How to Promote Listing Sites With Widgets

Think about all that data you now have in your account – You have set up your Agent’s listing sites, and can see all of their “For Sale”, “SOLDs”, “rentals” and more! Wouldn’t it be great to re-use that on other websites by simply adding a line of code to show, for example, all your Agent’s SOLDs? Well that’s what the WIDGETS do! A widget is a chunk of code than you can easily cut and paste and drop onto any web page to add additional features or functionality to your web site. Using widgets, you can easily decorate your own website or blog page.

Create a New Widget

From the Manage Sites page in your user dashboard, click on the “Create / Embed Widgets” link in the Marketing Tools column. You can then choose what type of widget you want, whether it is for a single property, a property map, a scrolling view of many properties, or a thumbnail view of many properties. Click on the image of the widget you want to create.

You can then choose which Agents Listings to show in the widget with, and select the status type of the properties you would like to include (for sale, for lease, sold, etc.). Then simply copy the embed code and insert it into the HTML of whatever website page you want. (NOTE: The embed codes must go into the actual HTML code of your site, so if you are unaware on how to do this please ask your website administrator, or contact us.)

Feature Specific Listings with Widgets

To set up a new widget to showcase ONE property site, simply navigate to the “My Sites” tab (located on the bottom half of the Manage Sites page in your user dashboard) and click on the link that says “Edit & Promote” (Circled below in red).

Click on the “Feature listing with widget” link, copy the HTML code provided on the next page, and embed it within the code of whatever page you want to. We have provided you with both a javascript code as well as IFRAME code, so feel free to use whichever one you need based upon what your website supports. (NOTE: The embed codes must go into the actual HTML code of your site, so if you are unaware on how to do this please ask your website administrator, or contact us.)

See how to setup and use Widgets

Watch the video to the left to walk through the steps to creating widgets.