Moving to a new web host or upgrading.

WordPress real estate websites are unique in the fact that they typically require some sort of 3rd party RETS plugin. When you choose a 3rd party RETS software to integrate into your website you should always have that company do all of their software/plugin setup for you instead of hiring someone else to do it.

One of the “Biggest Issues” you will probably encounter when building out your first WordPress real estate site is that you will probably forget to treat it the same way a general contractor would if he were building you your dream home. What does that mean?

If you are a General Contractor the first thing you do is line up your subcontractors to get their bids and schedules – why? because each subcontractor is a pro at their job – they know their trade and their product inside and out. If you hire some friend, web-dev or seo company then chances are they are only professionals at what they know or what they have previously used/built and are not going to know how to code or how xyz is compared to abc or even how to setup either one since they didn’t develop either one and or have never even actually used/worked with them.

Ever week we get calls or support tickets from some “new” web developer that has now taken over updating or moving someones website etc. The website owner, typically Broker or Agent has now hired yet another 3rd party seo or web designer person/firm who swears they can “do-it-all” when in-fact they typically can’t do half of what they claim in the first place. Typically the minute that they move the site, to yet another hosting provider or try to switch out to some other “better” theme, they start calling us for help.

The point that I’m trying to make here is “why would you ever hire the plumber to do the roof?” Sure he might be able to eventually get it done but its never going to get done as fast or as good as what a professional roofer would do and in the long run its always going to end up costing you more time and money every single time.

Remember to plan you project accordingly and you will end up with a great custom website built your-way via the best subcontractors available…..or …you may end up with a lot of frustration, wasted time and money.

Cheers!

Ready To Take Your Real Estate Website To The Next Level?

All NEW video series to Take Your Real Estate Site To The NEXT LEVEL!

Free DIY Video access with any purchase.

New – Automated SEO videos
New – X2CRM integration videos
More New How-to Videos Added Weekly! *
Introducing our brand new DIY video series on all of the basics needed to take your Real Estate site to the next level!
We will teach you not only “how” but also “why” you need to follow this video series.
Examples Topics:

  • Auto SEO content.
  • Auto index thousands of pages.
  • Auto index your Pre-Filtered, Preferred listings.
  • Plugins needed – and how to set them up properly.
  • X2CRM – How-to video playlist series.
  • Why X2CRM? (100% FREE Awesomeness that’s better than 98% of anyone else’s paid-for CRM)
If you’ve already reviewed our new videos above and decided that you would just rather hire us to do it all for you – we’ve got you covered!
Below are “basic setup and configuration” prices – but what if want even more? – we also do custom request and bill out hourly per request.
 
Basic X2CRM Setup: ($299)
  • We setup both gravityform plugins & tie-in up to (2) forms i.e “Listing Info Request”, our “Registration” etc. ()
  • We setup our example as shown in our video of the basic WorkFlow to handle the incoming leads.
  • We setup the Fingerprint and the Web Tracking code into your site.
  • We setup the email tracking code allowing you to track all opens and clicks for listing alerts etc.
  • We include up to (2) hours of additional “setups/tutorials/help” that should cover any remaining basic-setup items.
NOTE* As a web developer, If you were to try to DIY all of this package “from scratch” you should expect to spend about 6 to 8 hrs to complete. If you’re Not a full time web developer, but still DIY-techy – then you should expect that all of this will probably take you about 10 to 20 hrs.
 
Basic Auto SEO Setup: ($999)
(*You will need to buy min-1 to 3 plugins if doing everything – min $30 and both of the others are “optional” and $50 each)
  • We include (1) Dynamic Master “city/area” Page edited to match your data and saved as a “Draft” page and or as a template file.
  • We setup (1) each – City/Area Page, Matched (up-to-6) Categories, Community/Condo w/RSS example.
  • We create a custom RSS template to match your project (not to exceed what’s shown in our video examples – nothing crazy – RSS validation is tough!)
  • We setup and configure all of plugins above to match your project as seen in the videos.
  • We setup social media auto-posting – up to (5) Social media accounts, but require you to provide all needed social media api/keys and or be willing to grant us access to do it for you.
  • We will create custom dynamic content section for listing details page.
  • We setup pro cache plugins and settings.
  • We get your homepage to load in 2 to 4 seconds max and scores A+ (90+) PageSpeed and B+ (80+) YSlow on gtmetrix.com
  • We create/add custom filtered and Dynamic Listings Sitemap footer link.
NOTE* As a web developer, If you were to try to DIY all of this package “from scratch” you should expect to spend about 30 to 40 hrs to complete. If you’re Not a full time web developer, but still DIY-techy – then you should expect that all of this will probably take you about 40 to 60 hrs.
*client videos are only viewable from within our client area.
So ask yourself, why rent when you can own the best wordpress real estate plugin 2019?
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Digital Marketing With Social Media

