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I am not sure requiring registration is a best practice, but if we are going to discuss best practice for it I have found restricting access to photo galleries is all that is needed. Depending on which listing detail template you are using you will most likely need to use .IDX-notLoggedIn CSS to prevent visitors from circumventing the need to visit the photo gallery page. Like you, I let them view 3 photo galleries before requiring registration. I don’t use request registration at all. Once again, I am not suggesting this is a best practice strategy.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...Fortunately I don’t have a website using a feed that puts the zero in front of the L ID. Still, I use a custom subheader on the the L ID search page to let visitors know what a proper MLS ID looks like.
“Valid MLS numbers are 7 digits long and begin with 95. To enter multiple numbers separate them by commas.”
Until a better alternative surfaces you could do something similar and mention the zero has to be entered in front.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...No doubt there are other IDX providers out there looking to poke holes in their competition over this. That’s their marketing strategy. Although I look forward to the intraday updates rapidly being expanded to include all MLS feeds, every MLS system I have encountered has instantaneous email update functionality. This technology is not new and certainly not limited to IDX. The fact is once a day updates is fine for all but the most red hot and ready go to buyers. When a buyer reaches this RHARTG status the agent should be using the MLS for updates instead of IDX.
I would tell my disgruntled clients that IDX is not intended to replace MLS functionality. They still need to do their jobs as real estate agents and use every resource at their disposal to help their buyers succeed. No excuses. If they want to switch IDX providers because they think they can find an IDX provider that replaces their MLS, or the need for them to do their jobs, they are allowing themselves to be bamboozled.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...Brian, I ran across this recently published entry in the kb.
http://support.idxbroker.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2356544-seo-for-photo-gallery
Apparently I missed the announcement so pardon me if this old news.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...There is a very basic search tool widget named WP Listings-Search included with the plugin.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...You can selectively submit parts of the xml sitemap to google. For instance just the link that maps the listing details pages, but I have never had much success with that. I use the whole thing in most situations. Even though the links are ugly and sometimes empty, it does not appear to have that much negative impact. Google seems to ignore it and that’s what I prefer them to do. Once again, I strongly believe in presenting the content I want indexed in a prominent fashion on the site itself (using the saved links). One of the saved links I use is newest listings. Every listing enters the market as a new listing so that’s a no brainer way of getting google and website visitors to the fresh stuff. I look forward to more frequent data updates rolling out as I am convinced speed matters when it comes to IDX content and SERP.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...Actually on thinking it through a little longer I agree that there would not necessarily be duplicate title and meta content. Changing anything would eliminate that.
I share your concern and I use no index to avoid duplicate title and meta weighing a site down. The strategy that I have had the most success with is to use fully optimized saved links results to present fully optimized listing details pages. If you can get that working you really don’t need that much other IDX content to be indexable. Especially the content where optimization options are limited or don’t exist, and may actually be working against you.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...I respectfully disagree with you Brian. You already have all of the necessary dynamic title and meta available on the listing details page and if you are using it properly it too would become duplicate content on the photo gallery page should such an enhancement be adopted.
As far as the html sitemap goes, I no index, no follow it because it’s total garbage. The xml sitemap is a viable alternative and already exists.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...Assuming this is an office level account each agent has their own portal where they have the ability to see the traffic history for their assigned leads.
I am mentioning this because there is no reason your client’s agents should have to be “cold calling” their assigned leads whether this ER is implemented or not.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...I am unaware of any need for the IDX disclaimer to be imported into WP Listings as these are exclusively the firm’s own listings. Among the reasons I am mentioning this is the disclaimer imports and displays the last data update field. I am sure nobody wants to re-import these listings on a daily basis, or display what might appear to be dated information. I am aware of the simple CSS solution for my concern, but I would just like to know what the official thought on this is. Is it IDX data or not? I say not except for perhaps for the additional listing photos.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...All of the information your client wants (and more) is available in his IDX Broker dashboard. There are also excellent contact routing tools which all but eliminate the need for micro-managing lead distribution.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...Thank you imFORZA! I understand you have some special stuff going on and wish now I had attended the developers conference.
For Nick, let me add that I participate in several forums, and 5 months just to get a response that I don’t understand is not an optimum participant experience.
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