Morgan Carey's Blog: REW Clients

I thought about "polygonadoodleallday" but I thought that might be a little out of left field.

Many of you read over at Agent Genius about how MIBOR (The local board of Realtors in Indianapolis) has demanded that all IDX vendors stop Google and other search engines from spidering any page of a Realtors website that has IDX listings or any part of the data referencing listings (such as property descriptions, MLS #'s or addresses) - this is with the exception of just the agents own listings of course.

Naturally as one of the largest custom IDX vendor in the world we are more than concerned about this issue as should all Realtors as it has the potential to dramatically impact their ability to get their listings competitive exposure unless they go through a third party aggregator such as Realtor.com and pay through the nose for premium…

Ok I have been planning on introducing some of the new features of our soon to be released system for a while but being the perfectionist that I tend to be sometimes, I didn't want to start showing it off to much until it was nearly complete - I think that time has come as next week I will be finilizing my list of beta testers for this app - with final production release due July 31st corresponding with the second day of the REW Summit.

So let's get right to it - what does this bad boy look like, and what are some of the enhancements users can expect in the upgrade.

Yup that's it - ain't it purdy

It looks even better with lead data in it :) - So what exactly are you looking at here?

What did I add - what's new, what's cool, how does it work? Don't…

THIS PROMOTION IS NOW CLOSED

Real Estate Webmasters turns 5 years old today! (April 9th 2009)

I keep sitting down to write a super long post all teary eyed about how awesome our members and customers have been over the last 5 years but honestly I am going to run out of birthday before I'm done - so I have decided to save that post for another day and just keep our Real Estate Webmasters 5th birthday promo post short and sweet -

THANK YOU!

To all of our members, to all of our staff, and especially to all of customers thank you for 5 great years.

It has been an amazing experience and we have learned so much from you all, and hopefully you have been able to learn a few things from us as well. Along the way we have developed a lot of friendships and…

Ok this just made me laugh. I was over at AR (for whatever reason I have no idea, it's not like I ever post there anymore) and there was yet another feature post "promoting active rain" - imagine that - kiss active rains ass to get on the homepage - wish I was a rainmaker.

In the article the poster writes:

"Ok I'll tell you a better reason to join Active Rain...  Active Rain gives you the power to advertise yourself anywhere on the internet.  The exposure you get from Active Rain is second to none.   I did an experiment.  For one week,  I posted about the Chicago Northwest Suburbs.  I think I wrote 3 or 4 posts with the key words Chicago Northwest Suburbs Real Estate.   Before that my website was nowhere to be found when you googled Chicago Northwest…

Real Estate Webmasters is very excited to offer a new tier in hosting services for our high traffic / lead and higher need customers who demand the best. The new premium hosting is an optional package available to all Real Estate Webmasters customers on a "per domain" basis and current availability is very limited.

Who should switch:

The customers who should seriously consider switching to the premium hosting accounts (generally) have the following characteristics (most are symptoms caused by having successful high traffic high lead websites). But also there are those who quite simply must have the best of everything available. Do any of these items right a bell for you?

• High traffic website
• High new / returning lead volume
• Slow backend…

What's the prize?

• Limited Edition Custom website: $10,000
• Lifetime Website & IDX Data Hosting: $8400
• Full service search engine optimization setup: $6000
• 50 hours additional custom design / programming: $5000
• $15,000 PPC traffic (includes professional PPC setup and optimization)
• Total prize value: $50,400 USD

How to enter this contest (It's free)

• Refer a new member to the Real Estate Webmasters forums
• Refer a new blogger to REW Blogs
• Refer a new customer to Real Estate Webmasters
• Become a new customer of Real Estate Webmasters

Why are we doing this?

It's pretty simple really - The Real Estate Webmasters community has the most knowledgeable and friendly members of any Realtor community online.…

A big thank you goes out to Colleen Forbes and the entire Exit Realty Florida crew for having us be the exlusive website vendors at at your recent Orlando event. Carrie and I had a great time meeting you all, and we look forward to servicing you now and in the future.

Exit Template website winner

For those Exit folks that missed the draw at the luncheon for the REW Exit template website - the winner was Montie Lipsey-Lee of Exit Realty Producers, Gainesville, Florida. Montie - we hope you enjoy your new website, and we are just going to need a few things from you to get you setup (templates are quick and easy) - what I need from you is the following:

• Phone number for the website (goes under your photo)
• Photo - (the higher resolution the…