Real Estate News Feeds

[Copywriter]

Does anyone know of a good real estate news feed that DOESN'T cost $499 a year? (Ahem, Inman News...) I am working with a client who wants a news feed on his website, but it seems all the usual feeds will lead you to other real estate agents with a couple of clicks.

Inman News is nice, and you can customize it into the design of your website, but he doesn't want to spend 500 bucks a year for the news, another 500 bucks a year for the glossary, etc.

We don't necessarily have to find something free, although that would be the nicest situation...

Thanks in advance for any advice you could offer.

And have a great weekend everyone!

[Chief Tutor]

I am looking for a real estate news feed as well. The only solution I have been able to find is to use an RSS aggregator like www.newsgator.com (http://www.newsgator.com) I integrate it into a page. See a sample of how I have done it here.

http://www.national-real-estate-directory.com/newsfeeds/california_real_estate_news.html

Not the best solution, but thought I would put the idea forward.

Good Luck and Let me know if you find a better solution.

[Copywriter]

Am I wrong or are most news feeds just a bunch of press releases? Obviously there are exceptions to the rule, but I wonder if there isn't a way to produce your own.

Granted, it would be somewhat time-consuming, but if the demand was high enough...

Thank you for your input. I'll let you know what I come up with.

[Copywriter]

Chief,

Turns out the client went with Inman News. It's $500 a year but you can either (a) host it on your own website (if you know about RSS parsing and other things that are over my head) or (b) send them a template page and they'll host it on their server for no additional cost.

The second option works well with Advanced Access, because you can frame other websites and, if that other website (in this case) looks exactly like the other pages in your website, no one will notice.

[Chief Tutor]

To get any SEO value from offering a full news feed on your website, You have to have it on your domain. If you have them host it on their servers, it is on their domain, and then is no better than an i-frame which is of no value to the search engines.

I would make sure to set it up on your domain. It will be worth the extra cost to get it integrated.

Chief

[E8MC]

I beg to differ with you there, Chief Tutor -- if you are an experienced Webmaster, knowing how to write simple PHP code, you can integrate a number of newsfeeds onto your site, and they do not have to reside on your own domain, nor are they an i-frame.