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 based on a number of different link structures.
(For more on Link Structures, read: How To Use the Link Structure for Loading MLS Content)
Create a Featured Listings Page:
Your site navigation should consist of a couple of primary pages:
- Home
- About
- Home Search
- Featured Listings
- Contact
In the case of your “Featured Listings”, dsIDXpress makes it pretty easy to display the listings associated with your Agent ID and/or Office ID. Your link structure would be something like:
yourblog.com/idx/?idx-q-ListingAgentID=12345
yourblog.com/idx/?idx-q-ListingOfficeID=6789
**Note: To properly use this, you need to contact Customer Support to have us add your Agent ID & Office ID to your Account. Once that’s done, just punch in your correct Agent/Office ID on each parameter and you should be all set.
You can set up a “Featured Listings” page and start driving traffic to it in no time!
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Sadly we had to turn ours off – when people would sign in or request a showing the lead went into a black hole – and no one could fix it – other than that it was a great feature for SEO
@Malita: What do you mean? When a visitors fills out/submits a contact form, that lead should have been dropping into one of your Contact Groups AND you should have been receiving an email. Did that not happen in this case?
@Ricardo, you’re right…it used to work just that way but all of a sudden we weren’t getting anything- so we tested it out and found out leads were going in but nothing was being reported to us. So we went round and round with support and finally just pulled the plug – they swear they can fix it so we are trying it out once again but on a subdomain this time.
@Malita: Hmm… I’m not sure what the problem is (or was). If you do enable that page again, try this: http://helpdesk.diversesolutions.com/ds-agentreach/emails-not-being-delivered Whitelist the delivery emails in your address-book to make sure they’re getting delivered properly.
Let me know if that works!
Thanks Ricardo, i’ll pass it along – its most likely an issue with the Round Robin system – we had this on the company site and leads went out to all agents in lead rotation
My firm has more than one office. Is there a way to join all of our Offices’ listings on one featured listing page?
Hey Bob,
Yes, you should be able to. You’re URL should look something like this:
yourblog.com/idx/?idx-q-ListingOfficeID=1234&idx-q-ListingOfficeID=5678&idx-q-ListingOfficeID=8910
What you’re essentially doing is specifying multiple values (in this case, multiple Office ID’s). To do so, you need to insert ankle brackets in between each ID number.
Here’s a tutorial on our Help Desk for your reference as well:
http://helpdesk.diversesolutions.com/ds-idxpress/how-to-specify-multilple-values-using-the-dsidxpress-link-structure
Let me know if that works and if you have any questions I can help answer!
Thanks Ricardo
That worked perfectly.
For anyone that comes along and reads this later the following is the proper syntax to get this to work:
yourblog.com/idx/?idx-q-ListingOfficeID=1234&idx-q-ListingOfficeID=5678&idx-q-ListingOfficeID=8910
If you don’t use the angle brackets indexing, the results page will only display results for the last value specified.
@Bob: Awesome, happy to hear it, glad that worked! Let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with 🙂
Maybe I’m doing something wrong? My goal is to at very lease create a featured listings page. I tried this link structure, but I am getting an error:
http://www.austinhomeshop.com/idx/?idx-q-zip=78613
Am I missing something?
Hey Israel,
Do: http://www.austinhomeshop.com/idx/zip/78613
That should get you up and running!
Thanks Ricardo, that worked great. How would I format this to list property listed by me or my office?
Hmm… It should be something like: yourblog.com/idx/?idx-q-ListingAgentID=12345 or for Office I’d do: yourblog.com/idx/?idx-q-ListingOfficeID=12345
Of course replace the digits with the appropriate Agent and Office ID.
Our Help Desk should have the correct list of parameters should those not work:
http://helpdesk.diversesolutions.com
Look for dsIDXpress tutorials and the list of link structure parameters.
Hope that helps for now 🙂
I’ve only had my dsIDX for 2 weeks and the results have been way beyond my wildest expectations. Traffic and time on the sight have doubled and my bounce is getting lower. I even had 2 leads captured. I’m still building out pages but I also moved from the sixth page of google to the 3rd page. I highly recommend the product.
Ricardo- Need some help. We are trying to get the listings to post directly to the website (wordpress agent theme), as opposed to the blog. Having trouble formatting the images and making sure they post to that specific area on the site. Is there specific html code to do that?
Mark