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Joseph LeeMember
I don't need assistance with this. I can remove it in css etc... I thought I would let SP know so when they do the update to Agent Press.
This becomes a real problem for people running multipress as they don't have a per site css w/o plugins.
Joseph LeeMemberIDX Broker Platinum is pretty good. You can read my reserves above. If you have no one else using idx to display listings then you should easily get a lot of first page results (from addresses) with idx broker platinum. Especially if your board isn't using Point2Agent. They are the ones that syndicate 9/10 times to trulia, zillow, homes.com. If the big companies are not in your board... Man are you lucky.
IDX Broker Platinum will get the listings indexed on your site. That is all you would need if there is that little competition.
Joseph LeeMember4WardMotion, I would suggest using a solution you know someone personally has used. The one thing about the idx solutions is that the realtor boards from location to location are difficult to work with. Sometimes they will send duplicate listings, missing listings, etc.. in their update. They don't allow idx solutions to pull sold/expired, so when their feed is flawed, so is the results on the idx; however, experienced companies that are normally in a lot of boards are accustom to coding around that.
I have used dozens of solutions. There are a lot more that are missing listings then there are those that are right. You can do a simple audit by having the agent go to his MLS and select "active" as listing type. Don't put anything else in as a parameter. You will get "X" results. Then do the same on the feed.
I wouldn't use anything other than something the agent is familiar with or something I have on good credibility. If the agent is familiar with IDX Broker (most are) then they will have the tendency to blame the solution. If you take them to something unheard of...
Joseph LeeMemberLOL
Joseph LeeMemberDP, make sure you sign up for google webmaster tools and tell google which domain you prefer (the non www.)
Joseph LeeMemberI want to make sure we all discuss this as what is best for clients/ourselves. Not so much proving which product is better.
Using www. as the subdomain is a bad idea. The first thing you do when you start SEO'ing a site is redirect the subdomains to the main domain. If you use www. to list your properties, doesn't that still leave duplicates of your actual pages.
example.com
The issue is not duplicate content. The issue is that people can now link to the www. and the example.com versions. This can slow down ranking.
I have been using SEO RETS for awhile. I can tell you that from extensive experience, the competition levels for long tail keywords is almost never enough to require page rank. Realtor, Homes, Trulia, and Zillow typically rank first page and give me a run for my money.
I see that as a big draw back; however, because of that your site does have a few major advantages I was overlooking at first. Most ranking is by SEO. Few people ever really link back to the sites. When they do, the link is discounted as Panda spam by google unless it's a major PR site; which, they understand subdomains etc... Your site's structure (internal link) is perfect. It's getting indexed on every single listing w/o bringing the page rank on your main site down. I admit, when you have the listings ON your site (literally) you can pull too much PR out of page easily if you don't know what you are doing.
Those are two observations from looking at it from the standpoint of an SEO.
Joseph LeeMemberI clicked your link Ed, dumb question. However, you are the first developer I have seen that uses FW not DW. I'm not a lone. Perhaps next time we hit the forums in a post we can both defend FW. As I know a couples... million devs that would bash it LOL
Joseph LeeMemberThis is not the new IDX Broker Platinum? You are right, I am misunderstood...
Is this IDX Broker Platinum?
I was told by IDX Broker Platinum the listings would provide SEO benefit to the parent domain by being present on the domain. If they don't push them with domain mapping to the parent domain there is no SEO benefit. Anyone that links to a property is not backlinking to the domain.
What happens if the property goes off the market, how are they handling the absence of a once existent url? If there are links passing juice to the url then it dies...
Social Media passes nothing through subdomains and google is becoming more involved with social media.
I paid my $99 this morning to idx broker. I need a product I can use when I can't use Seo Rets. They are only in like 90 boards but growing. I do stuff nationally.
IDX Broker is still in beta though. Setting up a domain map program shouldn't be impossible. It's necessary though. I mean indexing pages is the name of the game for immediate results; however, gaining backlinks gets the site ranked higher when it does index. Do you know what I mean?Ed you know a lot about platinum, do you develop with the product?
Joseph LeeMemberEd, that is a nice site. Everytime I see uber menu I miss it. Since I started using genesis I have not used it.
Joseph LeeMemberType site:idx.waterpointealty.com.
The pages are indexed there too. That is called duplicate content. Is every page in the subdomain canonical redirected to the parent domain? I don't think they are.
I am not promoting a product. I was comparing seo rets to idx broker. You started to try and point out off point items. I am looking at duplicate content warning in MOZ on that site.Joseph LeeMemberDP, you can check duplicate content at copyscape.com. I didn't go far to find that you are already duplicating several sources. I didn't log in to see how many.
