caching, image optimization, and performance enhancements. I can start immediately and expect to complete the project within 2–3 weeks with regular progress updates and a clean, user-friendly backend. Thank you!
$250 USD in 30 days
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Hi, I can build a scalable WordPress solution using Custom Post Types, ACF, and custom taxonomies, making annual rentals, event properties, restaurants, and Crystal Coast guides simple to manage from the admin dashboard. I'll implement a strong local SEO foundation with optimized architecture, location-based pages, Google Search Console, XML sitemaps, speed optimization, and high-converting metadata to improve rankings and lead generation. I've delivered similar WordPress, real estate, and local SEO projects with user-friendly backends. Let's discuss your project requirements in detail so I can provide the best approach, timeline, and fixed quote. Best regards, Raj Kumar
$250 USD in 15 days
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Hi, At our company, we specialize in building powerful and user-friendly WordPress websites that rank high on search engines and resonate with target audiences. Our web design and SEO skills are perfectly aligned with your project requirements for expanding your real estate vacation rentals site in Coastal North Carolina. In addition to having a deep understanding of WordPress development using Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), we have a proven track record of optimizing similar sites for local businesses. This includes implementing technical SEO practices, crafting high-converting title tags and meta descriptions, and ensuring fast load times through caching and image compression. Regarding the 'Annual Rentals' city checkboxes, we would structure the backend using ACF's taxonomy field type to create a hierarchical taxonomy named 'City'. Each city would then correspond to a checkbox which can be easily managed on the backend when adding new properties. Thanks....
$750 USD in 7 days
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Expanding from vacation rentals into annual rentals plus an area guide is a content-architecture job first - CPTs and taxonomies done right mean your team adds properties by checking boxes, not calling a developer. My plan: - Annual rentals section built with Custom Post Types and ACF: custom taxonomy so new properties slot into the right categories with a checkbox, exactly as you described - Area guide structure that interlinks with rental listings - the guide content boosts your local SEO while sending readers to bookable properties - Hospitality portfolio section with the same easy-update pattern as the rentals - Technical SEO foundation: schema for vacation rentals and local business, clean URL structure, XML sitemaps, and Core Web Vitals optimization - Local SEO for coastal North Carolina: location pages, Google Business Profile alignment, and keyword mapping per rental type We build WordPress property platforms with ACF-driven architectures in production. The taxonomy-first approach is what makes a site like this scalable - structure once, then your team runs it.
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