Our Real Estate Web Designs make it easy to post your properties and to update them when you need to. But when you want even more content for your site, or more search traffic to your website, IDX integration is a great way to do that.
Some facts about IDX / MLS Integration:
The act of having IDX data on websites is becoming much more popular and you are probably seeing other Realtors with some sort of IDX data on their website. Also large real estate portals have a variety of data and allow people to search by a variety of criteria. If you do not offer IDX of some sort your site is likely to be less sticky and people will leave sooner.
Your local Realtor Board often will supply some data and this requires some approval process. You might want to contact them to see what they offer and the cost as soon as possible. Usually their approval will take a few days. We can help you implement their solution and often it is the cheapest data you can get.
Iframed solutions are web pages within web pages, which pull data from an outside source, while the local page they are on does not change. This is the easiest to implement, often free data from your Realty Board, and a fairly clean solution. The problem is that there are not many different types of results that can be done with the framed page and there is little, to no, SEO benefit to your site with iframes.
Pages with IDX data coded into them – The best way to integrate IDX data is to pull all the data from a master database and set filters for location, house type, or price to create complete coded pages on properties that fit your criteria. This creates pages that show like normal pages and Google reads as normal text. Your new pages can be some of the first in the search engines and more likely to be found by searchers. We can create these types of pages with WordPress backed sites or traditional html sites.
Custom Coded RETS/ MLS/IDX Solutions – Although not our first recommendation we can code custom solutions in some circumstances or modify existing solutions. This can be used for large real estate portals or multi agent solutions. Time to implement depends on the project scope and website plans.