WordPress IDX Plugin

Coming Soon! The WordPress IDX Plugin from HomeQuest allows you to install the amazing HomeQuest IDX Search into your WordPress blog.

In the past, you could only enjoy our IDX Blogger map if you had a site hosted with HomeQuest, now as another option you can install our Plugin. A WordPress plugin is an easy way to install additional functionality to your WordPress website or blog. Enhance your website with continually updated listings from the MLS, as well as the ability to add your blog posts to the map as neighborhood information. The plug-in centers around an interactive map that can search property by map window or various shapes such as Zillow neighborhoods, zip codes, school boundaries etc. Visitors can save searches and be notified of new matches via email and can build folders to store their favorite properties.

Now you can have the freedom of your own WordPress blog with our premier IDX solution, and best of all the plugin is FREE with your HomeQuest subscription.

Check out more and see the latest information about the WordPress IDX Plugin from HomeQuest.

Now enhanced with:

• An easier to navigate map.  Navigate by neighborhood, school boundary, city, or just zoom in to the area you want and see the listings.
• Saved Searches!  Never before has a client been able to setup their own Saved Searches, an agent always had to do it for them.  Now clients can save the search they are working on at any time and automatically receive updates to that search by email.
• Multiple Favorites Lists

HomeQuest Open House on Monday

One week from today on Monday November 16, 2009 we are hosting our HomeQuest Open House. Drop in anytime from noon to 4pm at 2211 NW Front St Portland, OR 97209 and get some help with HomeQuest or your IDX Blogger website.

Creating an effective IDX Blogger website

IDX Blogger from HomeQuest makes it very easy to get an agent website with a property search. But the best property search around doesn’t make your website good. Content is what sets your website apart from the others, and content is how the search engines find you. In order to have an effective website with IDX Blogger, make sure that you have:

Original Content

Write about what you know and love, make a name for yourself. Your content should be original, and it should reference sources if there are any. If you leave your site bare with only a property search and a paragraph about yourself as an agent, you do not have a compelling website.

SEO

Make sure that you have filled out the SEO page on your site. Click here to see how to change the SEO information for your site.

This information influences how your site appears in the Google listings, including the name and the keywords that are associated with your site. Filling this information out helps Google find you and list your site under the correct keywords that you want to focus on.

No Default Content

Your site comes with some text on the Home page, your first blog posts, and in your Agent Profile widget. Change this text! The default is no good, and it should be changed to represent you. The process of Editing a Page, Editing a Blog Post, and Editing your Widgets is also a good exercise in learning IDX Blogger and how to use it.

Pages

See the links in your navigation bar? Those are your pages. Each link represents a page in the system. You can change these links, add more pages that appear up there, and even change the order. Click here to see more about Pages.

Blog Posts/Neighborhood Info

IDX Blogger lets you place your own neighborhood information right on your listings map. Your clients will see your blog posts placed right on the map as they are searching for homes. This lets a client know how active you are in that neighborhood, and how well you know the area. The more you post, the more informative your map is. Click here to see more about blog posts.