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I thought I would outline our custom IDX process, as well as some limitations with data feeds, in the hopes to clarify some misconceptions and also hopefully address some points of frustration for certain IDX users.

Lets start at the beginning, the IDX feed

When a new customer signs up to have Real Estate Webmasters develop a custom IDX for them, the first thing we must do is gain access to the raw data feed provided by their MLS board. We are happy to educate and assist clients in accessing this raw data feed, but in the end, it is not REW that makes application for the feed, it is the broker.

The usual process:

Broker contacts MLS board, requests a data feed

MLS board sends contract / application forms for the broker, the agent (Where…

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On Monday, January 29th the NEW REW directory will be going live. Because we have gone to a database driven submission and management system users will have to resubmit to the directory in order to be in the new version of the directory. Here is a link to upgrade your account: http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/blogs/signup/

Here is a screen shot of what your new REW Directory listing will look like IF you read this entire blog post :)



We have also added a lot more features to the directory so now instead of just a link and description in the directory, users can upload photos or logos, have links to their website, listings, REW Blog and can be contacted directly via the REW directory. What hasn't changed is the fact that you get a great search… Read Full Post

January 22nd, 2007 - By the end of this week our great members will be noticing a lot of changes here at Real Estate Webmasters.

New Look Real Estate Directory:
We have a new design for our real estate directory that will make visitors much more likely to click on your listing, but that is not all! The format for directory listings will be changing with a much greater emphasis on quality of submission and enticing click through to our Realtor members websites.  Instead of the standard html text link followed by a description, your directory listings will now have many more displayed elements such as member photo, phone number, company info, links to website, listings and contact page as well as a search engine friendly text link. Trust me when I say,… Read Full Post

Well the new REW directory is coming out soon and we need to put some final touches on the way listed agents and brokers are displayed.

Here are my ideas:

The agents will be listed with a photo or logo,  and the following in a business card style much like we have right now for our featured agents. A much greater focus needs to be placed on getting people to contact our members, not just provide them backlinks.

So for the business card part we will need the members to submit the following:

• Photo or Logo
• Phone Number (And Mobile if they like)
• Email Address
• Physical Address (If they wish)
• Office Name / Broker Office (Like REMAX Boulder or whatever)
• Link to Website
• Link to Listings
• Writeup - we don't want…

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One of the things many posters don't take the time to do is use images in their blogs. Readers love images, and by integrating images into your blogs you will capture your readers attention more, and they will come back more often to see what interesting articles (Supported with images) you have posted. This post will focus on posting images for REW Blogs



Pretty effective huh? I referenced REW Blogs followed by a screen shot image. Ok so how did I do this?

*Instructions are assuming you already have images on your computer to use on your blog, we will post another blog about formatting and editing images on the web

Step one: Decide where you want the image to be in your post, click that location in the wysiwyg editor and then click the… Read Full Post

Welcome design and programming students from Malaspina University College. We are happy to announce our offerings for practicum students this year.

Overview:
Real Estate Webmasters is the largest web development firm in our beautiful city of Nanaimo. We are currently looking to expand our staff of developers (Currently 25+) in both the graphic / web design department and the PHP / LINUX programming department.

We are looking for the best of the best and this is a great opportunity to start not only a great job right out of school, but a great and rewarding career.

Practicum hours are flexible but tentative schedule would be somewhere between 6-9 PM on weekdays. Again, we are flexible with this, as we are very interested in both helping… Read Full Post

This should be a good start for you Ryan :)

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ryan ward alpharetta real estate 11 7.45 0.00 0.00
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alpharetta lofts 2 1.00 0.00 0.00
buyers agent real estate agent alpharetta 2 3.50 0.00 0.00
alpharetta real estate agent 2 10.50 0.00 0.00Read Full Post

For those real estate webmasters that are trying to improve their natural search engine rankings, this link building blog post is a must read. Here I will cover many of the link building strategies that will help you increase your pagerank and link popularity, which as we all know will help improve your search engine rankings.

Authoring for authority websites:

This is one of the hardest yet most effective link building strategies there is. Basically the premise is to manage to get yourself on as an author for websites considered authorities in the real estate industry, or your local market. Examples would be http://www.nytimes.com/pages/realestate/index.html or your local chamber of commerce website, REW Online news etc. As an author, these authority… Read Full Post