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SEO to Know: RSS Feed Submission Sites
Real Estate WordPress Plugin Enables Searchable Listings for Free
REPOSTED PRESS RELEASE BY REALSHOUT.COM
As an alternative to IDX solutions, real estate marketing company, RealShout, offers a free WordPress plugin that allows agents and brokers to have searchable real estate listings on their site.
Grover Beach, CA (PRWEB) January 5, 2010 — With WordPress being the choice for many real estate bloggers, RealShout has unveiled a new plugin for the publishing platform that will enable real estate professionals to have searchable local listings on their blog or website.
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The free searchable listing Real Estate WordPress plugin can be installed on any WordPress template and functional the same day. Pulling data from the Google Base API, the plugin provides ample data to populate any real estate site. Customization capabilities include colors, location (cities), distance, bedrooms, bath, and price. The plugin enables listings to display in a list with thumbnail pictures, which can be clicked on to view more details, photos, a Google Map, and more.
Setting it apart from many IDX services, the RealShout plugin does not place listings in an iframe, thus allowing them to be indexed by search engines.
“Up until now, real estate professionals had to purchase expensive IDX solutions in order to display neighboring listings to their visitors,” says Misty Lackie, CEO of Go Smart Solutions, LLC, the parent company of RealShout. “We’re offering this plugin for free to allow agents and brokers to have searchable listings on their site without spending hundreds of dollars.”
The plugin is offered for free on the RealShout website or the WordPress Plugin Directory, and is compatible with most WordPress templates.
RealShout.com is a real estate marketing company that guarantees leads for agents, real estate brokers, and mortgage brokers. The company also offers marketing services to MLS’s nationwide.
RealShout is the creation of Go Smart Solutions, LLC, a company that has been providing advertising solutions for professionals and small businesses since 2002. RealShout provides lead generating online real estate advertising for agents and brokers in the industry
vFlyer now syndicates to Kijiji and you can Tweet it
OK, I am a day behind in reading my emails and if you are too then this might actually be NEW news for you.
vFlyer now automatically posts real estate and rentals listings in the U.S. to Kijiji.com for vFlyer business subscribers! [Key word = business subscribers] They will automatically syndicate so no manual postings – now if others will follow their lead!
Also, you can now share your vFlyers on Twitter by selecting “Share on Twitter” under the More Options section on the Publish Successful page.
Questions? Let me know.
Don’t have time and need help setting up your listings on these sites. Let me know. 
Sites to add to “services”
Sites to Add to Services
You can copy this list and paste into your own text box under the Settings ->Writing-> text box for Update Services in your WordPress blog set up. (Make sure your privacy settings are not set to private or you will not see the text box.) If you have installation questions, let me know.
Below is a list from WordPress that you can copy and paste into the text box of your blog.
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http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
You Have 5 Seconds to Impress Me or I am Outta Here! (Is Your Site Converting Visitors?)
Statistics show that visitors on a website will give it a “once over” for about 5 seconds to determine
- If they can easily navigate your site
- If the information they are looking for is on the page / relevant content
FIVE SECONDS! That’s it - – - that’s not a lot of time for a making a lot of mental notes. If they are gone without clicking on other links they are a “bounce” and you have a problem.
Think about your real estate Website as a home you are helping the property owners getting ready to have photographed.
- Does the home look cluttered?
- Do you need to take your arm and run it down the shelf to remove all the knick-knacks?
- Are the kitchen counters over accented with cookie jars and roosters?
- Is there more furniture in a room than needed?
If your site is too cluttered, it will be confusing to the visitor and they will leave.
Below are a few tips to optimize your landing page to increase visitor conversion:
- User smaller and fewer graphics
- Use bulleted text list when possible
- Keep the content short – keep away from lengthy paragraphs
- Try not to have the visitor scroll below “one screen height” (meaning, if you have to scroll, your page has too much content)
- Reduce the number of choices and links
Another way to think of the first page of your site is to compare it to a magazine cover – simple images with a little teaser text and it makes you want to open the magazine and read more.
eClassifieds – 10 Tips to Post Ads Effectively on Craigslist, Kijiji, Backpage
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OK, it’s really not 10 tips…it’s 9!
eClassifieds can be a huge resource for generating buyer and seller leads through posting your listings to advertising an upcoming seminar that you are hosting. Below are a few tips to get you started or improve your current campaign:
- Create a spreadsheet of your postings with date posted, address, title and number of leads each ad producesm [TRACK TRACK TRACK TRACK TRACK TRACK]
- Use .html code from your Point2Agent listing, Postlet account, vFlyer, etc. so that the ad stands out from others
- If you don’t use code, create a photo collage with text and save the collage to PhotoBucket or Flicr and use the code they generate for you
- Don’t give all the information in your ad – leave something to get them to contact you by email, phone or to visit your website for more information
- Use the MAXIMUM amount of photos that are allowed with the posting method you are using
- Rotate different headlines for each property to test “keywords” in the title are generating the most leads TRACK TRACK TRACK
- Use ______underscore _____to _____separate ______text ____to _____make _____it ____POP ___more (can’t do this with Backpage)
- Avoid any of these @#$%^&* to grab someone’s attention
- Post ads throughout the week but make sure you have ads posted on Thursday and Friday (my stats show those days generate the most leads)
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Remember, visitors on these sites are shotgunning lots of emails about properties they see online and 80% go with the real estate agent who contacts them first! DON’T DELAY WHEN THAT EMAIL ARRIVES!
