So it does Work. This headline animator will show live inventory information and will update on it's own from the IDX Data Every Day.
Create your account at www.Feedburner.com and use the Headline Animator to add live new listings to your site with your RSS feed of new listings. This is an example of John Hurbons Current Listings in Arizona. The link goes directly to the full details on that property.
It is things like this that will enable you to market yourself better with new technologies such as RSS. I have created the code for his feed. http://www.my-mlsonline.com/feeds/arizona.php is the actual RSS XML file built custom for John. This pulls his current listing inventory and places it in the RSS format. From there people can subscribe to this feed and have it pushed to them on a regular basis.
By tying it to the FeedBurner.com he can now have people subscribe to daily emails and add it to their google.com home pages and more. Yahoo etc.
Let me know if you have any questions of how this will benefit you and your sellers and buyers.
If you want to know more about RSS and really get an understanding of it please watch this video on youtube.com http://youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
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I am the programmer for www.my-mlsonline.com and I set up and create these things for my systems and for custom systems I build. It is quite complex and has taken many years to get this point.
What is your situation? Do you have your own custom Site or office site with IDX?
You may be able to ask the company that takes care of your IDX to create a feed for you. Or you can manually do it by entering your information into a service online. Google XML or RSS feed creator and you will find all kinds of stuff. www.download.com from www.cnet.com is a good source for software. Or lots of free software can be found at www.sourceforge.net and others like that.
The best bet is to have a dynamic feed created from your IDX data so you never have to worry about updating it. That is the whole point of RSS. It works so you don't have to.
Let me know if you need any help with IDX or want me to add your Denver data to my system and get you started.
Brian Blake www.my-mlsonline.com