Automated SEO for Real Estate Websites

Introducing “Automated SEO with RETS PRO” Step-By-Step How-To video tutorials for all RETS PRO customers.

We’ve just completed a new 6-video playlist that covers all of the basic how-to’s for the following:

Automatically –
  1. Create new custom blog post for any “New Listings” that you have setup/targeted (Community, Condos, Office Listings etc etc.)
2. Push blog post to all of your specified social media accounts….lots of custom options as well.
3. You can even automatically grab other RSS feeds that are keyword matched for you to rewrite/tweak and schedule for future posting dates.

Want even more?
How about how to auto creating hundreds of City Pages?
We can even show you how to auto create hundreds of pages that are all generated with all custom shortcodes and spun boilerplate content! All created and set to “Draft Mode” until you have tweaked and scheduled them for future publish dates – think “dripping in your cornerstone SEO content” months ahead of time!

What You Gain

  • Shows potential customers that you are actively posting new content and social media – even while you’re sleeping or out selling RE!
  • Show SERPS that you are actively posting new content that will help your sites pages climb to page #1 of the search engines.
  • Auto SEO targeting of specific Communities, Condo Buildings etc – Helps to Auto-Rank for these niche SEO phrases you’re trying to rank.
  • Distinguish yourself as an active SEO/SEM marketer via new social media postings with your clients and team members
  • Practical SEO/SEM plans for implementing and managing your business’s social media strategy.
  • Automated SEO Options that are NOT available via any other solution!

Let us show you how you can now do “Auto SEO” complete with social media marketing for real estate. We’re SEO professionals that can show you how to develop automated SEO methods along with social media. We combine both resources into a SEO/SEM marketing mix needed in order to rapidly rank.

Have questions or want a quick tour?
Call – (888)-540-9666

Best WordPress IDX RETS Plugin 2019

New WordPress Real Estate Plugins

Seems like every few months we see new Real Estate Plugins popping up, but none of them include a “Pay Only Once” option.

When we started selling our first version back in 2009, we were then the First and “Only” Solution to not only offer a pay-once plugin years before anyone else but one that you could actually build out your very own custom website with since it’s also open php code (non-encrypted). Not a lot has changed since then, other than a couple companies that have come along to try to now catch up to us with their own inferior versions.

Everyday we get people that call us to ask about our features and options compared to some new xyz product – the simple answer is that we have built the kitchen sink and it’s up to you to now pour in all of your own features. In other words the plugins features are now only limited by your own imagination, skills or budget. We have already built out all of the core function/features needed to then be expanded upon by you or your programmer/developer.

If you are in currently seeking the best wordpress real estate plugins then give us a quick call so that we can give you a live backend screenshare of our real estate plugin to answer any questions you may have before making a decision. We are a Florida-USA based company and would love to show you all of our New Automated SEO options as well as address any questions you may have.

In the meantime we are offering a FREE license upgrade all month this month (June-2019) So anyone wanting to buy a $999 single site license you will automatically get upgraded to the $1999 +License that includes unlimited subdomains and MU compatibilities. Note* If you buy the $1999 +License you will automatically get upgraded to our Unlimited Developers License valued at $2999.

Give us a call @ 866-540-9666
Skype = RETS PRO

Google Maps Geocode Plugin | RETS PRO Geocode Module

For many years the Google Maps API never required any form of credit cards or payment arrangements, but that changed not to long ago.

With the New requirement to put up a Credit Card it made things A-LOT-MORE complicated for “non-techy” website owners that need to Geocode a lot of addresses for their real estate websites. Instead of just know that you would get x-number of geocodes done per 24 hrs (2500) was great! – but – no more.

