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How to set up your feeds for
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Google Base Real Estate Feeds
If you do not have a Google account for your business, this is a good
time to get started with one as Google continues to provide tools that
are of great assistance to businesses.
It's important to remember here that you should not be using your
personal Google or Gmail account for the Real Estate Feed. You will be
presented with a settings tab once you login and view the administration
area for Google Base.
You can only associate one website for your feed listings so if you have
two businesses, each one needs a separate Google account to create a
external feed.
Initial Google Account Signup:
1. Pull up the following page: http://www.google.com/base
2. Make sure on the top right it only displays a “Sign In” link and not
your personal Gmail / Google account. If that is the case, click logout.
3. In the middle of the page there is a link to “Data Feed” Click that
link and at the Google Login page click, Don't have a Google Account?
Create an account now.
4. Fill in the basic information about your new Google account. And
click “I accept create my account.”
5. Check your e-mail for the activate link they provide to finish this
portion of adding your real estate feed to Google base.
6. Once logged in, click the Data feed link again, sign in with your new
Google account if you don't get redirected directly to the
Administration dashboard.
Google Base Administration:
There are two main tabs containing information about your account and
the xml Real Estate feed.
Settings Page:
Display name - Name of your company or organization. This name will be
displayed with your items. Please do not include promotional text.
Description - No more than 400 characters.
Website URL
My Items Page:
There is a sub tab on the My Items tab for “Data feeds” you will be
adding your feed from that link.
1. Click the “New Data Feed” button
The next page should take you to the “Set up data feeds” but if there
were setting edits that need to be made first, the “Settings” page will
be displayed with the “Set up data feeds” as the next page.
2. Add the file name of your feed. It will be GoogleBaseData.xml
3. Select Housing from the drop down list.
4. Click “Register data feed and continue to formatting instructions »”
5. On the next page click “I'm done formatting my file. Continue to
upload »”
6. You are now back on the main My Items page. You will see your new
feed and a column called Uploads. There is a schedule listing with an
“edit” button. Click that “edit” button.
7. Copy and Paste in the complete URL to your feed.
Ex: http://rentalhomesavailable.com/RHA/{your account number} /GoogleBaseData.xml
8. Select a time for Google to look at your feed. Feeds are generated
daily so you could select something like 6am. Google will continue
checking back to your feed daily for updated listings.
9. Wait till the following day, and do some searches against http://Google.com/base
for your listings.
No work is required after you initially setup the feed and they review
and approve it. Listings will continue to be generated daily for this
service.
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Zillow Real Estate Feeds
1. Pull up the following page: http://www.zillow.com/broker/RealEstateBrokerSignup.htm
2. Type out all of your basic information about your Real Estate website
including e-mail address, you can provide a company Logo and some
additional information about who you are.
3. Under the “Feed Protocol” Section, leave that selected as HTTP
4. “Feed URL” Copy and Paste in the complete URL to your feed.
Ex: http://rentalhomesavailable.com/RHA/{your account number} /ZillowData.xml
5. After filling in the additional fields for contact information, click
“Submit”
6. Your feed will be live in an estimated 72 hours but Zillow is not the
best about keeping to this schedule.
No work is required after your initially setup the feed and they review
and approve it. Listings will continue to be generated daily for this
service.
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Trulia Real Estate Feeds
Initial Trulia Feed Addition:
1. Pull up the following page: http://www.trulia.com/submit_listings/
2. Past your XML Real Estate feed location into the following box
Best — enter an xml data feed
http://rentalhomesavailable.com/RHA/{your account number} /TruliaData.xml
3. Click “Enter”
4. On the following page, enter information about your company and click
“submit”.
5. Your feed will be reviewed and you will receive an e-mail
confirmation when the listings are ready to be included in the Trulia
searches. They may take on average 3 business days or more.
No work is required after your initially setup the feed and they review
and approve it. Listings will continue to be generated daily for this
service.Trulia is only for 'sales' not rentals right now. Do not
enter VACANT rentals under Trulia or they will be ignored.
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Oodle Real Estate Feeds
Initial Oodle Feed Addition:
1. Send Oodle an email at feed@oodle.com.
Please include the location of your feed, as well as the source name you
would like have a listing attributed to (examples: Efficient Management
Feeds, Available Properties).
Example:
Hello Oodle Team,
We have an xml data feed we would like included in your real estate
listings.
Company Name: My Company Name
Feed Location: Ex: http://rentalhomesavailable.com/RHA/{your account
number} /OodleData.xml
Thank you for your assistance in getting us found in more ways on the
Internet.
Sincerely,
Your name
Your contact information
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