RealBird Blog

During the weekend we released a fun and helpful service at http://search.realbird.com It is a search engine based on the Google Custom Search technology and indexes only real estate related websites. Compared to the regular Google Search, this service queries only verified real estate websites. 

The search engine is configured in a way that it will return results from not only the 6 sites listed below but from all the linked sites on those, that is, your outside real estate websites, custom blogs, virtual tours etc.

   

  

  

 

Sample searches

Searching for a real estate professional: Mirela Monte or Bill Gassett or Janie Coffey 

Searching for market data: San Diego market update

Searching for real estate terms: Real estate capital gain

Searching for industry news: IndyMac

 

Widget to take the search box with you

You can grab the search engine widget here. In order to add it to you ActiveRain sidebar or an ActiveRain post, please use the iframe widget on this page.

How to see if your website and blog is included?

You can check if your real estate website or blog is included by using the regular Google site:domainname.com syntax. Do not add http:// in front.

For example see: site:www.sellmyhomeinmetrowestma.com

What to do if your website/blog is not yet included?

While the search engine is configured to pick up linked websites and blogs, it may miss some of them. In case the test described above does not return results from your website or blog, just add your domain name below as a comment and upon verification we'll include your site manually, ASAP.

 

-- Zoltan
RealBird.com

 

Sherry Armstrong with her listing: Oceanfront Home in Daytona Beach Shores

Congratulation !

As many of you know, we were running a sweapstakes last week to give away a direct editorial link from one of  Google's blogs. We really appreciate the participation of all of you and your enthusiasm. It is our top post on ActiveRain with the most comments. We'll definitely keep doing more sweepstakes here. It was a lot of fun.

Thank you for everybody who helped us promote it. 

You can see the link to Sherry's property on Google's post. It's linked through the RealBird text.

 

-- Zoltan
RealBird.com

In March 2008, - when we released the Google Street View integration for the RealBird single property websites -, we were fortunate to be presented as one of the a case studies on one of Google's own blogs. Even better, they linked to one of the property websites we featured as an example. That's right, an editorial link directly from Google herself to a then active, for-sale listing. Unfortunately, that particular property website has been deleted by our client and that led to an interesting situation: there is a link currently active on one of Google's very own blogs, pointing to a RealBird property website with "Property information no longer available" content. Now that's a waste of link love and goodwill, don't you think? We would like to redirect this link to a current listing website of one of our members. So here we go:

Sweepstakes

To be fair to all of our current and future clients, we decided that we are going to randomly select a RealBird listing which has Street View coverage available.

Pre-requisites:

1. Be a real estate agent/broker - residential or commercial
2. Be the listing agent/broker of the property advertised
3. Street View coverage must be available for your property address

In order to participate for free, all you have to do is:

1. Post your listing on RealBird (signup or login to create your property website, it's free)
   
2. Copy your RealBird single property website Url below as a comment

That's it. Please note, that we can only redirect to a listing website for which Google Street View is available because the Google post is explicitly referencing 3rd party Street View implementations. Other than that, any type of listing will work (residential, commercial, rental etc.)

The sweepstakes will run till January 17, 2009. No purchase is necessary, the RealBird Listing Publisher is a free service. We will randomly select the listing from the entries submitted as a comment.

There are three distinct benefits here:

1. Direct click-through traffic from Google's blog
   
2. Direct link from Google's blog for SEO
3. Most importantly: another power-marketing tool to present for your current and future sellers. This is a one time, special and a lucky opportunity for all of us. I am not aware of any other time, when a for-sale property was directly linked from Google's blog. Google is such a huge brand that all of your sellers will instantly recognize the value of their listing being linked from Google's blog. And even better, that is an achievement they will attribute to you, their real estate professional.
   

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-- Zoltan
RealBird.com

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