Blogsites Focusing on the Community with Diverse Solutions IDX MLS Search
by Team Realivent
We’ve been working on a few new community blogsites with lots of moving parts. Using Wordpress to build real estate sites is a growing trend and we’re seeing demand for more and more functionality to make them full fledged marketing and business management systems. 1. Community/Featured Highlight boxes: This section can also be used for a personal introductory video or video tours of homes. The same blogsite design here uses this area for listings display, stats graphs, IDX search , video news, trends, and local area maps. This community highlight section is like the Quick Links of our Featured Listings pages. 2. Featured Listings As mentioned previously, all of our blogsites come with native Featured Listings application for listings management and marketing. In this particular case Mike has a whopping 126 listings on his site and of course if you click through to any of the listings, you get all the relevant information around that particular property. 3. Featured Communities Section Loading up new communities is easy here. Blog about each community and fill them with details. When someone clicks on one of the communities , they’re taken directly to all the details that you’ve provided for that community. Your site visitors will feel like you are indeed the area expert with so much info that is presented in such a way that it is extremely easy to navigate. 4. Integrated IDX from Diverse Solutions So you’ve got blog posts, you’ve got photos and pictures of the community, and lead-gen forms, but wait, that’s not enough - your community blogsite wouldn’t be complete without a comprehensive listings search engine. We’ve integrated many types of IDX solutions on different sites and recently found a very slick solution by Diverse Solutions. Their latest dsSearch Agent product is a true winner! Several key features makes this system one of the best out there: 1. Easy slider search tools allowing for quick searches So Here’s the Community Blogsite FeatureSet Summary - Highlight Box for recent news, trends, stats, listings and blog posts Contact us for more information.
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In this site, Mike Rozell of Executive Real Estate uses a highlight box to feature select homes for sale.
As many as 5 features/highlights can be added here and can be rotated as needed.
2. Back end quick link functions which allow you to pre-populate the search page with results from a predetermined area and price range
3. Embeddable widgets and RSS links which enables you to push your listings to multiple sites
4. Ability to add the search functionality on multiple sites. So if you have 5 community sites, 10 property sites, and 1 corporate site, you can now have IDX search on all of them
- Native Featured listings and Featured communities management allowing for quick access to the most relevant information
- IDX Search by Diverse Solutions
- Lead-gen forms and widgets
- Ability to add additional on-demand sites
- All-in-One SEO
- Google Analytics and tons of other plugins
- Ability to add community members and business networks
- and much , much, more…
Wow Ken and Bhavin,I’ve been so busy posting and helping my clients that I haven’t checked out Realivent’s blog lately. Looks like your company is growing exponentially. From my math geek husband: is your exponent greater than 2? Look forward to talking with you soon about even greater resources for my site visitors and clients. I may be ready for greater home search capabilities. Congrats!
March 9th, 2008 at 10:13 amHi Marian, thanks for noticing. Yes, depends on your starting point, the exponent can be much greater than 2
We also noticed your blog readership is also growing fast, keep up the fantastic writing!
March 10th, 2008 at 10:29 am[…] - Fully featured blogging , by using Wordpress as the base of the community sites, the sites will have no limitations as to the power of blogging here - Listings - a real estate community site wouldn’t be complete wtihout listings, either IDX solutions or native listings applications, widgets or a combination of the two can be used with property specific resources - Advertising mechanism , there’s lots of new targeted advertising platforms out there including Tumri, Google, and many others More novel ways of advertising can also be applied such as ads that are determined by the market value. For example, an ad space can show market values upon hover and new advertisers can bid on what how much and when the ads are displayed. These ads would be based on what the public will pay to advertise on your site and will be determined by the market. - Media - effortlessly showcasing/sharing your latest videos, personal marketing as well as local area videos - Mapping - local area reviews, amenities, shopping - Lead generation plugins and widgets -Social network - an agent’s network can follow the agent with information about past business dealings, testimonials, and essential business references, and sites will be networked with one another -Powerful backbend management - manage listings and listing syndication, blog syndication, flyers, virtual tours, print media, and Eblogletters all in one location […]
March 13th, 2008 at 8:46 amI just installed word press to experiments with my mortgage site.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:46 pmIf you need help, please let us know.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:13 pm