Archive for February, 2010

How to create a Condo IDX Website in minutes

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

One of the advantages of getting a Real Estate Website or Condo IDX solution with us is flexibility.   Creating a Condo IDX Website is just a matter of minutes and we have all the tools necessary for you to get started today!   What makes us unique is that we help you launch a Real Estate Website or Condo IDX website in minutes not months or weeks.   How do we accomplish such rapid deployments of your next Condo IDX website?  The answer is quite simple.

3 Simple steps in launching your next Condo IDX Website.

1.  Decide the areas you are interested in working in.

We provide a simple tool to allow you to choose which cities you would like your users to search.  This saves you time and gives you great flexibility in your deployment of your MLS IDX.  The tool allows you to only showcase those cities you are interested in!.

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2.  Establish Your Condo IDX Communities.

Our Condo IDX Communities are groupings of how you would like to group your condo buildings.   You come up with the way you want to group the buildings and then simply populate these areas its that simple!!   We provide you the information, all you have to do is pick them! The communities can be sorted in any which way you like and featured throughout our various tools and widgets which accompany your website.

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3. Choose the buildings you want to represent.

We have a database of about 5,000 condo buildings which have been pre-populated with common information to save you time!  We realize that your number one job is to be a Realtor and not be spending hours, days or months populating general facts about a building.   All you have to do is decide which buildings you want to showcase.

All of our Condo IDX Buildings come with the following Items to save you time:

  • Common Community Building Photos.
  • General Facts about the Building
  • Live Upto the minute facts of what’s available for Rent or Sale.
  • Recent Sales or Rent History
  • Google Streetview Technology and Street Maps where available.
  • Information about the building.
  • Front end editors to allow you to easily add content.
  • Tools that allow you to replace images from our Condo Photo Buckets!
  • WE SAVE YOU TIME!

Don’t wait any longer!  Ask us how we can help you build your own Condo IDX project. Get a FREE Quote Today and don’t loose anymore time or business!

Select the Buildings you want!  it’s that simple!

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The Final Step is You!

You seen how simple it is and all that is required to have your Condo IDX Website.    The next step is for you to jump in and start getting a piece of your Real Estate Bubble.    If you would like to see a live demo of this simply give us a call (305) 479-2994 and will be happy to show you how simple this really is.   We have help generate over 30,000  leads in 2009! for our customers  and it’s only growing! so don’t wait any longer to get some business for yourself as well.

TOP 10 Real Estate Plugins for Optimizing your Real Estate Blog

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

In an increasing competitive Real Estate Blog web sphere how do you set your Real Estate Blog aside from the pack?  We have some suggestions that will help you increase your traffic and help you set your Real Estate Blog Site apart from the rest of the crowd.  These Wordpress Plugins can help you better manage your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques.   By better managing and installing these Search Engine Wordpress plugins you can help your website generate more traffic and increase your presence online.

1. All-In-One SEO Packdownload-plugin

This is a one of the most widely used SEO Plugin for your Wordpress, it allows you to control the meta descriptions and page titles.   The All In One SEO Pack includes the most efficient SEO plugins that enable you to perform most SEO operations needed to better help Rank your Real Estate Articles.   Some of the key features of this plugin include canonical URLs, Automatic Title Optimization for the search engines and Meta Tag generation to name a few.  Give this one a try and it will go a long way in helping your Real Estate Blog Rank just as high as others.

All In One SEO Screenshot

All In One SEO Screenshot

2.  Google XML Sitemap Generator for Wordpress

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This is a great plugin to help you connect with Google and their webmaster tool.    This plugin generates a special XML file that is used by Google to prioritize the relevant pages against all the other pages they index from your site.  All Major Search engines read a sitemap XML file and this Google XML Sitemap supports pretty much all the search engines.

Google Sitemap XML

Google Sitemap XML

3 - Friendly SEO Images

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Search Engine Friendly Images are images which have proper labels and attributes that describe the image.  Google reads this information to better understand what the image is about.  Remember that the web is also surfed by individuals who can’t see and the ALT attribute helps to describe to these users what the image is all about.

4 - Redirection of all Old Articles.

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Wordpress Redirection plugin will help ensure that your transition from one version of Wordpress to another is invisible to your end users so that in the event you rename an existing page on your site, your users are directed to the appropriate page.   When Google indexes or stores a copy of your page on their servers and you happen to rename your page, they will have a hard time sending the user to the original page, this is where this plugin helps to ensure your usesr always find the page.

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Redirection

5 - Robot Meta

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Robot Meta can be used on your Real Estate Blog to ensure the search engine only Indexes (Stores) pages and information you have made public.  The Robot Meta is also a great way to prevent the search engine from indexing duplicate content on your website by preventing the indexing of tag pages, category pages and author pages.

6 - Simple SEO Links

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There are times in which you want to link the user to internal pages with in your blog, but find it tedious to always have to link them, this is the solution that will help you cut your work by half.   With Simple SEO Link you can choose a word and URL and this plugin will automatically create the link for you.

7 - SEO Smart Link

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The SEO Smart Link is very similar to Simple SEO except that it offers you a little bit of more options than the one above.  Use this Smart SEO Link plugin on your Real Estate Blog, to link to your internal Condo Profile Pages, Inventory, Community Information and better yet associate your website with specific keywords.

SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links

8 -  Platinum SEO Plugin

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Platinum SEO Plugin is a variation of the All-In-One SEO Plugin and offers great Search Engine Optimization features for your Real Estate Blog.   It optimizes the Post and Page Title for the search engine, generates all SEO META tags automatically, helps you avoid duplicate content and you can even add page/post level HTML meta like index, noindex, follow or no follow attributes.

9 -  Broken Link Checker

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This plugin will help you ensure that as you write articles and post pages your links are all functional.  It also notifies you on the dashboard when links become broken.   You want to use a plugin like this one at least once a month to ensure you always have all your links fully operational.

10 - SEO Slugs

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When you run a Real Estate Blog you want to have very presentable URLs and make them Search Engine Friendly as well.   This plugin will help you ensure you keep certain words out of your URL and optimize your page/post URL titles.   The Seo Slug Plugin for Wordpress is  a good wordpress plugin to install to get the ultimate results you are looking for when it comes to search engine optimization.

Your Real Estate Blog should have at least 8 out of 10 plugins mentioned above to help you Search Engine Optimize your Real Estate Blog and help you stand out amongst your peers.  If you don’t have a Real Estate Blog, contact us and will be happy to help you set one up.