Now you have to enter daily quotas so that you do not exceed your free monthly “pre-credit” of $200 dollars. Not only that but every single thing has been broken down to a per api parse such as “did customer use your drag and drop on your maps and then use street view and “places” etc etc. All to the point where managing your own RE websites for average agents trying to do a DIY Real Estate Solution has become even harder for newbies.

We have just completed a new “How-to-gecode” video to walk you through all of the needed steps of both Setting Up Your Google Maps API – to How to Geocode with RETS PRO’s Geocode Module. Be sure to check both of those links to get you guys through all of the How-To’s without getting hammered by huge Google Maps bill for not paying attention.

To make things even easier for our customers we’re adding in a new “max-limit” setting to prevent the cron from running any more than what you set. Hopefully this should save everyone a ton of time and possibly some “oops” money.

And in case you’re reading this and wondering what we recommend setting the geocode limit/quota to?
Well if your Google pre-credit = $200 and then their monthly calculations says that = to 40,000 geocoded Per-Month.

Divide that by 30 and you will get 1,333.33 per-day.  Since you would typically never have more than a few hundred to maybe just over 1000 new listings being added to your RETS feed in a 24-hr period – but you need to also get all of the rest of the listings geocoded due to this maybe being a “new-install” then we would recommend going with setting limit/quota to a maximum of “1200” per day via your cron job.

The good news though for those that are located in the USA because you can pre-run the free Tiger geocode service with our solution and it will geocode approximately 75-85% of all the listings – only minor note though, the pins are placed on the side of the street instead of like google does it where it’s located over the center of the actual building/lot – but its thousands of “free” geocodes that are going to be on your site “today”. Then we typically switch right over to google and then let it run its daily limit for the rest of the 15-25% of listings that were not coded by Tiger.

Cheers –
RETS PRO.

Get Your Habits in Line; Get Your Business to Thrive |

Get Your Habits in Line and you will Get Your Business to Thrive!

Results is a byproduct of a lot of points. Even though some say it boils down to luck and timing, the reality is that it is significantly less a matter of likelihood than it is of action. Your day-to-day habits figure out if you will obtain your ambitions and lead a thriving organization. That is why it is so crucial to create habits that are conducive to accomplishment.

Laying the Groundwork
How do you create great habits? The foundation begins with mindset. Leadership specialist John Maxwell after mentioned, “Nothing will influence your life much more than altering your pondering.” Your thoughts figure out your level of achievement that is, if you assume positively and think in your expertise, your possibilities of accomplishment are exponentially larger than somebody who doubts their worth.

Subsequent, what motivates you? You are much more probably to adopt productive habits if an underlying mission drives them. Believe about what inspires you and your objective. When you have these points in thoughts, it is simpler to do the activities you have to have to do every day in order to obtain the ambitions you have set for your organization.

Preserve in thoughts that what you are motivated by will adjust as you get much more expertise as an agent and businessperson. Verify in periodically, in particular if you are feeling unmotivated, to assess and reassess what truly gets you up in the morning.

Practice Tends to make Excellent
Good pondering and motivation imply absolutely nothing if you are not placing in the perform and carrying out the activities that drive your organization. Even though this incorporates performing proactive lead generation activities just about every day, it also incorporates sharpening your expertise so that you can serve your consumers much better.

For a lot of agents, the courses taken to earn and sustain their actual estate license are adequate. But when these classes present common info about actual estate, they may well not give you the understanding and tools you have to have to lead a productive actual estate business—one that can climate any marketplace. How can you remain on the cutting edge?

Instruction – Out there each in-particular person and on the net, it is simpler than ever to hone your basic expertise and make new ones. You will not only find out to serve your consumers much better, but you will also find out how to run your organization much more effectively. Instruction ought to go beyond what you are essential to know about the business and delve into how to generate a strong referral-primarily based organization.

Seminars – If you want to succeed, surround your self with productive persons. Following all, who you commit time with determines your attitude and your altitude in organization. Seminars present the chance to network with other higher achievers when also sharpening your expertise.

Books and audiobooks – You can find out a lot from the experiences of other individuals. Reading books by and about productive organization leaders—even these outdoors of the actual estate industry—provides insight into what it requires to turn into a higher-level specialist. If you can not obtain the time to study, turn your vehicle into a mobile classroom and listen to audiobooks.

