RealShout Real Estate Wordpress Plugin Updates
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The launch of our Real Estate Search Plugin for WordPress was a great success! Now, over 500 downloads later, we’ve fixed bugs and made some pretty great improvements to make it easier (and better) to have searchable local listings on your Real Estate blog. Here are just a few:
Real Estate Wordpress Plugin Released
As an alternative to IDX solutions, real estate marketing company, RealShout, offers a free WordPress plugin that allows agents and brokers to have searchable real estate listings on their site.
January 5, 2010 — With WordPress being the choice for many real estate bloggers, RealShout has unveiled a new plugin for the publishing platform that will enable real estate professionals to have searchable local listings on their blog or website.
 Up until now, real estate professionals had to purchase expensive IDX solutions in order to display neighboring listings to their visitors  |
The free searchable listing Real Estate Wordpress plugin can be installed on any WordPress template and functional the same day. Pulling data from the Google Base API, the plugin provides ample data to populate any real estate site. Customization capabilities include colors, location (cities), distance, bedrooms, bath, and price. The plugin enables listings to display in a list with thumbnail pictures, which can be clicked on to view more details, photos, a Google Map, and more.
Setting it apart from many IDX services, the RealShout plugin does not place listings in an iframe, thus allowing them to be indexed by search engines.
“Up until now, real estate professionals had to purchase expensive IDX solutions in order to display neighboring listings to their visitors,” says Misty Lackie, CEO of Go Smart Solutions, LLC, the parent company of RealShout. “We’re offering this plugin for free to allow agents and brokers to have searchable listings on their site without spending hundreds of dollars.”
The plugin is offered for free on the RealShout website or the WordPress Plugin Directory, and is compatible with most WordPress templates.
RealShout.com is a real estate marketing company that guarantees leads for agents, real estate brokers, and mortgage brokers. The company also offers marketing services to MLS’s nationwide.
RealShout is the creation of Go Smart Solutions, LLC, a company that has been providing advertising solutions for professionals and small businesses since 2002. RealShout provides lead generating online real estate advertising for agents and brokers in the industry
The Value of Listing Syndication
Listing Syndication
From the first moment your customers ask you about selling their home the time becomes critical, and the value of a listing syndication like what RealShout offers becomes your best business partner. Information technology is driving customers to search for the home they want directly from the internet. In fact, it is not surprising that more than 85% of homebuyers use the internet to search for the property that best meets their essential requirements. Therefore, the value of a listing syndication is critical to the financial and reputable growth of your company. For real estate brokers, multiple listing services, and mortgage brokers using a listing syndication service like RealShout is essential to bring in guaranteed leads with potential homebuyers that are already pre-qualified to receive a loan.
What are the benefits of a listing syndication service like Real Shout? With Real Shout you are able to leverage the power of search engines, social networks, video branding, multiple directories and other search portals all over the internet. Real Shout provides your business with an expert look via a geo-targeted Real Shout website that allows your customers to search through multiple properties you represent. Moreover through Real Shout your listings are also sent to over 60 real estate directories, social networks and video portals driving traffic back to your website and clients listings. Reports, activities, and ROI tracking is automatic with the Real Shout listing syndication service.
You no longer have to waste valuable business time chasing down a trickle of prospective homebuyers for just one property. With the built in benefits and value of a Real Shout real estate syndication, qualified customer acquisition is on autopilot. There is no doubt that you can meet your seller’s needs much faster when syndicating your listings. Moreover, with faster guaranteed customer acquisition, RealShout is the business partner you must hire. Don’t let the competition pass you by, call Real Shout today to get started.
Real Estate IDX Services and Their Disadvantages
Alternative To IDX Websites Search
Real Estate IDX services are used by many brokers but the service is costly and has significant disadvantages. RealShout has developed an excellent software alternative to IDX services that delivers similar benefits at a more affordable rate.
One of the main disadvantages of many IDX (Internet Data Exchange) solutions is the high cost of the service. Real estate IDX services are designed to provide brokers with reciprocal links to each other’s websites to facilitate sales among the participants. If a consumer cannot find what they are looking for on one broker’s website they can search through the exchange for other homes or properties.
Problems with many Real Estate IDX Services
In addition to the high cost, IDX real estate web sites suffer from other major disadvantages. For example, because many of these websites use iframes as a part of their web design, they are not optimized for search engine rankings. The large search engine algorithms tend to overlook information contained in the iframe format. Since the vast majority of internet users use search engines to find products and services over the World Wide Web, web pages containing iframes will hinder sales and leads.
Users of IDX web sites are also hindered by the fact that they cannot alter the look, feel and functions of their web pages. May times the IDX web pages cannot be customized for individual broker requirements. Such inflexibility lessens the ability of brokers to establish their brand and to offer unique services.
The RealShout solution
You may be surprised to learn that you can get all the capabilities of real estate IDX services without the associated costs. RealShout is a software platform developed by Go Smart Solutions, a Better Business Bureau accredited marketing software company. The Shout software is designed to give brokers maximum flexibility in customizing their web pages and managing content. The platform allows for easy administration of listings and management of users who have opted into email lists.
RealShout web pages are designed to be search engine friendly without displaying content in counterproductive iframes.
Why spend more when you can have a website that functions like a real estate IDX service but at a lower cost, and which provides better results on search engines and increased flexibility in presentation? Furthermore, RealShout guarantees customer satisfaction in its software product.
Learn more about the RealShout Alternative to IDX Solutions >>
