Picture Paste to the Rescue! If you’re using WordPress and trying to do frequent and informative posts to build SEO and provide content for your site visitors, you’re probably doing a lot of image insertion as well. It’s a fact that images enhance the visitor experience, so photos or screen shots always make a post a little ... Read more +
You’re pretty proud of your WordPress real estate site. You’re regularly blogging and posting new articles, and you’re using the dsIDXPress plugin to place IDX search in the sidebar of your pages. It’s a great combination: interesting site content along with search functions that allow your visitors to browse the MLS and... Read more +
With dsIDXpress (our WordPress IDX plugin), you can load property search results on a post or page with a relatively simple URL structure. The URL structure always starts with /idx. So if you’re domain name is johndoerealestate.com, the dsIDXpress “virtual” pages would always start with johndoerealestate.com/idx. From there, ... Read more +
Most people place an IDX map search on a page of their site with a url structure that looks something like the following: yoursite.com/search-for-homes yoursite.com/home-search yoursite.com/search-phoenix-homes-for-sale yoursite.com/mls-home-search …and dozens of other potential variations. Well, when a new user registers to use the IDX ... Read more +
What if you could create a landing page for each of the various communities you specialize in and set-up an email opt-in form to broadcast all of the latest listings to new subscribers, daily. The message would say something like: Hey Ricardo, Here’s a list of all of the new homes for sale in Irvine for today. Let me know if there’s ... Read more +
Note: This process only work if you subscribe to both dsSearchAgent and dsIDXpress. In a previous post, we showed you how to use dsIDXpress’ custom link-structure to create a community landing page. It involved building out various link-structures using several different parameters for dsIDXpress. Well, there’s an easier way to create ... Read more +
One of the primary features of dsSearchAgent is the ability to receive IDX email alerts. All users who have a saved search will automatically receive daily emails with new and updated listings from the MLS IDX feed that match their criteria. How It Works: Once a user registers as an “IDX user,” they can perform any search that they ... Read more +
Custom Menus is a feature that allows you to customize your WordPress navigation menu. This feature allows you to: Change the order of your pages, Nest pages so that you can create sub-menus (to create a drop-down list of neighborhoods for example), Display posts on multiple pages by creating category pages, and You can add posts and custom... Read more +
Today I wanted to show you how to put your blog on the kindle. Why? Exposure of course. To get started, simply go to kindlepublishing.amazon.com and sign up for a free account. Provide them with your blog’s URL, add a screenshot of your homepage and click “Go.” The Kindle Team will take it from there. They’ll review your ... Read more +
dsIDXpress is our IDX WordPress plugin and as many clients can attest, it’s a great tool that assists you in gaining higher rankings in search engines. However, we’ve often been asked the question: “Why are so many of dsIDXpress pages returning 404 errors and can this be resolved?” Which brings us to today’s ... Read more +