Real Estate Webmasters Template Customizations

Hi Carolyn,

Thank you for the nice breakdown of your sites features.  The LEC's certainly rock.

I have a few questions about mentioned features:

1) What are the price range adjuster snippet?

2) What are the keyword snippet?

3) What is the added control panel search tools navigation?

Thanks,

Brian

Brian,

1. Here is an example of a city page with the price range adjuster snippet: http://www.discoverdavishomes.com/granite_bay.php

You can see that the default price range starts at $400,000 - and the price ranges can be set to whatever makes sense for that area.

2.  Keyword snippet - haven't used this one enough but here is a quick page: http://www.discoverdavishomes.com/streng.php

The keyword snippet could be used for golf courses, lake views whatever words can be found in the description of the listing - not completely accurate as in the above example there is only one home currently that is being found by the builder's name.

3.  If you look at any page of the site the first navagation section in the site is now called Search Tools - I expect that your LEC already has something like this, I know the LEC2 does - it is just not included in the default control panel.

Carolyn - great post...I've appreciated many of the custom mods. in DiscoverDavisHomes...thanks for pointing out some of the more nuanced features..."Keywords" is a great snippet btw .

Nice info. As a thought, you may want to consider mentioning the Control Panel and features it offers on the registration form page. 

Can't wait to see your LEC2 site for Sacramento.

Carolyn, thanks again for pointing out some of your sites features.

Drew that is a great idea. If I did that I would definitely get the registration snippet(s)  so I could modify the registration info on the fly.

Thanks everybody - keep pushing me to work on the Sacramento site- I need to get that one done.

Carolyn, once again you've opened my eyes to more money to give Morgan - LOL!  I love and want the keyword snippet!  Love your site and yes, we're all waiting for the Sacramento site! 

Wait a minute, I'm still learning snippets, but can we create a kw snippet ourselves or does REW have to do it?

Hi Judy - Unless my memory fails (and it does!), you have to have to have REW create the keyword snippet for you.  But as I remember it's a pretty quick job (I want to say an hour, maybe little less).  And 'though I've only used it a couple times so far, it can be incredibly powerful long tail tool IMO.  One example: in DC there are those who would want to search for a certain home by an architect's/builder's name (just a couple). So I want to create a page for each.  There's no field for "architectural/builder style" but most agents will note it in the comments.  Hope that helps..  

- Kevin  

Judy, Kevin is right - all of the extra snippets are ones I had REW create - I have not used the keyword one enough.  From what I understand the snippets are all different based on what is in the IDX feed - so something that REW made for me will likely not work for you.  Time for the snippets is not major - the open house was the longest - I think that was 2 hours and that changed what information was displayed on the page.

Carolyn,

Great post! I was looking for ideas on how to take my new LEC2 to the next level. The stuff that really peaks my interest: foreclosures/shortsales snippets, price range adjuster (not sure how to tell if I really need it though), keyword snippet (fantastic idea), bookmark us now button, FaceBook/Twitter links, customized print page, and registration changes (email only no separate password and required registration info is name, email and phone number). Wow, those are some really excellent enhancements.

What is the 301 redirect tool for? Also, not sure why you needed a separate foreclosure contact form. Can you explain that?

-Jolenta

P.S. Get working on that Sacramento site already! Have you seen what I did in six weeks? Over 100 snippets created on my own and almost 150 pages of new content. You can do it, woman!
 

Jolenta, you probably know this by now, but the 301 redirect tool lets you setup 301 redirects - to point the way for search engines or browsers who come looking for a page whose filename was changed (let's say your domain used to have a different site on it, with different file extensions, or you've deleted your "foreclosures.php" page in favour of "madison-foreclosures.php" and "nakoma-foreclosures.php" and want to redirect the "foreclosures.php" requests to "madison-foreclosures.php" ).

Carolyn, thanks as always for spreading the good word - not only on our behalf, but also in a way that is helpful for other people wanting to succeed as you have.