Hi Russell,

I use IDXPro, good choice!  I am not experiencing that problem, so maybe it's a glitch with the test version?

Look at my page: http://www.lcountyhomes.com/Licking_Valley_Homes_Priced_200000__Up/page_1805686.html   On this page, I have framed preset results.

I set the iframe display Width: 720 and Height: 2000

Tracie

Russell - I take that back - I think I figured it out though.  The scroll bar doesn't move when you choose a listing.  So if you choose a listing at the bottom of the page, it's going to open with the scroll bar at the bottom.  This is probably something we should tell IDXPro about, they usually find ways to fix anything I've told them about.

Tracie

Hi Russell,

We use IDX Pro.  I'm not sure about the issue at hand you mention and what causes it.  

I can tell you that we get about 25-30 leads a week from buyers.  We require that they register before they can view the search results, and we are having great success with it!  

Good luck!

Well you have to keep in mind that most of these people are probably 6 months or more out.  Some are ready now, but not many.  

Yes we do get people asking for more information on some of the listings and some do want to go look at the listings.  Many are just in the beginning stages, so it takes a while for them to contact you.  But by requiring registration, it gives us their contact info so we add them to our drip campaigns.

When they save a search it sends you an email and lets you know what the criteria was and anytime someone saves a listing they like, it also sends you an email with the MLS #.  It's been a great feature for us to have!

We've only been using it for about the last 6 months or so.  When we first started, we were not requiring registration and we were only getting a couple leads a week.  We switched about a month ago to make them register and now we are getting about 25-30 leads a week.  Safe to say that registering is working for us!

Thanks for the compliment on my site!

No I created all of my own drip emails.  I don't email once a week, I think it's way to much and will run people off.  I email twice a month with 2 different drips.  One is a newsletter and one is buyer tips.

Becky - Do you write your own newsletter or who do you buy it from?

Ron I sue Neteconmist - they are local - did you speak with them?

That was "use" not "sue" - excuse my typo. Can we edit our comments?

Michelle, I sent you an email.

Russell, I'm not sure where you are at.  I'm in Florida.  In one of places that took one of the biggest hits when the market turned.  Sales have been very very very slow here.  The people I am working with, are mostly people that I've had for a while that are just now getting off the fence to buy something.  I have showed a couple of homes to people that came through IDX, but like I said most of those people are 6 months or more out.  A lot of them still have not raised their hands yet to want to talk to me or go see anything.  Things are just now finally starting to pick up, so I hope more people will start raising their hands soon.

I am showing a house to someone next weekend that just set up a search in IDX last week.  Every person is different.  All I can say is try it out and see if it works for you.

Ok, I need to get off here now and get some things down around the house!  Fun things...like laundry and cleaning!  ;)

Russell,

We are getting a lot of "leads", have closed 1 this year directly from IDX and are working with several others who found us that way.  I don't have numbers to offer, I need to keep stats I guess.  I kinow our numbers are no where near Becky's.  I'm chicken - scared to make them register.

I put a counter on my MLS page too, and I watch it - a lot of people spend a lot of time on there - sometimes they call, so it's hard to say exactly how many real leads we've got from it.

Tracie

IDX is one of those things that is found on all of the top real estate websites. Buyers expect it. Most assume that when they want to search they will find a site that will let them search. Buyers who come to a site and don't find a way to search MLS listings will be on to the next site within seconds. Will it directly produce more business? Maybe. Will it give buyers another reason to use, stay on, tell others about, and come back to your site? Definitely!

"Interesting.  The longest Drip Campaign in P2 is 15 weeks.  Is that the one you use?"

Actually, you can create a custom drip campaign that goes out once per month for 24 months....

I wish we could do even longer ones though.

A real estate site HAS to have IDX search, IMHO. *Has* to.

There are limitations to framing. There's probably some way to do dynamic framing that prevents some of the scrolling issues, but it's way beyond my capability -- and maybe impossible within the P2 framework. But I don't think it matters. Our IDX page gets a lot of traffic, people must be figuring it out...

I am getting a runtime error when I try to submit the page with my idx link for our local mls.  MLS say it is not their link problem; it is a problem with the program.  Any ideas?  I am not computer savvy.