Joseph LeeMemberIDX Broker Platinum uses subdomains and them maps them to your domain. That is a bad process. It's going to cause duplicate content on google. Since the data originates on their site, you will be the one with duplicates. Since there are multiple agents on their service in each board they arn't going to rel="canonical" your site cause there will be multiple agents in the same board. IDX Broker can't rel all of them.
I don't know what DiverseSolutions is offering, but if you are going between the two for wordpress plugins IDXBroker will have issues on it's hands in the long run.
Joseph LeeMemberThe best solution available for SEO and listings is SEO RETS. The company that programmed it was an SEO company that focused on real estate long before they ever started working with listings. RETS is vastly superior to IDX. You can read about it from NAR. It's also easy to up sell because agents know RETS exists, they just never had an opportunity to use it. SEO RETS literally brings the listings and creates pages on the wordpress site. It's a plugin. It comes with very developer friendly tools that let you drag drop "featured properties" widgets, the shortcode is remarkable. You can create a page like "water front" then do shortcode to display only water front in that board. It works on neighborhoods, cities, everything... The only draw back is it's not in every single board in the nation; however, you can call them. If you have enough clients in a particular board, depending on board fees, they might be willing to move in to the board.
From a developers stand point. It's the best cause it is unlimited customization. You get a broker on the program then the agents. Each agent wants pages on their page to display certain neighborhoods etc... You as a developer can use seo rets shortcodes etc to add them as a service (landing pages). Agent press works GREAT with SEO RETS. (pensacolarealestatesales.com). Agents can even use RETS in blogs and the rets feed will keep the blog up to date. If they do a blog today on foreclosures on the market, RETS will update the blog... forever to the most recent foreclosure. It won't leave old dead listings on the blog. Furthermore, the service comes with an easy blog in the wordpress blog area that lets agents add properties by mls, area, etc...
Call them, tell them Joseph gave you their number. Seorets.com
I hope you get on with them and have as great of an experience as I have had.
Joseph LeeMemberI am going to do some research on this IDX Platinum plugin. It looks like they are housing the page on their site, then doing a domain map to make it look as if the information is on your URL; which is okay as far as google is concerned. I am just wondering how they stop duplicate content. They can't 301 your webpage because they use the pages for all their clients.
Joseph LeeMemberDebating whether Diverse Solutions or IDXBroker/Express etc... is better about lead generation is pointless. They are both IDX. That is old technology. RETS is where lead conversion is at... When you click on a property on IDX you are lucky if you are on your domain. Furthermore, if you ARE on your domain you are in an iframe. There is NO seo value to IDX. RETS brings the listings to your site, thus you can rank on google with trulia, zillow, homes, realtor, etc...
I hate when I see agents get taken advantage of companies that sell IDX framed solutions. I am an agent and a developer. If you are an agent or developer and you buy/push that garbage... You are only hurting yourself. I have 100's of feeds in boards in NW Florida. My sites rank on google for the address of the home; which is HUGE.
It's called the long tail in seo. More buyers google the address of a house they passed on their way to work. That or the street name. IDX will never help you rank for these terms.
Go to ERA-LEGACY.com and see it for yourself. Click on search and when you see a property on the screen, look at the URL addresss. It's SEO optimized for google. Look at the <H1> tag in the code. It's SEO optimized... The title? Optimized...
Joseph LeeMemberEric, download the AGENTPRESS theme. It has a template in there for a landing page that deletes all the things you are trying to delete. Just copy the lines of code. I think they will be easy to pick out because they are practically named (as always).
February 13, 2013 at 4:55 pm in reply to: Unable to activate Genesis Latest Tweets Widget in Mindstream #20170Joseph LeeMemberYou might try uninstalling the plugin, and reinstalling it after you download a new one from this site.
Joseph LeeMemberI should have mentioned that SEORETS is not available in every board in the US. However, if an agent can get a broker to request the plugin they frequently move in to the agents board if they have 10-20 agents taht want the plugin.
You do by the way. My site ranks front page for over 1,000 local addresses. Drop IDX. That framed solution will get you zero results. RETS was developed by NAR years ago and never got fully utilized because it hurts ZILLOW, TRULIA, REALTOR.com, HOMES.com in the local search results. SEORETS was a RETS feed developed by a company that does seo for real estate companies.
My entire brokerage is SEO RETS. I am my broker's IT services lol
Joseph LeeMemberThis is a RETS feed from the multiple listing services. It's a wordpress plugin and can work on any wordpress site.
Era-Legacy.com is an example.
Joseph LeeMemberThat is a good question Eric. Then we could (if we wanted) copy/paste the code into a file.
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