Good luck and let me know if you need help!
TweetWordPress Blog Plug-ins & Themes for Real Estate Agents
Listed below are plug-ins and themes for real estate agents to use with their WordPress.org blog. (Some have to be used in conjunction with others.)
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITES?
Word Press Plug-ins for Real Estate Blogs
- Feed Wrangler: A feed utility for creating custom feeds. Useful if you need a clean feed that doesn’t go through FeedBurner for example. (Visit plugin site)
- Featured Listings: This plugin was designed to assist real estate professionals with the marketing of their listings with their blog. By adding featured listings directly into your WordPress posts you increase the relevance of the content associated with your listings and provide a way for search engines to index content relative to your listings. The WP Featured Listing plugin requires Open Realty to function (Visit plugin site)
- Great Real Estate: The Real Estate plugin for WordPress (Visit plugin site)
- Listing Press: ListingPress creates a WordPress-esque query system for a registered real estate agent in the United States to automatically embed listings in to their WordPress blog. The plugin is free and open source (released GPL) but unfortunately the listing data is not. For more information on this, please visit ListingPress.com.
- NextGen: A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0. (Visit plugin site)
- Local Market Explorer: This plugin allows for WordPress to load in data from the following APIs listed below. For example, to load the Local Market Explorer for Seattle, WA, you’d simply need to point your browser to . If you have spaces in your city name, you can use hyphens for the spaces in the URL, like so: .At any time, you can link to any city in any state that you’d like. While not all of the APIs have data for every single city in the United States, you’ll find that most cities are sufficiently covered by nearly all of the APIs. The data from the different APIs is then presented on a single page that is dynamically created on the server depending on the specially-crafted URL that is being accessed. The format of the URL to load the plugin is as follows: city/state>.
- Realty: Chad Broussard had originally developed this plugin for use in client websites where real estate listings were to be marketed via the WordPress blog. After spending a great deal of money on programmers to develop this plugin, it became obvious that releasing it as a free plugin for the WordPress community would be more beneficial than harboring it for commercial efforts. So in association with Jared Ritchey Design, we developed this free plugin to provide website owners with truly easy to manage easy to integrate listings management features into their WordPress blogs.
- Zillow API: The UltimateIDX Presents, WP Zillow API for WordPress Real Estate Blogging at its best. Developed originally for our client use only, we have released this tool as a contribution to the WordPress community in support of the Worlds best Real Estate website platform, WordPress. This plugin provides blog website owners with a truly easy to manage easy to integrate charting solution for Zillow Demographics that can be put into your blogs posts and pages.
Word Press Real Estate Theme Resources
- StudioPress – Click here to visit StudioPress website
- Real Estate Themes – Click here to visit Real Estate Themes website
- Gorilla Themes – Click here to view Gorilla Themes website
- ThemeShift – Click here to visit ThemeShift.com website
- WPZoon – Click here to visit WPZOOM website
WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org…….Wait! ……..THERE’S A DIFFERENCE?
The WordPress blogging software is available in two forms.
- WordPress.com is “open source” software (free for anyone to use and modify to meet their personal needs) Since it’s free, it does have limitations.
- WordPress.org provides the software to create your blog but not the hosting so you will have to load to your current hosting or create a new hosting account (and yes, not all hosting accounts are created equal when it comes to the ease of using the .org software.)
WordPress.com Benefits
WordPress.com Cons
* The VIP program on WordPress.com for high-traffic and high-profile sites, allows you to run custom themes, custom PHP code, ad code, and WordPress plugins.
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WordPress.org Benefits
WordPress.org Cons
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Want Clients to Find You? You Need to Be Here – Google Business Locator Directory and More
According to the 2008 Nielsen Online Custom Survey and WebVisible, Inc. studies that were compared to the 2006 studies, the use for yellow pages is down 23% and the use of the local newspaper is 41% less.
What does this mean for you? You need to make sure that you are registered on all the “local sites” on the internet.
Why?
More and more potential clients are using the search engines and search directories (such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing, MSN, etc.) on internet to find local business to provide services and products they are looking for.
Tips for your profile:
- The search will use your zip code to map you but you can give yourself a little “punch” by adding zip codes to your profile – stats show that people search what they are looking for and the zip code “real estate marketing” and “89131″ (see image below)
- Ensure that your profile has all the keywords people will use to find you (real estate, bank owned, short sale, foreclosure, agent, etc.)
- Add a reminder to your calendar to make sure that profile is current every 6 months to a year
Google Business Locator
