When you write a blog post and you forget to close with a Call To Action you leave readers and site visitors in a passive mode. You increase the likelihood that someone will quickly read through your content and move on. They won’t take action because you didn’t ask them to. Think about it… If you don’t call to your ... Read more +
Sometimes, your site visitors might find it useful to have a printable version of your blog posts and/or pages. This is particularly true if you’re publishing timely information about the local market, homes for sale or places to visit. It’s neat to know that you can print a clean, simple text document with all of the content without ... Read more +
With dsIDXpress you can load property search results and individual property details based on a relatively simple URL structure. The URL structure always starts with: /idx …so if your domain name is yourblog.com, the dsIDXpress “virtual” pages would always start with: yourblog.com/idx You can display search results from the MLS ... Read more +
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Diverse Solutions has been busy in Missouri this month! We just finished expanding our IDX services to include the feed from MARIS in St. Louis along with feeds from 4 other surrounding Realtor associations in Missouri. We’ve also finished work for IDX feeds from the Columbus Board in Ohio and the Manhattan Association in Kansas. Below is ... Read more +
One of the most common problems with most real estate websites is a lack of focus. In this video, we’re looking at a sample Home Search Page and I walk you through how removing elements, reworking a layout and writing some basic copy can bring more clarity and focus to your page to drive visitors exactly where you want them to go and take ... Read more +
As some of your know, we launched our new Community Forum last week (you can register Free here). We wanted to provide a space for you to ask questions and seek feedback not just from Diverse Solutions Staff, but from other members of the Diverse Solutions Client Family as well. Unlike our previous forum on Get Satisfaction that only housed one ... Read more +
Today’s post is all about finding creative ways to optimize your use of dsSearchAgent (our mapping IDX). Don’t just slap the IDX Search on your site, there’s tons of other ways that you can display MLS data and drive site visitors to your content. The goal is to get your site visitors interested, get them registered and ... Read more +
Today I’m excited to announce two new resources for the Diverse Solutions Community: A new Help Desk: helpdesk.diversesolutions.com A new Community Forum: forum.diversesolutions.com In addition to more webinars (including new dsIDXpress webinars), we wanted to provide you with access to an online training community that you can have access ... Read more +
We get a lot of questions in Support regarding dsIDXpress: How do I install the plugin? How do I use shortcodes to display MLS data in posts? How do I add multiple values to the link structure? Well, today I’m happy to announce that we’ll be hosting our first series of dsIDXpress webinars this week! To sign up, simply… Log ... Read more +