REsource FAQs
What Is REsource?
REsource comes to you from RISMedia, the name you know as leader in real estate news and information delivery to over a million industry professionals and consumers for decades. Today's discerning consumers want information on-demand and REsource offers a flexible, affordable turnkey platform for you to log on, get the content you need and get on with your busy day.
What Type of Content and Tools Are Available through REsource?
Daily Content Updates - Whether it's a videos on critical home buyer and seller issues or compelling business development articles, you'll find compelling content refreshed daily and easily accessible with REsource's intuitive auto-populating search feature.
Robust Article Library - The REsource article library houses thousands of helpful and informative articles from RISMedia archives and is refreshed with new content on a daily basis. REsource's intuitive search feature will help you find exactly what you're looking for quickly. Download or "Remote Publish to Your Blog" using simple setup steps to get your message out quickly.
Extensive Video Library -Today it's all about video. With a simple click of your mouse, you can select from hundreds of RISMedia's powerful consumer-friendly real estate videos on just about any subject of importance to your sphere of influence. Interested in branding REsource videos with your company logo?
Contact REsource today for more information! RISMedia's REsource Video Content Library puts the power of today's most popular form of information-gathering in your hands for easy publishing to your website, blog or social media platforms.
Exclusive Content Tools Want to enhance your existing web apps? REsource's API, may be right for you. Designed for tech-savvy members that are interested in embedding REsource content into their existing applications and websites, this exclusive content tool can be a powerful one for creating ongoing, fresh sources of content direct to your website. Download and localize or edit content so that it is unique and includes your local market information. Have a blog? REsource's Remote Publish feature is another easy way to publish content to your blog automatically. Or enhance your SEO (search engine optimization) value with unique tagline information about you, which appears with every article.
How Much Does REsource Cost?
REsource offers a variety of simple article and video combination packages with monthly or annual subscriptions starting as low as $29.95 per month.
How Does RISMedia License Content to Me through REsource?
RISMedia's REsource article and video content is licensed to you for reproduction on your web-based applications, including but not limited to your website(s), email newsletter(s), blog(s), social media site(s), marketing materials, etc. and print publications and materials under terms outlined under Bylined and Non-Bylined articles.
Bylined/Authored Articles - Can I Edit Them?
Bylined/authored articles may not under any circumstances be edited, rewritten or altered in any way. You must keep the content in its original form, giving credit to the writer by including the writer's byline with the article and without adding or deleting words.
The only addition that may be included with bylined articles is the tagline that you enter in the space provided under My Account/Settings. If populated this tagline will appear with every article you download or remote publish to your blog through REsource. Editing of bylined articles is an infringement of Federal Copyright Law.
http://www.copyright.gov
What about Non-bylined Articles?
Non-bylined articles may be edited for space; you may add and delete portions of the content, however you may not add your own byline to non-bylined articles, even if you have added in local information or other additional copy. Adding in a quote or a related local statistic is a good way to alter non-bylined articles enough so that they become unique content to your site and as such more SEO-friendly (search engine optimization).
How Can I Use REsource Content to Write My Own Bylined Stories?
Statistics, quotes or brief sections of non-bylined REsource articles may be used for articles bylined/authored by you as supporting information in your story. This is a great way to use REsource content to generate your own unique content.
What about Video Content? Can I Edit It?
REsource videos may not be edited, rebranded or altered in any way. RISMedia will be making custom video branding solutions available soon. Contact REsource Customer Support for more information.
Do Other People Have Access to the Content I License?
Yes, REsource article and video content will be purchased by other buyers. RISMedia and authors of bylined and non-bylined articles retain the right to publish REsource articles elsewhere. RISMedia retains the right to publish REsource video content elsewhere.
But What about Duplicate Content? Do I Need to Worry about That?
There is no such thing as a duplicate content penalty. According to Google, there are some penalties that are related to the idea of having the same content as another site, for example, if you are scraping content from another site and republishing it, or if you republish content without adding any additional value.
Downloading or remote publishing REsource content enhances the value of your site's current offerings and is not scraping content from our site. Google has thoroughly covered this subject in its Webmaster Central Blog.
Read about duplicate content here.
Can I Resell REsource Content?
REsource article and video content may not under any circumstances be resold, posted on any site you do not own, or shared or distributed for re-use by non-members of REsource.
How Do I Get Started?
Select a plan that works for your content needs. Select a monthly or annual plan to access fresh content on a more frequent basis. Enter your contact and credit card information and you will be sent a welcome email with your username (email) and password to access the REsource website and article and video content. Never worry about content again!