Today, TotalScope Marketing launched the new WordPress website for Campton Village Realty in Campton, NH. The website, www.camptonvillagerealty.com is the first site by TotalScope to incorporate an IDX, Internet Data Exchange, plugin to bring live MLS (Multiple Listing Service) real estate listings into the pages of the site.
After attempting many of the available ‘real estate’ plugins available through the community, we decided that nothing could compete with a live feed of real estate listing data from the local MLS in New Hampshire, which is the Northern New England Real Estate Network or NNEREN. Though the Campton Village Realty website is employing the Plugin “Real Estate Plugin” to showcase its non-mls vacation rentals listings, the plugin used for the IDX far exceeds the non-IDX system.
The IDX plugin used for this application is the dsIDXpress by Diverse Solutions and for a small monthyl fee, they provide a live feed of data from most MLS’s to your website. So far, so good. The application seems very stable and has many features providing for much customization. One feature in particular is the ability to add multiple variable strings to the query URL making it easy to create tailored searches of the MLS and resulting displays of the results in your own SEO friendly pages. One example of this is how we created a query of all listings in the city of Campton, for the Agency Office of the Client. Here is what the link looks like: http://www.camptonvillagerealty.com/idx/city/campton/?idx-q-ListingOfficeID=2343.
The plugin also allows the use of “short codes” making it extremely quick and easy to display any number of established search queries on any page of your blog. There are many other IDX suppliers out there, and they may be very capable and stable, but for now, we are please with this.
As we are in the business of marketing our clients and are focused on results… we can’t pass up the opportunity to promote them directly here. So… If you are looking to buy or sell real estate in central New Hampshire, check out Campton Village Realty…and the brand new website. Campton Village Realty specializes in real estate sales and vacation rentals in the towns of Campton, Waterville Valley, Thornton, Woodstock, Lincoln, Holderness and surrounding NH towns.
