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Conversions to Real Pro Gold3 Completed

Monday, June 15th, 2009 by Caine O'Brien

After introducing Real Pro Gold3 last fall, we offered our clients the opportunity to get a website makeover which provides a complete website transformation from Real Pro Gold version 2 to the newer version, and also includes completely new layout and branding. To date, nearly 1/3 of our clients have opted for the makeover and are enjoying the updated look and feel of our new designs.

However, we remained committed to providing the benefits of Real Pro Gold3 to our loyal clients who preferred to stay with the website design they already had. By the end of May we completed the conversions for all of our clients keeping their older designs, and are pleased to report that the conversion process went very smoothly.

To the extent the technology of the “classic” designs permitted, all of the features offered in Real Pro Gold3 are now available, with only a few exceptions. New features available include vastly improved SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tools, listing syndication, blog syndication, and far more flexibility for creating new website pages. We hope you all are enjoying the advantages of Real Pro Gold3!

Real Pro Gold 3.2 – Release Notes

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 by Joe Lininger

Real Pro Systems has been hard at work to improve you real estate agent website. We are happy to announce the following enhancements in our release of Real Pro Gold 3.2.

  • Top Producer 8i Integration: Share web leads with your Top Producer 8i account. Real Pro Systems provides three convenient ways to share leads between these two systems, described in this Application Note.
  • New Navigation Builder: It’s now easier than ever to modify your website menu. Create second and third level menu items, link to established content, new custom pages, or outside links. This enhancement is available for all websites built on the new design.
  • Tag-based Listing Pages: Create a special custom page to display a subset of featured listings using our enhanced tagging system. Tag-based listing pages (with custom title and text) promote a unique niche of listing to your web visitors. So, if you have tagged a bunch of listings as “condo,” you can then create a custom page that features all of your listings tagged with “condo.” You can view an example here: http://www.gold3demo3.com/Properties/VacationTag-based listing pages are extremely useful for promoting subdivisions, neighborhoods, water front homes, and other specialty areas. This enhancement is available for all websites built on the new design.
  • Custom Page Templates: Create new custom pages with our library of custom page templates. There are nine available as of this writing. This enhancement is available for all websites built on the new design.
  • More Featured Listing Photos: Upload up to 27 photos per featured listing.
  • Default Controls for Featured Listings: Control how your featured listings are sorted on your real estate agent website.
  • Sitemap Submissions: Ping service has been activated for your Real Pro Gold sitemap. Our system pings Google, Google Blogs, Yahoo, Ask, and MSN services with new updates to your real estate agent website.
  • Contact Page: We’ve added a fresh new look to your general contact page, accessible from the link in your agent profile widget that appears on the right hand side of your real estate agent website.
  • PDF Property Flyer: A special link to a preformatted featured property flyer is available on Real Pro Gold and Silver sites built on the new design.
  • Blog – Future Dates: Type your blog post today, and have the system publish the article on a specified date in the future.
  • Blog – Post to Twitter: Twitter users are able to push their new blog posts directly to their Twitter account. Tinyurl links are automatically generated and posted when you activate the Twitter publishing option.* Stay up to date on RPS updates by following our Twitter accounts:
    http://www.twitter.com/realprosystems (official announcements)
    http://www.twitter.com/realprojoe (unofficial observations)
  • Blog – Ping Service: The following sites are pinged when you update your blog:
    • http://rpc.pingomatic.com
    • http://ping.feedburner.com
    • http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
    • http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
    • http://rpc.twingly.com
  • Blog – Collapsible Archive: Readers have the option of expand or collapsing your archive for easier, cleaner navigation.
  • Enhanced Guest Registration: Website guests now register via the Total Access lightbox. This enhancement is available for all websites built on the new design.
  • RSS Feed Enhanced: RSS feeds now include featured listings in addition to your blog posts.
  • Email Counter: An email volume counter is accessible within the email blaster section of your control panel.
  • SEO Controls: Enhanced search engine optimization controls have been added throughout your admin panel, allowing maximum access to SEO settings.

Along with these items, we have made some optimizations to both the database as well as caching which should help keep performance high and in some cases improve performance.

We hope you enjoy these enhancements.