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That sounds great Joseph. Especially the h1 tags and PDFs. Platinum won't get you that. At least not yet 😉
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4Ward, as Joseph said you should be extremely cautious about trying to get a new IDX provider for your clients MLS RETS feed. Also, with regard to IDX Broker Platinum. Somebody is going to have play the role of "feed tweaker" for your feed. And this is not in regard to the MLS, but in regard to IDX Broker's product. They have hundreds if not thousands of MLSs they are serving. If something is not right, you or someone else using their product locally is going to have make them aware of it. For my local MLS feed that someone is generally me. It benefits my local competitors using IDX Broker as well, and to that degree is thankless work. But, this is actually another reason to not be the only one using a particular IDX solution in your local market. When I point out a glitch that is affecting my competitors' websites as well as mine it gets immediate attention, instead of "maybe it's your fault". Thankfully, glitches do not occur often.
And Joseph, don't start discussing the ease with which IDX Broker Platinum will get 1st page results. You have no experience with it whatsoever. It has to be properly implemented to get results like that, and that seems to be an insurmountable stepping stone for a lot agents and their web designers.
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4Ward, I am not ignoring your question. I think the robust discussion that followed it probably has already answered it. If you have any other questions that remain I will be happy to ante up my 2 cents worth.
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Joseph, once again I appreciate your concern. I use the option that says let google decide and they get it right every time. They have not once indexed my wordpress content using the www subdomain. Never.
BTW, long tail searches that return indexed off the market listings (detail pages) land on a page that uses the global wrapper. I have no problem that arrangement. They need to be looking for something else anyway 😉
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ED, I thought long and hard about giving up www for that reason. And, if you have a lot of indexed content out there using www I would not recommend it at all. When I first got IDX Broker I used "search" as my subdomain to avoid visitors clicking www indexed content from landing on IDX Broker's not so soft and not so friendly 404 page. After a couple of years I had no virtually no www legacy content left indexed out there, so I switched when the move to Platinum made my "search" subdomain obsolete. It was fairly easy setting up redirects to handle the indexed "search" clicks and land the at the new www search page.
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Joseph, just make sure you let them know you want Platinum. Platinum is actually still in Beta and most of their existing users have not made the switch. There's no need whatsoever to use the old. It's good, but Platinum is better. By the way, I commend you for choosing this product.
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Joseph, I appreciate you concern but until whatever it is you are concerned about has negative impact on SEO, lead generation and return on investment I will stick with what I have.
And in my case my domain is HickoryRealEstate.com, my IDX Broker content is at the www subdomain on their server. It appears seamless to most, and google indexes plenty of it each day. Google also serves up plenty of it as 1st place and 1st page results for long tail keywords searches. I love them for doing that.
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I completely agree ED'. I chose to focus my attention on only part of Joseph's post that I found misleading.
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Joseph Lee, ERA-LEGACY.com is a very nice looking site, and you make a good point about <h1> tags, but you are misinforming this forum's visitors when you lump all IDX solutions in one basket. My IDX solution is not framed, it uses urls based on my domain and indexes accordingly, it competes well for visitors googling street addresses and other long tail keywords, it converts visitors into leads, and it provides a tremendous return on investment.
Many interests take advantage of real estate agents, not just template website and IDX providers. It's also WordPress designers that do a poor job of implementing IDX solutions for their clients. They focus instead on stroking their clients' egos with theme customizations. If these resources were applied to proper implementation of a good IDX solution, you would have far more competition for your coveted long tail keywords. You can take that to the bank.
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cmueller733, thank you! As far as out of the box IDX plugins and ease of installation go I think you will be fine with what you have as long as you don't need/want advanced functionality. IDX Broker is a fully-featured IDX that offers a plugin to simplify installation of some of its core features. There is a huge difference between the two.
Go to this page where your plugin is branded as "dsIDXexpress Basic IDX Plugin" and compare its functionality to the two more fully-featured offerings from Diverse Solutions.
http://www.diversesolutions.com/idx-comparison-matrix
Then here
http://www.idxbroker.com/idx_broker.php?active=agents
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Thank you for the kind words ED! And I think you are thinking the right thoughts about customizing the mobile wrappers instead of using their standard offering. I have been tinkering with Platinum for about two months now. From your portfolio it appears we share a long-standing appreciation for both IDX Broker and the Genesis framework.
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I had this as a private reply but for cmueller773 and any others that are interested here it is:
As you will see, it's Eleven40 straight out of the box. Default color and all. I am also using IDX Broker Platinum, which has its own mobile responsive design as well. The two of them work well together, at least for me.
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A couple of months ago I switched from AgentPress to Eleven40 to get mobile responsiveness. Eleven40 is working great as a real estate website.
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It appears to me you are attempting to frame IDX data in AgentPress instead of using content entered by you or your client using the AgentPress Listings Plugin. One is not the other and I can't imagine there being a less than extra-ordinarily difficult, if any, way of making the two work as one.
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Zillow does not offer a free IDX plugin. Zillow's IDX products are offered through their wholly owned subsidiary Diverse Solutions. The basic plan costs $29.95 per month.
http://www.diversesolutions.com/product/ds-idxpress/pricing
But back to my question from before. If your client only wants to display her own listings she could use one of Zillow's or Trulia's free widgets for that purpose. To do so her listing data will need to be made available at and hosted by Zillow or Trulia. But, that's not IDX as these widgets will only display her listings.
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