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If point2 Agent is leaving you high and dry then maybe take a look at Dynamic IDX. We are a smaller IDX company that keeps our customer service close to our hearts. If you want a more personable approach to your real estate website then look no further.  Our team has been building websites for realtors since 2001. Take back your website with Dynamic IDX. 

We are a small company that primarily services the southeast for real estate websites. Being one of the few small companies left out there we have survived because we care about customer support and giving our clients control over their websites. If you are looking for a very cost effect and very Dynamic system then I would like to encourage you to look at Dynamic IDX. You know a product is amazing when your customers take time out of their busy schedules to make a video like the one below for you. That is the type of personal touch we give to our clients. 

I know this goes without saying but if you are not sure about an email, never click on the links or even reply to it. If it pertains to your business, utilities, domain, or banking account, always first contact your provider directly from their website, phone, or their support system. Never ever trust email links!

Currently, there is a new Phishing email scam that uses Cpanel internal messages trying to scare you into clicking on them quickly with the concern that your website is running out of disk space or bandwidth. This message is very rare and very unlikely that you would get such a message unless you are the tech contact or host. These are internal messages that are passed around...

Big corporations that brokers/agents are moving their sites to are destroying their organic SEO in order to replace it with lead buying options. 

That’s right; the big dogs are getting brokers/agents to move away from smaller companies that provide the ability to have Organic SEO and replace it with more automation that the clients really don’t want and lack Organic SEO. 

They do this by offering free setup fees and a few months of monthly maintenance then hit you hard when your Organic SEO is gone and no longer brings you leads. Now you are at their mercy because as you all know building back up Organic SEO can take months or even years and yet can be taken away from you in weeks.

So ...

Thinking back many years now I remember watching my parents on the weekends preparing for an open house and taking out signs to properties on Saturday just in time for Sunday callers. I remember watching them at their desk with paper and pen writing up ads for the newspaper on Monday evenings because they had to have them in the newspaper before Wednesday's end of the day. 

Those days are gone now or are they? Maybe they are just evolving a bit or maybe the newspaper ads time they spent is now being used for blog posts on their website and the open house time is still used but enhanced as they also bring their computers and have the listing showing on the tvs throughout the house.

I kno...

Season Greetings from all of us here at DynamicIDX!

If you have a website and you’re using Google Maps then you have a Google Maps API key.  In order to use that key Google requires you to put a credit card on file and they give you $200/mo credit and if you go over that you will get charged.

What many don’t know or are just too busy to know is that your API key is easily found by others and if you did not restrict it to your domain or IP then others could be using your API key costing you money.

Our suggestion is to add a site restriction for each of your Google API Keys and also add a budget so that if you do go over the $200 you will not get an unexpected bill.

Set up a budget:
https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets

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[Update - 6/2/2020]

Dynamic IDX has always put customer service above all else and we want our customers to know your site will stay up during this crisis. We do not plan to enable late fees until August 1st, 2020. If you are unable to get caught up by then please contact us. We are here to help but we can't help if you don't let us know you're in need of help! So please contact us if you need assistance. Thank you.

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Our thoughts and prayers are with all our customers, and we will do all we can to help our customers maintain their online presence. Your website provides a critical connection to your clients, and we understand that during this time, it can be hard to make your p...

Why Dynamic IDX? Our realty tech is the most flexible on the market. We let our clients decided who they want to use for their SEO and Marketing and design and if that provider is not what they want, they can simply change their SEO, Marketing or Design company and not have to up-root their entire site and content to move to another Platform. Dynamic IDX is a fully integrated IDX/MLS for both single agents, teams and brokerages. We have a personal connection with our clients and yes you can reach us by the phone. If you're looking for a personal touch to your business along with a very powerful real estate website solution. Then look no further than Dynamic IDX. Our team has been building...

Why Secure Your Site with HTTPS and SSL?

1. Google ranks HTTPS sites higher.
2. Visitors feel more secure because popular browsers such as Chrome and Firefox have started to alert users against using non-secure sites by displaying warning messages and labeling them “Not Secure”.
3. Facebook requires you to provide a secure URL for your web page in order to set up your Facebook tab.
4. It’s really no longer an option if you want to look professional to your clients

It’s no secret that Google and other search engines now give a possible SEO boost if your site is secure with an HTTPS. A great blog to read about the changes Google made can be read here.

In 2014 Google made an announcement that ...

So you're not getting any leads with your website? Are you just playing roulette with your website money?  The first thing most people do is look at moving to a different website provider, but that’s not always the best solution. 

With most website providers, you don't have the flexibility to select a designer.  You don't receive marketing services or even an SEO expert outside of their company. So in order to have more options, you end up having to move your website to another company. What does that cost? Well let's see... first you have to find a company that has a great reputation. Next, that company needs to have the features that you need to run your business and the flexibility yo...

For the past year, I have had a number of agents come to us from inexpensive $5.00 and $10.00 a month sites who were upset about the money they put into those sites, only to get a site that ran slower and slower every month and was very limited on what they could really do, in return.  Though these inexpensive sites might be okay for a part time agent, full time agents should make a stronger investment when it comes to something that will represent them in their market.

There are a number of Real Estate solutions out there for agents to shuffle through, but if you're really looking for a solid Real Estate website, then you might want to take a few things into consideration.

Below is my l...

Dynamic IDX now supports property emails, as well as property RSS feeds for your clients saved searches. Though we have had RSS feeds for a very long time, we have been asked by our clients to also provide an email system for properties to their clients. We have taken a lot of time to make sure this system was put in place. All emails comply with the unsubscribed standards and are sent from a separate system in order to preserve your email integrity. You will also have the ability to modify the email templates that are going out to your clients. We are not stopping there, there is more coming soon!

I have been working on data feeds for more than 8 years and I am just horrified at how many MLS' have no clue how to even pull their own RETS feeds. We have been dealing with a number of MLS' where they have decided to move to another RETS provider because they are cheaper or because the board made the decision not realizing the impact on their agents and their vendors.

The answer, "other vendors do it" is one that we get when having issues with some RETS providers, and to me, is not a solid response because they have no clue how many hoops other vendors have had to go through in order to change feeds. I would like to see MLS' pull a full feed (in-house) and then a partial feed from thei...

A number of our clients have recently been asking why there is a new keyword in their Google Analytics called "Not Provided". Well, simply put, Google is now encrypting searches performed by those clients of theirs who are logged into Google. Google estimates that the percentage of these users should be in the lower single-digit, but that will depend on your sites traffic. You can read more about this by clicking here. I am all for Google making changes, I just hope they keep the little guys in their line of sight as well.

We have been so busy working on new features and moving Dynamic IDX into new areas, that we have not had the time to post. Today I was asked by one of our designers to read a post she had written based on some stats from a site she just recently moved from one of our competitors platforms.

Agents are always asking me, "what does Dynamic IDX offer that will make me stand out from the other Real Estate websites?"  Well in a word "Traffic". I could spend hours writing up the perfect blog for you to read, but I believe the proof is in the reality of a clients site and how well their site performs after moving from one of our competitors platforms to ours.

If you have a moment, take a look a...