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IDX Broker Alternatives WordPress Real Estate Plugin

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IDX Broker Alternatives

IDX Broker alternatives for their WordPress Real Estate Plugin has plenty of competition, and has many comparable options to our own RETS PRO solution.
I’ll try my best to make a simple key comparison list of what we consider to be pros and cons versus our own WordPress Real Estate Plugin .

Main Obvious PROS:

  1. Price – Upfront cost is typically a few hundred dollars to get everything all setup and running.
  2. Setup – They’re going to be about 50% faster to get your site up and running the way you want it.
  3. Options – They’re going to have a few more options than we currently have – primarily CRM…but at additional cost.
  4. They manage the data and the changes to the RETS feed.
  5. Having someone hold your hand – that’s what your never ending monthly fees will cover for you.

But now for the CONS:

  1. Price – though cheaper up front, you will have spent way more with them after 1+Years than you would have with “our solution” and if you have more than (1) website then its NOT worth it to go with them.
  2. SEO – although they claim this and that – their data is NOT on your website and neither is the url + you can NOT do proper micro-data on your own key fields using schema.org. (what is micro-data Schema.org? never heard of it? ever heard of Real Estate Webmasters? They use micro data and so do we!) You also can’t create dynamic content using IDXB – SO – if SEO is important to you as it is to us then this alone would prevent us from using their solution. We have more SEO features/options than any other solution-period!
  3. Owning your data and having it reside in YOUR website without any monthly fees – not an option with them.
  4. Complete customization – If having someone tell you “NO” we can’t do that or “NO” that’s not an option means anything at all to you then just stop right now!  Aside from the  SEO limitations, the #1 complaint we hear is the limitations on maximizing your own creativity.

I could go on and on but I think its only important for me to point out the main differences. Trust me on this part, if you called me and told me you were doing only one website for a customer and you just wanted to get-in and get-out and get paid to put up a realtor site. Then I would highly recommend them over any other solution – BUT – if you told me that SEO and doing custom website options with the possibility of doing more than (1) website then I’d have to recommend our solution.

Looking for other IDX BROKER Alternatives? Join us in the forums for some lively debates with other developers that have previous experience with them.

RETS PRO Hosting Servers For WordPress Real Estate Sites

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Over the last few months we’ve been busy running promotionals and in the process we’ve added a lot of new host clients on our servers, but growing our hosting side of the business means that there was some additional work needing to get done.

Now that we are the primary hosting for our clients I thought I’d dive into some server security hardening over the weekend via mod_security tools and settings. The first thing I always do is slap in my http://www.projecthoneypot.org/home.php – api key and then turn on and configure (tweak) the process settings of some of the other tools/options – then when your done a simple restart of your httpd – DONE.

I mention all of this so that anyone else doing their own VPS should know some basics of running a non-managed server so I thought I’d add some MUST:

  1. First thing is to recompile apache with all of the proper server hosting requirements.
  2. Next to do is to install and configure a firewall – I use this one http://www.configserver.com/ (along with 3 of their other items as well).
  3. Next login and modify the server php.ini AND my.cnf file.
  4. Configure server backups for daily,weekly,monthly.
  5. Next thing I do is to log in to servers root CRON and I add in the ability to delete all domains+backups error+debug logs every night. (if you don’t do this then customers sites will grow MASSIVE log files that they don’t even know about that ultimately waste valuable server space. )
  6. Finally login and configure the mod_security tools and settings and be sure to add in your honeypot api.

That’s the “basics” of what’s needed to properly setup your own server or VPS – SO – unless you know what the freak you’re doing you really should let someone else handle it for you or pay for a “Managed” server or vps until you’re a DIY IT pro.

If you’d like to hire us to do your Server or VPS setup for you we charge 100 dollars to do the whole process and we only do Cpanel setups and installs.

Anyone needing the cheapest VPS Cpanel License here is the place to buy it and the code to enter so that you can get it for only 13 dollars per month.

Promo Codes:
“whtbcp30” for dedicated cPanel license, only $30.95!
                        — or —
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And as per my usual here is my own SEO efforts WordPress Real Estate Plugin for building WordPress Real Estate Sites.

WordPress Real Estate Plugins 2016

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The top WordPress Real Estate Plugin for 2016 will obviously be RETS PRO it’s not just functional as well as simple to make use of but it is the only real plugin you are able to own without having strings or fees attached.

