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IDXBroker Tutorial Help: How to set up a CNAME / Subdomain on Hostgator for IDX Broker Platinum

IDXBroker Tutorial Help: How to set up a CNAME / Subdomain on Hostgator for your IDX Broker Platinum account. by Charra Bennett-Hammett of http://YourSiteNeedsMe.com 517-917-0582 support@yoursiteneedsme.com Signup for IDXBroker Platinum with NO setup and Free Install into your WordPress Site here: http://yoursiteneedsme.com/sign-idxbroker/

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hi everybody in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to set up a cname or a sub domain name in your Hostgator control panel for your ID Act broker account there are a couple of different benefits for using a cname and the main one is so that when somebody comes to your site and hit search know the URL they are going to go to isn’t going to be on idx program com it’s going to be on your domain name and while idx broker is amazing and the
best idx out there the one that i recommend the most you still want people when they click on your link to go to your domain name and not idx brokers com so that’s for your brand and so people can recognize your domain we want it to be on your domain and idx broker gives you the option to do this they’re so awesome they have a lot of cool things that they offer and this is one of the awesome tools that i love about einige broker so how do we do
this the other benefit before I go on actually is SEO value when Google when somebody Google’s you or Google’s a keyword and they come to your website one of the main things that you don’t want to happen is for somebody to click and leave your site and in this case they’re going to idx broker site they’re not going to your website so this is idx brokers domain anything that comes right before the calm shows you that it’s not your domain name and
you want it to go to your domain names so the idea to broker doesn’t penalize you for that for that keyword so you want to continue to rise up in the search engines and to do so you want people to stay on your site not leave your site so here’s how we’re going to do this you’re going to log into your Hostgator control panel and then over here you have this quick and cool little fine tool and you can just type in deanna’s and then right here you
have your option for domains so you have subdomains you have simple dns don’t editor you have advanced and DNS zone ever so let’s look at what some of these do okay while this loads your sub domain name this is a way to give you an easy sub domain name in Hostgator if you want to create a new directory and you want to have a sub domain this is how i would do that and it’s really just pointing a new domain name a sub domain name to a directory on
in your control panel so if you want to create a new directory and you want to give people needs a way to get there you can say you know my files dot baton that dot in this case Liz Sherman dash realtor calm and give it a directory and at a point directly to that directory maybe it’s videos you’ve uploaded or something like that in this case you’re going to come the simple dns is own odor and you can add an a record a see record and you can see
which ones have already been set this is going to be the one that we are going to use then you have your advanced DNS zone editor and you have a little bit more tools here this is more for the advanced user and really only includes one extra feel depending on which type of record you’re adding so I’m going to use the simple dns zona editor the first thing I’m going to do is select a domain then I’m going to give it a name this is my sub domain
name it’s what’s going to come before the dot Liz Sherman dash realtor com so I want it to be something that then actually I’m in the wrong 1i man a wrecker we’re going to use seening because that’s what we want is a SI name so this is what’s going to come before the dot Liz Sherman dash realtor in my case I use homes for sale pretty regularly if you are in a condo market or a different type of market you may want to use something like condos for
sale or real estate or something like that I like homes for sale it’s also one of the higher keywords that are searched so it adds a little bit of SEO to your domain name and then the sea name is going to be subdomains dot idx broker you should have to green check marks here and you’re simply going to add cname record now if you did it correctly down here you should see it Homes for Sale is Sherman dash well calm sea name under type and the
record should say subdomains idx broker calm now your next step is to log into your ith broker account and now you’re going to go to account account info and right here you’re going to say use a custom domain yes homes dash for cash sale now if you did this correctly assume side tab out of here this is going to go green so watch there it goes green that’s what we want so that’s green and we’re simply going to hit Save Changes the next step for
you is to log into your website go to your idx broker plugin options and refresh your API key and that should change your domain name all over to the proper URL so we’re going to do that next and we’re going to go to initial settings and we’re going to refresh now we’re going to go back to our site and right here we’re going to click on search down and there you go homes for sale that Liz shriman dash realtor.com I hope this tutorial has helped
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Realtors when you need help and don’t want to do it yourself have a great day and thanks for watching