DISQUS

Eric Stegemann · 4 months ago

Hey Jay,
I'll disagree with you on the helping with Search Engines. I've been playing with LME for about 2.5 months now and can assure you that it definitely has helped in Search Engines. For www.STLHomeData.com I put up for 5 days a LME post on Costa Mesa, CA this was well over a month ago and we still rank for Costa Mesa Home Data type searches.

Jay Thompson · 4 months ago

Eric - but what does Google index on these pages? Viewing the source code shows there is practically nothing there. Business names and addresses in the Yelp review section, school names in the education.com section, and that's about it.

I'm clearly no SE expert, I just don't see a whole lot on a LME page to be indexed. Got a link to the specific Costa Mesa post/page?

Eric Stegemann · 4 months ago

Did you know you can type any city name in on your blog now and see a page created on it? ie http://www.stlhomedata.com/local/costamesa,ca/ or for example http://www.stlhomedata.com/local/phoenix,az/

Maybe it's the fact that I have so much other data on the site that Google said oh well the site is about home stats and this is a post on Costa Mesa so clearly it must be about home stats in Costa Mesa?
I need to look into that. But we still get clicks for it. Also we get a lot of clicks about the schools. With back to school we had numerous people trying to find their school website and found us on Google same with other items. Idea is if you can catch someone interested in the data and maybe get them to stick around a second if you offer them good data, maybe you might build a future client....

Personally I think the LME takes WAY too long to load and there are things that need to get cleaned up with it plus add some searching info, but, if nothing else it's getting people to our page right now from a few pages that we have semi hidden.

Drew Meyers · 4 months ago

Jay-
"I'd like to see the ability to get even more specific – down to the zip code level or even subdivision level"

Good news -- ZIP codes will be supported with the next version of the plugin :)

I'll have Andrew look at the recent posts error you mention.

Jay Thompson · 4 months ago

Fabulous!

Also, I've seen the sold homes data come up occasionally but usually it doesn't.

The "Go" button in the WalkScore box looks goofy, as does the selection area in the schools box. (Perhaps that's a function of my content column width and/or my theme?)

JohnLauber · 4 months ago

Thanks for the tip about the lme_client.php and Thesis. Now if they give me a way to turn off the school info (I have that on another page) the neighborhood site I'm using this for will be "complete".

drewmeyers · 4 months ago

The ability to turn off the school module is coming with the next version of this plugin.

paruweb · 4 months ago

New wordpress tool was used to bulid blogs for real estate. Also, the plugin requires a minor edit to work with the Thesis theme used here and on many other real estate blogs.

Jeremy_Hart · 4 months ago

Interesting timing - a reader just sent me an email about Wibiya over the weekend. Off to check it out.

I like the mashup, too - putting as much of that information into one location as possible can only help the consumer ... well done ... again.

costaricaland · 4 months ago

I truly like that bar ! downloading now
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Wayne Harriman · 4 months ago

Jay, I left a comment here yesterday, but it's not here. All I said was I was having trouble installing the LME plug-in. Was there a problem with my comment?

Jay Thompson · 4 months ago

Well that's weird Wayne. I *know* that comment was here, I read it. I may have accidentally deleted it when I was killing off spam comments. Sorry about that!

Someone else using Thesis reported the same problem to me. Apparently my fix doesn't work in all instances.

Drew - can you let the developers know we're seeing trouble with the Thesis theme? If they need any files to look at, let me know...

Andrew Mattie · 4 months ago

@Jay: Can you try to upgrade to the newest version of the LME plugin and let me know if you're still having issues with the Thesis theme? I deployed a fix in 1.0.2 to handle that issue with the Thesis theme (and any other theme that doesn't have a template for just a regular page vs a post). Feel free to get in contact with me directly if you're still having issues or want to provide additional feedback -- you have my info.

JohnLauber · 4 months ago

Andrew,

The only problem was template was mis-spelled. You copied the misspelling above it should be "custom_template.php" The "l" is missing.

Both Jay's and 1.02 worked for me after adding the "l". :)

Andrew Mattie · 3 months ago

Oops, that was stupid on my part. It's fixed in the next version.