We've just made another excellent update to XSites and XSites IDX. As always, this update is free for all our customers. There are four important things I want to highlight that I think our users are really going to like.
All new, completely automatic listing import
If you have XSites IDX, our new automatic import saves you the trouble of manually having to import each listing you enter into the MLS. Now listings will come into your XSite automatically so you can have them shown as featured listings in dynamic content. Your XSite looks for changes to your listings several times a day so...
When Inman News uses your product announcement as the lead story for their daily news e-mail, you know you've got something good on your hands. That's just what happened last week when we started telling the press about RE:Focus Analytics -- Your MLS on the iPad. We were flattered by the coverage and thank our friends over at Inman.
But, good coverage on Inman isn't really my point for writing this. At the bottom of each story on Inman, there's a place for comments and questions. A few comments got placed by some anonymous readers. I thought I'd go ahead and address them here so we could...
We just posted a new version of RE:Focus Analytics to the iTunes Store. This is an awesome update and we're excited for you to get your hands on it and see what you think. You'll get a lot new features and performance upgrades. The complete list of items is below, but I wanted to highlight a few specifically that we think you'll love.
Draw your Lenses on a map
The first version of RE:Focus let you choose your geographic search with squares, polygons, and circles. It worked fine, but we felt like something just wasn't quite "right" about it. So, we decided to try out a new drawing feature...
Making our products work correctly in all browsers is one of the toughest jobs we've got. That's why so many real estate technology companies only work in Internet Explorer.
Without getting into too many nerdy details, every browser displays things just a tiny bit (or sometimes a lot) differently. So what looks great in Chrome looks weird in Safari and might completely break down in Firefox. Anyone who tells you getting software to run on the web is easy is lying to you -- especially if they're talking about tools as feature-rich and flexible as XSites, XSellerate, and XSites IDX. But...
Unique, niche-focused content is the most important piece of any good website. After all, if your website content is just like all the other agents out there, how will Google and Bing ever know you’re different, and serve you up on the first page of search results? You've got to show that you're in your target market to get good search rank, so having pages like "New construction expert in Naples, Florida" or "Relocation advice for Salt Lake City" is a great place to start. But simply having those pages on your site isn't enough to hit the top of the search engines. To do that, you've got to...
