3 Types of Agent Wordpress Themes

We wanted to give you a little explanation as to our theme categories, currently we have 3 top level categories for our Wordpress Themes:

• Traditional – for Realtors® who want the traditional looking real estate agent website, with an emphasis on the agent / agency and specialty.
• Blog – For Realtors® who want to take advantage of a blog look whilst still incorporating the map based IDX search and other Realtor specific content
• Map – For Realtors® who want to place a heavy emphasis on the property  search function within their websites.

Why We Chose Wordpress

So, its clearly apparent that HomeQuest loves Wordpress – but why so much you might ask? Well, there are several reasons for our choice in using Wordpress at the core of our new IDX and agent website system:

1. Its incredibly SEO (search engine optimization) friendly – that is, the code and its design is loved by most search engines, with its “just add content” formula, its the best platform for agents to market their website within the search engines.
2. Its the most user friendly, light-weight CMS on the planet – or at least, we think so!
3. Its completely customizable – With widgets, themes and more, you can completely customize the look and feel of your agent website with just a few clicks

Moving forward we have several new custom HomeQuest plugins being developed and an abundance of Realtor website themes, If there is something you would like to see in the new HomeQuest system, leave a comment and we’ll get right back to you!

LookingGlass IDX beta working

Our first version of LookingGlass IDX is live, Over one year in the making. We have tons of new features on the board to add over the next few months. It went live with our Brokerage in Portland – M Realty. The site stats are very good, low bounce, high page views, and growing number of return visitors. We have already generated several new clients and many strong leads ofter only one month.

I am very pleased with the performance so far. as usual we are tracking everything and have identified several areas to improve. And lots of ideas to test to help facilitate communication between agent and visitor.

Mapping Posts

If you create blog posts and give them a location, they will automatically show up on the map right along side the listings. We know that visitors spend the vast majority of the time and views looking at listings not the other content on your site. Now you can place information about the community and you activity right on the map where they are.

We will be putting some great examples of this in the site over the next few weeks