Colony One External Real Estate Feed info for Google, Zillow, Tulia, and Oodle. The xml feeds for your site will be generated once a day. These feeds hold all of your active Property listings. There are currently 4 separate feeds because they require different information depending on the website provider they are being submitted to. Below are the URL’s to each for your reference followed by submission instructions.
Google
http:// {Your_Domain} /Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Google_com/ {SiteID} .xml
Zillow
http:// {Your_Domain} /Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Zillow_com/ {SiteID} .xml
Trulia
http:// {Your_Domain} /Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Trulia_com/ {SiteID} .xml
Oodle
http:// {Your_Domain} /Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Oodle_com/ {SiteID} .xml
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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 including things like these Base listings as well as other things like Documents, and even receiving payments on line through Google Checkout.
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 your COOLSite Site ID plus .xml on the end.
Ex 10486.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:// {Your_Domain} /Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Google_com/ {SiteID} .xml
{Your_Domain} is substituted with your Domain Name and {SiteID} is substituted with your COOLSite ID. eg. http:// Colony1.Net/Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Google_com/12345.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.
Zillow Real Estate Feeds
Initial Zillow Feed Addition:
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:// {Your_Domain} /Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Zillow_com/ {SiteID} .xml
{Your_Domain} is substituted with your Domain Name and {SiteID} is substituted with your COOLSite ID. eg. http:// Colony1.Net/Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Zillow_com/12345.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.
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
Ex: http:// {Your_Domain} /Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Trulia_com/ {SiteID} .xml
{Your_Domain} is substituted with your Domain Name and {SiteID} is substituted with your COOLSite ID. eg. http:// Colony1.Net/Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Trulia_com/12345.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.
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: Oak Town Free Press, BoatsDirect.com).
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:// {Your_Domain} /Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Oodle_com/ {SiteID} .xml
{Your_Domain} is substituted with your Domain Name and {SiteID} is substituted with your COOLSite ID. eg. http:// Colony1.Net/Ext_RE_Feeds/extfeeds/Oodle_com/12345.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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