Podcasts – For a speedy dose of motivation, listen to inspirational or organization-oriented podcasts. You can discover anyplace: in your vehicle, at the health club, for the duration of a stroll at lunch—the list goes on and on. Subscribe to your favorites and save episodes you want to listen to once again.

These are just a handful of of the approaches that can assistance you turn into a higher-level actual estate specialist.

Create habits with these techniques, and you can be certain you will be productive.

Realtyna Alternatives | WordPress Real Estate Plugin

Realtyna Alternatives

*SEE NEW UPDATE BELOW

Several times a month we get calls asking us what are the key differences between our RETS PRO WordPress Real Estate Plugin and the Realtyna solution.

So let me point out the obvious key Realtyna Alternative differences that set us apart:

  1. Most import key difference (License Branding Limitations) –
    (We) offer 3 options – Basic License bound to single domain @ 999 that includes ALL add-on modules. Basic+Plus License bound to single domain but unlimited MU and subdomains @ 1999 or our Developers License bound only to the IP address @ 2999
    (They) “Per-Site/domain-License” with a license key that must be validated.
    **UPDATE – They have “changed” their license policy on 04-26-2017 …so you’ll need to call them to verify what they have in place now – but either way we have confirmed that they still do not offer any “non-license-keyed” versions as of this update made here on 4-28-2017.
  2. (We) also offer Additional site license keys that can be purchased at $499 each.  All our add-on modules can be used on unlimited sites. (We) Also allow a Basic License owner the ability to upgrade to an Unlimited Use Developers License at any time and we will deduct the originally purchased base price from the upgrade cost so no penalty for starting with our basic and then upgrading later if you decide to upgrade.
    (They) call them to ask them how much they charge for more than one site license.
    **UPDATE – They have “changed” their license policy on 04-26-2017 …so you’ll need to call them to verify what they have in place now.
  3. (We) are a SEO first company aimed at providing Professional Developers/Programmers looking for a “Limitless Expandable Software Solution” with more SEO goodies than any other software out there.
    (They) well….If You’re a SEO guru then call them and then call us and decide for yourself who’s solution has the most SEO options.
  4. (We) have the ability to do Commercial applications such as running hundreds of websites off a single db, joining multiple db’s into a large master db, and also hot-linking listing images from a media server as opposed to being forced to only downloading them which requires a dedicated server or VPS.
    (They) if you want anything mentioned above then you’d better call them first to confirm with them that they can deliver your requirements.
  5. (We) have been actively developing RETS data since 2003 – Our RETS script works with 100% of all RETS providers right out of the box – period!
    (They) ? Call them.

I hope this outlines the basic “key differences” of our Realtyna alternative. If you would still like more information about our WordPress Real Estate Plugin, just give us a call and we’ll be happy to give you all the information you need to get you on the right path with your project.

– Cheers –

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**UPDATE – February – 2018
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We have just reviewed the latest version of Realtyna PRO version that has a fully functioning MLS addon as well as their own WordPress theme called WPL28 and here’s the general opinion on what makes us different in one word – “Options“.

If you are looking for something that gives you TONS of customization options then all we have to say about that is to Contact Them and let them give you a Full 100% Complete Sales Pitch with Live Screen Share etc….. then be sure to ask to have these main items answered and let them show you how you would go about implementing any of this yourself – (yourself) – being the key-word here.

Customization –

  1. How do you do any CUSTOM changes to any of the plugin templates – say I wanted to change or add something, where and how is that done?
  2. If I make any custom template changes/edits to the plugins (listings templates) will they be overwritten on updates?
  3. How difficult would it be to create my own custom designed layouts for my Advanced Search Forms for my site?
  4. Does your Search Forms have options to allow them to auto-populate data from database AND or autosuggest as I type?
  5. How do I add-in any (statistical-data) by combining RETS fields into my pages or post? ……and without using a 3rd party to do it.
  6. How easy is it to create polygon drawn area maps to include with my featured listings?
  7. How easy is it to fully integrate the plugins RETS data into other themes while using that themes own html/css? in other words “seamless integration”
  8. Just how much can you do with their ShortCode builder to insert Custom Templates/Features/Statistics into Page/Post/Widget?

