WolfNet

**maui** · 02-24-2010, 04:04 PM

thanks for the post, nofluffs. I will check it out and post reviews accordingly. Great tool to have, by the way.

**nofluffreviews** · 02-24-2010, 05:10 PM

good deal, thanks for your initial feedback and future feedback is always appreciated. More editor reviews coming soon...

**KarenA** · 02-27-2010, 06:57 AM

The REALTOR I work with uses Wolfnet. Can someone explain to me the relationship between IDX and Wolfnet? Is IDX the database and Wolfnet pulls information from it?

Thanks!

**nofluffreviews** · 02-27-2010, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by KarenA

The REALTOR I work with uses Wolfnet. Can someone explain to me the relationship between IDX and Wolfnet? Is IDX the database and Wolfnet pulls information from it?

Thanks!

KarenA,
IDX is an industry acronym for Internet Data Exchange and simply describes how wolfnet, or any other IDX System/Service provider, gets the housing data from your local MLS. Wolfnet is one, among many, IDX service providers. Real Estate agents and brokers use IDX systems so they can effectively display all of the housing data (listings) in the MLS on their own websites.

Hope that helps.

**KarenA** · 02-27-2010, 09:27 AM

It does. Followup question - how does that data get into the IDX.

I'm really sharing how clueless I am!

**nofluffreviews** · 02-27-2010, 12:35 PM

the listing data comes from the MLS. MLS's make the data available in various data formats and the IDX providers then download the data into their own systems. Then the repackage it, add some contact management features, email marketing, etc. and sell it to real estate agents & brokers typically on a subscription basis.

**jamesww** · 03-01-2010, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by MLS Maps

We have links to over 200 agents site with IDX. Most of them now offer MLS map search and my experience is that Wolfnet has the best map based search technology on the market. I have personally seen examples of map based search from just about every vendor in the US and no one is offering the functionality that I've seen with the Wolfnet tool.

Wolfnet does not have a bad product but there are others that blow it away making it not even a contest. for example Diverse Solutions IDX map search stomps Wolfnet. You can see it in action at this link http://houstonhomesforsale.org/buyer...n-home-search/.

**agentsranking** · 03-17-2010, 12:33 PM

Isn't Wolfnet a framed solution?

Does anyone have a list of non-framed idx providers?

**nofluffreviews** · 03-17-2010, 01:38 PM

I've built a decent list @ nofluffreviews dot com. Click on IDX systems, find Dynamic Page Solutions - click and on the detail screen you can click next to "SEO indexable MLS listings: "Yes, requires providers cms" to get all IDX systems with that same feature. Hope that helps...

The exception here is 1parkplace. Their base system is iframe however they have a blogging cms that allows them to embed listing data via rss into blog posts, but again only if you use their CMS.