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One of the newest features from IDX Broker is the ability to filter searches by listings with a price reduction. What this means is that IDX Broker has created an easy way of not only displaying Reduced Price listings and information to potential clients, but also giving them the opportunity to seek out these properties specifically by adding Reduced Price as a searchable term that filters out properties that do not fall under this category. How Does It Work? You can see in the advanced search, there is now an option to track price reductions in the last day, 3 […]

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At RealtyCandy, we’ve created many Premium IDX Broker features and tools that we offer to our clients for FREE. One of the free tools that we frequently get questions about is for our daily returning visitor report email service. People often want to get email or text updates rather than have to manually keep track of leads. That’s why we created our text alerts and email alerts tool. Text Alerts allows you to receive a text every time a visitor registers, or a visitor who’s made an account returns, to let you know the last page they were viewing on […]

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There are many free Premium IDX Templates available for all sites with integrated IDX Broker. The Miami Premium IDX Template is just one of these page template designs that can drastically improve your website’s browsing experience and overall look, plus boost client engagement with your properties and make it easier for leads to understand which agent they are contacting for each listing. Features of the Miami Premium IDX Template When you click on a property listing to see the details, that listing details page is the page that the Miami Premium IDX Template is created for. Its design showcases an […]

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At RealtyCandy, we have Premium IDX Templates that we provide free of charge to all of our clients. These templates, when activated, alter the layout of their respective pages to make them more user-friendly. One of the templates we’ve added recently is for Agent Roster Pages.  Like all of our Premium IDX Templates, it changes the layout of the page, making it easier to read and more attractive on all devices. Our templates include mobile functionality and the layout shifts to fit any size screen while maintaining the integrity of the website’s design. A great example is cowanrealtors.com, who (thanks […]

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Use Beaver Builder Many successful brokers just don’t have the time to code a website. You want to maximize your time working and minimize your time in website development.  Simply IDX makes it easy to change your website by just clicking and dragging. With Beaver Builder, a plugin that comes with all of our Simply IDX sites, changing layouts and content couldn’t be simpler. You can choose from an array of modules, plus rearrange and add content with no coding at all. Beaver Builder doesn’t change the functionality of your WordPress site, but it does make it a lot easier […]

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Swartz Brothers Real Estate’s team has been in the business for a total of 140+ years across their staff, dedicating the time and energy to their work in the real estate business that it takes to become great. Their dedication shows in their stylish, smart choices for their website. Using Simply IDX for WordPress helps them be one of the best websites for Minnesota real estate, and here’s how: Home Page Features Swartz Brothers’ homepage features a slider tailored with images that represent the kinds of places they sell, appraise, and manage. This prompts interest from clients attracted to the […]

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Every real estate broker wants to have the best website possible. That’s no secret. The trouble is going from ambition to reality when you’re not a website developer and have neither the time nor the expertise to code the site of your dreams. It’s easy to end up with a website that looks stale and outdated, but some real estate websites clearly present themselves as a cut above the rest. Portland Condos is one such site, and here’s what you can do to make your site as inviting as this one: 1. Showcase Your Personality Joe and Becky Scharf with […]

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Premium IDX Templates IDX Broker recently released a great new feature to all their developer partners with the Custom Template feature. This custom templating feature allows IDX developer partners like RealtyCandy to create custom layouts and templates that are available for the needs of a specific client or designs that can be used by all our clients. We are building out a series of these and we are offering them at no charge to all our IDX Broker clients as “Premium IDX Templates”. Social IDX Features In addition to great layouts and designs, we are able to actually build some […]

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We have a lot of IDX Broker clients who reach out to us and ask what can I do to rank higher on Google or get more of my pages indexed by Google? They are all really looking for more leads. More leads who will convert into clients and buy or sell real estate. We have seen over the years that Google doesn’t really give most real estate agents’ sites ranking for an address of a listing like 123 Main Street. It is also hard to get ranked for “Miami Real Estate”.  (…like millions of dollars hard.) We have seen […]

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