In an announcement made on the Google Developers’ blog, they recently announced changes to their terms of use for the free map API that many IDX Vendors and Brokers are using. Google announced that they will begin delivering advertising inside map imagery. They will also…

From the Syndication To Real Estate portals PDF paper from Clariety Consulting after showing examples of Trulia, Zillow, and Yahoo! promoting other agents over the listing agent on listing detail pages: Trulia, YAHOO!, Zillow and others would claim that their ad treatments are no different…

Speaking of mobile marketing (the topic of tonight’s #retechchat 90 minutes from now), I just got the following email from Diverse Solutions: Diverse Solutions is excited to announce our new mobile IDX solution!  Combining the search and lead capture features of our IDX products into…

Today Flexmls has taken its IDX WordPress plugin out of beta and it is now available for purchase and download. I have been beta testing the plugin for a few weeks and found it works well. There is a $240 per year annual fee for…

Congrats to my good friends over at Diverse Solutions for releasing dsSearchAgent 3.0! For current Diverse Solutions clients, you’re probably already aware dsSearchAgent 3.0 was released yesterday from the email that was sent out yesterday. However, for agents out there on another IDX platform or…

I’m really happy to say that the version 3 beta of the Local Market Explorer WordPress plugin is finally available for everyone to try out. For those who don’t know what Local Market Explorer is, it’s a way to embed local area info from Zillow,…

There is a lot of buzz out there about how great it is to get property listings from your IDX on your site indexed. There are some that say it brings a great benefit for SEO and others that think it is more important because…

“This is not my Locker” I know it is inevitable that I will be asked (perhaps 100’s of times) “What did you learn from Inman Connect SF this week”? or “What was the most interesting thing you learned at Inman Connect SF”? or some variation…

When Eric Bryant wrote the original Kiss Your “RSS” Good-bye, he was referring to RSS feeds being a thing of the past as social networking sites like Twitter provided a filter for really good articles, “Kinda like a ‘Human Aggregator’”. I thought this was a…

Today’s feature: An interview with Real Estate Webmasters CEO Morgan Carey about the SEO benefits of indexable IDX.  He reveals hard data on the resulting increased traffic, and the ability of individual agents to compete in the elusive quest for search results. There’s been a…