Major Change Underway with Feeds

Some of you may have noticed a change in our feeds now. We've started our migration with the latest release so all professional and premium members will have their listing feeds link back to their own Point2 Agent website. That is, when you add a listing and syndicate it to our partners such as Google Base, Yahoo Classifieds, Trulia, Oodle etc, the listing link will no longer point to Point2Homes, but rather your own website.

In the next little while, members with a large number of listings should see a significant increase in traffic to their website. Our latest release improved the statistics we have for each listing and we'll be able to show how many click or views you recieved from most of our partners.

Jeff

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Sneak Peak

I can't contain myself. In the next couple of days, we are going to release the biggest single release we've ever pushed. I'm excited, i'm nervous and I really just can't wait to get feedback from our members. I'm going to go out on a limb here post some screen shot of just a couple upcoming improvements.

So the first change you'll notice to the syndication screen is that we will have 1 new partner. I won't say who yet. But the major change is the new look and the introduction of spotlight ads. For this release we'll have a couple of partners participating where you can enhance the placement of your listings.

The next screen shot below is of the advanced reporting for syndication. We've heard from our members that there is nothing as frustrating as syndicating your listing, but not knowing where to find it. So we've developed an API that a couple of partners will be using for this release to a few things. First, here is the screen shot:

Publishing reports are available now so you can see what real estate search sites you have syndicated you listings to, if they have been successfully uploaded, and view them through the url they are published on. If there was an error successfully uploading your listing, an error report will indicate the reason. We will have a couple of partners using this API when we release. Results and feedback will hopefully help bring the rest of our partners on board.

The last screen is of our Listings2Go functionality. It provides some code for you to drop on another website you own and display your Point2 listings. The display settings are completely configurable. The real benefit is that it allows you to have more than 1 website, but keep all your listing stats, prospects and publishing reports in 1 control pannel.

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