SEO –

  1. How easy is it to modify plugin Listings-Templates to include schema.org structured data wrappers around each individual RETS field(s) for Best SEO Practices? – In other words, if you can’t easily open up a template that contains listing data and custom modify this then you’re SEO handicapped.
  2. How would I go about custom editing templates to include Additional Dynamically Generated SEO Content Within Listing Details – yeah this is also HUGE for those of us who actually DO SEO for a living and is one of the main things WE built into our system years ago.
  3. How much control do I have over the downloaded listing images? can I set min/max size and SEO compression quality? Can I opt to also hotlink them from a separate media server location?
  4. Are the included plugin listing templates AMP ready/compatible?
  5. How does the plugin handle Yoast SEO canonical urls on the Listing Details pages?

RETS data mapping –

  1. Is this something that can I can handle myself or do I always need to rely on someone else to make changes/updates?
  2. Is it Possible to Combine (2) or more Different RETS providers into the Same Database? and if so how are images handled when the first RETS requires media url format and the other requires Download Only? – For Example, California RETS (CARETS) doesn’t allow for Downloaded Images but CLAW does.
  3. How are fields that say Pool: Y/N but produce 0/1 data outputs handled? – no one wants to see Pool: “0 or 1” on the details page
  4. How are number formats and Price formats handled per field and how easy is it to override with changes?
  5. How are listings Lat/Long GEO-Coded if they are not already provided by the Data Provider? if only by Google then will I have to wait up to 10-days to complete 25k listings?

Summary –

After you get a full backend tour of their product and answers to questions above – Give US a Call (888) 540-9666 – so that we can then show you a side-by-side product comparison so that you can make your own “informed” decision as to what product suits your needs for your own Website Project.

 

Cheers –

WordPress Real Estate Plugin | Multi RETS Data Merge | Multi Office

Multi RETS Data Merge | Multi Office

This is a RE/MAX Multi RETS Data Merge, Multi Office site that we are currently building out with our WordPress Real Estate Plugin. Beautiful, large scale photos are just one of the highlights of the site. The RE/MAX  Sea to Sky franchise is out of the Vancouver, Canada area with 3 office locations including one in the stunning ski resort area of Whistler, BC. The broker has a vibrant and long standing blog that we will incorporate into her main site / landing page and then break the site down into three distinctive sites per office location, along with distinctive Agent Rosters, Featured Listings, Area Information, and other pertinent details. The main site will also include the capability of searching for property throughout all three markets with a single data base merge.

This is being built on the WordPress MU frame so that the broker can offer all of her agents their own distinct websites using the integrated RETS data via subdomains or the agent template site can be copied onto an agent’s own independent domain. Our WordPress Real Estate Plugin allows data to be pushed to any site via the broker’s RETS credentials. This is a great marketing tool for brokers and agents. All of this is available using our Developer License with Broker Build Out. 

WordPress Real Estate Plugin | Multi RETS Data Merge

Multi RETS Data Merge | 5 Major Markets


This project has been a real test for our WordPress Real Estate Plugin and our Multi Rets Data Merge capabilities. We’re calling it “the Mother of All Data Feed Projects.” Several month’s ago, this client approached us with a request for a site build-out that merged 5 major market RETS feeds across Texas into a single database. In addition, they wanted to incorporate some slick statistical information for communities, neighborhoods, areas of interest and more. They also wanted to incorporate sold data, which is only available from a couple of the RETS providers. They are a unique brokerage who obviously handles transactions statewide. They have agents statewide working from virtual offices so they needed WordPress MU capabilities as well along with Agent Site Templates so their agents can have their own sites with all of the aforementioned features. And to top it all off, they were looking for an alternative to a Real Estate Webmasters site they had seen (plus the merged data feed and other extras) for a price they could actually afford.

We’re not going to lie, it’s been a bear. A long haul…several months to be exact, a bit stressful, some high emotions, and a ridiculous amount of coffee. In order for this site to run smoothly and efficiently, it had to be built on our 4x version…which was still under development so the project took much longer than it would have if our 4x version had already been complete. It has now been about 5 months since we received their RETS credentials from all of the markets and we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. 4x is almost out of beta. Data feeds are merged. Statistical data can be displayed using polygon map draw tools and our customized shortcode. Programmers are tweaking the customized map search and we are looking forward to a final punch list soon. We’re anxious to see the final project and looking forward to showing off some of the exciting new, custom features.