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Are You Maximizing Your IDX To Sell Your Listings?

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Real Estate Agent with Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com SAL.2002007747

SearchAre You Maximizing Your IDX To Sell Your Listings?

Frankly, some houses are fairly easy to sell.  The market is hot, buyers want that home and all the homes just like it.  A few days and you're under contract.

But what about those homes that aren't like the others?  The unique ones?  The ones that just aren't like the others?  It doesn't have to be some killer characteristic like high power lines or a sewage treatment plant next door.  Sometimes it's a case of something that an owner added, but the value won't be recognized by all buyers.  Now you're fishing in a smaller pond.

Now's where long tail IDX search pages can really come in handy!

What characteristics does this unique home possess?

Now it's easy to start with the general:

  • Search homes for Sale in xxxxxx School District
  • Search 4 bedroom homes for sale in xxxxxxx
  • Search homes for sale in xxxxxx from $xxxxxx to $xxxxxx

But now let's dig a bit deeper.  Go even further out to the more exact.  What specific features does this home offer that isn't so common, but does match with an IDX characteristic?

  • Finished basement
  • Number of garage spaces
  • Size of lot
  • Perhaps a map search near something key?  A business?  A park?

And once you've exhausted your IDX capability, what's next?

Take a blog post or two and explore where IDX can't go.   Define and broadcast those unique features that will bring your next buyer through the door. Hook in the specific home you're marketing and you've made your listing go from one of hundreds to one of one. 

If there's a buyer or two or twenty out there searching the web for what you've got to offer, they're going to find YOUR listing once you've got the work done!

Serving Warren County Ohio home buyers and sellers,

Liz and Bill aka BLiz

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The Liz Spear Team of Transaction Alliance
Elizabeth Spear, ABR, Ohio License SAL.2002007747

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Comments(28)

Anita Clark
Coldwell Banker Access Realty ~ 478.960.8055 - Warner Robins, GA
Realtor - Homes for Sale in Warner Robins GA

BLiz: We are paying for it so we may as well get as much mileage from our IDX as possible. Hopefully this will inspire more to maximize their online marketing.

Aug 24, 2014 08:49 AM
Liz and Bill Spear
Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH
Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Anita, We keep adding search seeds and we'll see what grows from it.

Aug 24, 2014 08:51 AM
Ellie Penaranda
239.776.5077 Downing-Frye Realty - Naples, FL
Naples Florida Real Estate - Waterfront & Beach Co

Bliz, excellent advice.  IDX is a great tool to make the phone ring, whether it is our listing or as a search link to homes for sale in a particular neighborhood.  I am going to take your tip here and try using IDX more specifically to features of homes instead of a community.   Most buyers are looking for the home that offers the features that fit their needs.  Great post.

Aug 24, 2014 02:21 PM
Tammie White, Broker
Franklin Homes Realty LLC - Franklin, TN
Franklin TN Homes for Sale

Bliz, I don't think there's anyway to exhaust every possible IDX search. I've been trying to and I just keep adding page after page. There are some days when I actually wish it could end.

Aug 24, 2014 02:27 PM
Liz and Bill Spear
Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH
Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Ellie, We find a lot of long tail type search results leading us to our WP site, so we know it works for us.

Tammie, Some features we've decided are so far out there on the edges that they haven't seemed worth writing a special search for. But who knows, maybe they'd have a better return than we'd expect. We tend to filter off a characteristic that we can readily foresee a buyer using as a "must have" vs. a "nice to have". 

Aug 24, 2014 08:32 PM
Conrad Allen
Re/Max Professional Associates - Webster, MA
Webster, Ma, Realtor

Hi Bill.  You are the master of IDX.  I need to do a better job.

Aug 24, 2014 08:44 PM
Jenna Dixon
Momentum Real Estate Group LLC - Marietta, GA
55 & Over | New Constructions | Horse Farms

Thanks for adding something else to my to-do list.  I'm going to get on this sooner rather than later!

Aug 24, 2014 10:21 PM
Liz and Bill Spear
Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH
Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Conrad, We still have plenty to learn, but we're finding creating the custom IDX search pages to be productive.  Subdivision specific or a key feature specific seem to get us the most traffic.

Jenna, There will never be a shortage of to do items for our business :) 

Aug 24, 2014 10:41 PM
Dorie Dillard Austin TX
Coldwell Banker Realty ~ 512.750.6899 - Austin, TX
NW Austin ~ Canyon Creek and Spicewood/Balcones

Good morning BLIZ,

These are excellent tips on how to produce the best results form our IDX..thanks for sharing your expertise!

Aug 24, 2014 11:04 PM
Liz and Bill Spear
Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH
Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Dorie,  We learn and share, as others have done with us :) 

Aug 24, 2014 11:10 PM
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Bliz, I actually have a home that has been on the market 1 1/2 weeks, which here is a long time.    Have been blogging with keywords to hopefully see more showings.  

Aug 24, 2014 11:21 PM
Scott Godzyk
Godzyk Real Estate Services - Manchester, NH
One of the Manchester NH's area Leading Agents

This is what i need, my IDX is antique. They just dont make it easy for us in NH to find a new company compatable to our mls and switch to someone better.

Aug 25, 2014 12:14 AM
Liz and Bill Spear
Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH
Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Joan, Home here are taking far longer to move with a few notable exception areas.

Scott, It helps, but our MLS control of feeds really restricts.  And the other issue we have is two MLS, so if we want the Dayton MLS feed it's another added monthly cost.  We've kept our IDX search focus on the Cincinnati MLS feed.

Aug 25, 2014 01:38 AM
Rob Arnold
Sand Dollar Realty Group, Inc. - Altamonte Springs, FL
Metro Orlando Full Service - Investor Friendly & F

I am amazed at how many listings I see with only minimal description and checkboxes.  How do they expect to fully market the home to the most buyers with only limited information? 

Aug 25, 2014 02:57 AM
John Mosier
Realty ONE Group Mountain Desert - Prescott, AZ
Prescott's Patriot Agent 928 533-8142

Thanks for your post, Bliz.  I have developed some "long tail" searches for my area. I have three listings with GIANT boulders on the lots. Granite boulders are one of the most desirable land features in our area. I made a search for all the lots in the area that show boulders in the views. My listings are prominently displayed in the results.

Aug 25, 2014 03:26 AM
Liz and Bill Spear
Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH
Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Rob, It's baffling isn't it?  I wish more sellers actually looked at how their homes are presented in MLS and some of the nonsense would stop.

John, That's a unique approach and perfectly tailored to your local needs.  Nice work! 

Aug 25, 2014 03:36 AM
Karen Feltman
Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, IA KW Legacy Group - Cedar Rapids, IA
Relocation Specialist in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

The more information that is out there, the more likely that the right buyer will find it.  These are great tips to make the most out of our blogging and our reach.  Thank you for sharing.

Aug 25, 2014 04:23 AM
Liz and Bill Spear
Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH
Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Karen, The more opportunity we create to be found, the better for our sellers.

Aug 25, 2014 04:33 AM
Brenda Mullen
RE/MAX Associates - San Antonio, TX
Your San Antonio TX Real Estate Agent!!

Very good post on ensuring you do the right things to get your listing noticed in the search engines BLiz!  

Aug 25, 2014 07:51 AM
Liz and Bill Spear
Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH
Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Brenda, In slower markets, we've got to leverage the tools we have to work with.  We're already paying for them, so it's just a little extra time to get it done.

Aug 25, 2014 07:57 AM