IDX Plugin for Indexable Listings Released by Diverse Solutions

January 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

From Diverse Solutions:diverse solutions idx wordpress plugin ds idxpress IDX Plugin for Indexable Listings Released by Diverse Solutions

ThisIDXpress plugin will almost certainly give you a massive increase in your website visitors and a colossal boost in your search engine rankings by allowing Google, Yahoo!, and Bing to index the MLS’s properties for that will be found on your website and domain.

While other solutions either frame in the MLS content from another domain or charge you tens-of-thousands of dollars for a website you’ll never own or fully control, dsIDXpress is different. In a nutshell, dsIDXpress allows you to display search-engine-indexable content for the properties in the your MLS on your own WordPress blog / website and on your own domain name. The content for the lists of properties and property details can be accessed via URLs on your blog (ex. www.yourblog.com/idx/city/los-angeles/) or via our Live Listings℠ shortcode functionality.

With dsIDXpress, the listing data never gets stale since it’s all maintained by and resides our own servers. You’ll never have to worry about showing inactive or outdated listings on your since our system automatically takes care of all of the feed updates from each MLS. In fact, ALL of the data displayed is never more than 24 hours old and is often never more than 2 hours old (depending on MLS policies)!

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • 30 second plugin installation process that’s fully-integrated into WordPress
  • Live MLS data directly on your own blog or site and on your own domain
  • Multiple WordPress widgets make features listings in your sidebar a breeze
  • Tremendous increase in website traffic from search engines
  • Live Listings℠ shortcode insert real-time listing data directly into pages / posts
  • Shows visitors you’re an expert in your area
  • Property slideshows, Google Maps integration, and so much more..


DETAILS

  • EASY TO INSTALL: Simply download it from WordPress, click install, click activate, put in your Activation Key and you’re done. That’s all! There is no technical knowledge or special skills needed.
  • WIDGETS & SHORT CODES: Widgets and shortcodes give you more ways to create dynamic content. With shortcodes you can drop property details or groups of listings onto any post or page.
  • SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZED: All of the HTML that the dsIDXpress puts out is semantically appropriate. The benefit of semantic markup is that there’s less HTML bloat and more content for search engines to see and index.
Filed Under: IDX, Plugin, WordPress

Postlets vs vFlyer…Which to Use for Your Real Estate Listings?

January 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Real estate agents are always asking me which to use…vFlyer or Postlets. I say BOTH!

Postlets is free and vFlyer has a subscription fee. So for a small fee each month (plus your time to enter your listings into each system) you can get your real estate listings “shot gunned” (syndication) to lots of other real estate sites.

When your broker syndicates to real estate sites, as soon they are in “contingent” or “pending” status, the feed updates the status and your listing will no longer be marketed. If you do  your own syndication, your listing will stay on the internet a little longer and you will be able to generate more leads. (Plus, if you are a Trulia Pro member, you can brand the listing syndication properties long after the broker syndication feed has been removed.)

Both create .html code which can be used to post your listing to Craigslist and Backpage. Unfortunately, a lot of my clients are telling me that their ads using this code are being flagged when their “ugly ads” are not. So, if you are posting and this happens to you – this might be why and you may need to find alternatives for your ads.

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Filed Under: backpage, Craigslist, kijiji, Listing Syndication, Postlets, vFlyer

Realshout Plugin

January 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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A few weeks ago I reprinted an article about the new plugin for real estate WordPress blogs, Realshout.

There are so many plugins available to make your real estate blog robust b ut this one seems to be ideal for agents.

I haven’t had a chance to use it yet and hope to integrate it into the WordPress blog we create.

Have you used it? What do you like about it? What would you change if you could? Would love to hear your feedback.

moz screenshot 3 Realshout Plugin

Filed Under: Plugin, WordPress

Lock up your local market! Introducing Trulia Local Ads

January 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

ARTICLE FROM TRULIA BLOG:


Today we’re excited to announce our new hyper-local advertising platform, Trulia Local Ads. Local Ads completely open up the ad market on Trulia, making it affordable for real estate professionals and businesses of all sizes to own a slice of their local market. What does a slice of your local market look like? It’s an easy way of directly targeting audiences at the city or even ZIP code level, reaching the local customers who matter to you most.

We understand that your local market may be a crowded space. Local Ads make it simple to outshine the competition by grabbing the attention of local buyers and sellers. In each city and ZIP code, there is a limited amount of advertising inventory, so when you lock up a large share of ad space, you lock out your competition. It’s a snap to activate your Local Ads campaigns. Just select a few locations and use sliders to purchase the slice of your local market that meets your budget. Ads targeted by ZIP code will show up on listings pages, while ads targeted by city show up in search results.

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We’ve spent a lot of time making Trulia Local Ads campaigns fast and easy to create. When you build your Local Ads campaign, you can select from default ad templates that dynamically update using your Trulia listing data or profile information. These ads are generously larger than competing services and perform 5 times better than the industry average for banner ads. If you’ve previously built your own advertising creative for campaigns elsewhere online, Local Ads allows you to simply upload your own custom image.

localads blog 3 Lock up your local market! Introducing Trulia Local Ads

For now, Trulia Local Ads is in limited release and only available to our Trulia Pro subscribers. Please sign up to be notified when we release to the general public. If you’d like immediate access to Local Ads so that you can get the jump on your competition, subscribe to Trulia Pro.
Please use referral code PREM492 if you upgrade your account

Filed Under: Trulia
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