Category Archives: IDX Best Practices
3 Effective Ways To Follow Up With New IDX Leads
Timeliness counts when you’re following up with new IDX registrants. You know, those prospective home buyers who have registered to use the IDX on your website. If you don’t follow up right away, you’ve lost the lead. On the other … Continue reading
10 Ways To Drive More Traffic To Your IDX Listings
So you’ve installed an IDX search product on your website. But now what? How do you work on driving more traffic to your individual IDX listings to get more people interested in properties that are for sale? After all, searching … Continue reading
4 Ways To Drive More Traffic To Your IDX Search Page
Getting 1,000 hits to your real estate blog/website is great. But you know what would be even better, getting 1,000 hits on your IDX search page specifically. Think about it this way… Where are you converting site visitors? On your … Continue reading
Using Custom Links To Create IDX Landing Pages
With dsSearchAgent, you can do more than just slap an IDX map search on your website. You can create custom search map pages that pre-filter by price, size, city, open houses, or any other number of combinations of MLS search … Continue reading
Stronger Calls To Action = More Registered Users
Every now and then I hear real estate agents say something to the effective of… People are coming to my website, but they’re not clicking on my IDX page to search for homes, or… I’m getting good traffic on my … Continue reading
How To Build a Lead Converting Real Estate Landing Page
Landing pages are an integral part of your website. If you’re using dsIDXpress, we make it real easy for you to create an effective landing page full with IDX data. Today, I thought I’d shoot a comprehensive tutorial on how … Continue reading
How To Use IDX Report Data To Connect With Buyers
People are visiting your website. Site traffic is up, time-on-site is looking good and you’re even getting inquiries for questions on specific properties. All good signs of a healthy home search experience via your real estate website. That’s good news! … Continue reading
5 Ways To Use dsIDXpress To Create Fresh New Content
There are essentially two ways to use dsIDXpress to create and upload MLS content to your real estate blog: Using Shortcodes Using our Link Structure Choose from a variety of widgets to display IDX data Today, I thought we’d hi-light … Continue reading
How Much Data Should You (or Will You) Restrict On Registration?
When we announced the release of dsSearchAgent v3.2 yesterday, one of the new features enabled is the ability to control lead capture by choosing which property detail fields visitors must be logged in to access. When someone’s browsing the mapping … Continue reading
Best Settings for Forced Registration?
Over on the Diverse Solutions Community Forum Michael Reilly asked: We just launched a brand new site at www.cedarparkhomelistings.com. We are driving traffic to this site using google PPC ads so I want to make sure I’m getting the most leads … Continue reading