IDX category archives

Today’s feature: An interview with Real Estate Webmasters CEO Morgan Carey about the SEO benefits of indexable IDX.  He reveals hard data on the resulting increased traffic, and the ability of individual agents to compete in the elusive quest for search results.
There’s been a lot of chatter about some of the newer listing scrapers [...]

I would love to get some real hard facts from agents that are actually tracking stats with goals through analytics. Not just agents that think one way is better than the other based on their feelings and their comfort level, but real data. Most likely the agent that is not going to call somebody that [...]

Back on December 23, I wrote an article here on GeekEstate Blog about a Wordpress plugin that Diverse Solutions was developing that would allow IDX listings to be fully indexed by search engines.
Earlier this week, the plugin came out of beta testing and has been released for general availability.
Here is part of the Diverse Solutions [...]

Aloha Tony did a survey in recent post that asked, “What percentage of your closings come from the web leads on your personal site? “.  I was amazed to see the high percentage of net savvy Geek Estate agents in the 0 -25% range. I would assume that most of the people that took the [...]

There are some great IDX providers and some not so great ones; some expensive and some cheap (or free). At one of the sessions at RE BarCamp NY last week, the following question came up:
Is having no IDX search on an agent or broker website better than having a really bad search experience?
What do you [...]

Last night, Diverse Solutions announced their new plugin, dsIDXpress (currently in beta testing).
I’ve been fortunate to be an early tester of this plugin, and can sum its potential up in one word:
Awesome. Radical. Kick ass.
OK, that’s four words. Work with me…
What dsIDXpress does, in a nutshell, is create search engine indexable pages of listings. This [...]

Last night, Diverse Solutions announced their dsIDXpress wordpress plugin is now available in BETA. Their demo site can be seen HERE, and if you want to be a BETA tester, you can sign up here. From what I have seen and heard, this seems like an awesome and long overdue IDX Wordpress plugin that has [...]

Reflecting back on the past year. I came up with three things that made a huge difference in my business. I would like to share them with you and here what you did in 2009 that made a huge difference.
1. Made the real estate search prominent on the homepage. (By putting the search high on [...]

The new REW IDX map search is due out in January — here are the new map features:

Polygonal parameter searches (with drawing tool)
Spherical (dragable / resizable) radius searches
IDX custom search builder (customize your OWN search)
Schools / ammenities overlay
Streetview enabled
New map search results pagination

Screen shot:

To date, Real Estate Webmasters has focused on the high end custom [...]

I just noticed that IDX Broker has an iPhone App called “myAgent” that is free to their clients. If there are any IDX Broker customers reading this who have tried it, what do you think? Are there any other IDX providers that have released iPhone Apps for their clients?

In my last post “ Website Design & Usability Make a Huge Difference ” I had mentioned that we could discuss ways to improve conversions by using a good lead manager (CRM).
Once you are able to get a web design that has great usability that has lowered your bounce rate and improved your traffic. Now [...]

Design your site for your users and not your ego. Lets face it, most users landing on a real estate site are most interested in searching for properties not whether you are a GRI, CRS, CRE, ABR, SRES, etc…. I think you get the point.
I re-designed my site back at the end of 2008. The [...]