The Work Will NEVER Be Done!

Roger, The sites can take up a lot of time, and if it doesn't fit your needs no reason to keep it going.

Tammie, And the picture aspect really seems to appeal to some buyers.  We use our subdivision collages as blog bait, link the subdivision and PIN, and pull traffic over.  We've had one closing directly attributable to Pinterest, and another set of buyers that haven't bought yet, but are also from Pinterest.

Yvette, It's easy to add the map, just create a map in Google and embed the custom code in the footer.  And we're making good progress through the updates, about another 20 subdivisions to update then on to the miscellaneous custom links which will be MUCH faster to do.

Sarah, I like seeing the output and knowing a bit more about the HOW to make the changes on our website, the biggest challenge is fitting it into an already busy schedule.

Stefan, That's one of the things I'm doing with the updates.  We've been steadily working through area subdivisions and initially I'd include a recent sales line.  Well if the "recent" sales info is from 2011, it's not too recent, and I know the odds of working through 80-100 subdivisions regularly to update the info isn't likely.  As a result, I'm removing that info, but providing a good IDX link and buyers will be able to see what the asking price is for the subdivision homes.  That will give us "evergreen" posts and allow us to cover more areas more effectively.

Travis, Hope you have "Home" back quickly!

Nick, In my case what was driving me nuts was IDX Broker original/vanilla/iron ore version didn't have a map drawing capability at all.  So every time I did a subdivision post I'd either have to do custom links with EVERY street name in the community (after doing that once or twice I was DONE with that approach), or using a standard map search, but that captured the neighboring subdivisions.  IDX Broker Platinum incorporated polymorphic drawing, so now I can EXACTLY trace a subdivision and limit the search results to ONLY that subdivision.  While the work is a definite PITA, it's worth it to me to narrow the search results and only give the consumer what I'm talking about, otherwise I'm afraid they won't realize why they're getting search results from neighboring developments.  I'm about 80% of the way done with the subdivision recreations, and I guess after I'm done I'll have to go and kill the old IDX pages (which will be pretty quick to do) and hope Google picks up all my new pages.

John, It provides a map results followed by List View.  Like you, I COULD do a subdivision search, but I've learned it's totally unreliable because agents can't spell!  Multiple spelling versions for the same subdivision make the returns inaccurate.  Here's a sample of one of the new pages:  http://homesforsale.warrencountyohiorealestate.com/i/horseshoe-falls-condos-for-sale-lebanon-ohio-45036

John, I'd love it if the tax databases/MLS used drop down menus of approved subdivision names, but I doubt either source is looking to go to those lengths!  So the shaped map search we now have is about 99.9% accurate, although I'm still finding the rare match where the home isn't mapped properly and shows up a couple of blocks away from where it should!

John, New construction are the ones I see most often mapped well off target.  They often show up on a similar street name four towns away.