This WordPress IDX plugin includes what you need to feature property listings on your own website. Users will be able to view and search the various realestate related data. Realestate details are displayed on the listings page. The integration is easy and guarantees a real estate focused listings experience Additionally, because this solution is built for WordPress, you have multiple possibilities for adding tens of thousands of free plugins and themes to your website as well.

RETS PRO is also the leading RETS Plugin which was originally created for Joomla and then launched as a WordPress Real Estate plugin called “WP Realty” in 2007. It’s important to note that their WordPress RETS Plugin isn’t encrypted and certainly nothing ever has to verify any type of license or api keys.

Many individuals are looking to find the best solutions for his or her real estate website problems. Perhaps the best known tools for building a real estate website includes WordPress, as it provides you with the best SEO capabilities you can ever use for your site. However, in order to maximize it, it is critical to work with the most effective WordPress real estate plugin.

With regards to functionality and being user friendly, RETS PRO is the very best WordPress IDX plugin brimming with most of the essential along with the advanced features you could ever hope for from a pay only once DIY system.

RETS PRO Coupons, Discounts, PROMO Codes

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RETS PRO Coupons, Discounts and Promo Codesimages

From time to time RETS PRO will offer various types of discounts on software or combo deals. Whenever we have any discounts, the information will always be located on our Pricing page.

If you have any questions or suggestions please contact RETS PRO via our contact page or phone# (888) 540-9666

And as always we are here to make sure that the 2016 Best WordPress Real Estate Plugin is still called RETS PRO in 2017 – so join us in the forums for even more free how-to’s.

RETSPRO version 3.0.4 update

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RETS PRO version 3.0.4 update:

We have posted a short list of items in our forums that we are working on completing for this next release scheduled for later next week.

We have been extremely busy  working with our developers and listening to our customers to make sure that the 2015 Best WordPress Real Estate Plugin 2016 is called “RETS PRO“. RETS PRO also wants to make sure that we will remain the 2016 best real estate plugin so we’ve recently begun talks to seek a partnership so that we can complete even  more new features!

 

 

WordPress Real Estate Hosting

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WordPress Real Estate Hosting

As of March 2nd 2015 –  RETS PRO will be include (1) year free of VPS hosting with the purchase of our WPR3x plugin.

We have partnered with another company to bring you the lowest prices for both VPS Hosting and Powerful Dedicated Servers.

Whats so special about this new offer? Did we mention that its free with the purchase of our plugin? Well how about performance issues? How does this sound;

DUAL INTEL XEON X5650 DEDICATED SERVER
A 24 core server for extreme-performance hosting.
WordPress Real Estate Hosting
  • Dual Intel Xeon X5650 24 Core Dedicated Processors
  • 48 GB DDR3 ECC Memory (upgradable to 72 GB)
  • 250 GB Enterprise SSD or 1 TB Hard Drive ( Standard )
  • 1 Gbps Burstable Port ( 30TB Transfer )
  • Dell DRAC Remote Management
  • SSD Hard Drives Standard

Starting From $160 Per Month and Comes With Cpanel already to go.

All of our servers will be built based on the hardware above (and customized for expansion) and all of our hosting includes 100% VPS/Cpanel control access as well as the ability to scale up or down as needed so that you are only paying for what you need.

If you’ve never hosted on a server using SSD then you will be extremely surprised at how much faster your site loads once you do. SSD is approximately 100 times faster than HDD/SATA drives and the advantages really stand out when dealing with lots Mysql data queries.

Even if you’re not interested in our WordPress Real Estate Plugin then you should at least take a look at our hosting plans which we will be posting online later in March.

WordPress Real Estate Solutions

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WordPress Real Estate Solutions

WordPress real estate solutions seem to be everywhere these days but finding one that you can actually buy and own the code may be a little harder to find. While all of the real estate solutions slug it out with each other on who is going to offer you the lowest cost-per-site system RETS PRO™ has broken through all of that by offering you a Pay-Once solution that allows you unlimited sites….thats right “Unlimited” with no per-site-cost.  RETS PRO™ is also the only wordpress real estate solutions that you can buy that is guaranteed to work with all RETS providers in North America including CREA, TREB, CARETS etc.

 

If you would like more information, or would like to see some live examples, please give us a call and we will be happy to take the time to make sure that you are heading in the right direction, even if that means sending you to someone else’s solution. We take pride in being some of the most knowledgeable real estate website developers out there and you should take advantage of our 11+ years of our active real estate software development experience so that we can possibly save you time, headaches and money. – Cheers –