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We just finished implementing another way to help members of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network promote themselves and their businesses online.  As of this morning we are now submitting profiles of members (real estate agents and brokers) into one of Google's newest services, Google Base (beta).

What is google base?

To quote Google, "Google Base is a place where you can post all types of content
and have it show up on Google."  It's essentially a big searchable database of structured content.  This content is then used to populate their various searches such as Google Maps, Froogle, and even their main search.  When content is added to Google Base lots of attributes are attached. This make it much more useful from building searches results than data collected crawling a web page.

Lately in the real estate space, Google Base has gotten a lot of buzz as a place to promote real estate listings.  But they also have a catagory for Real Estate - Services, which is where we started adding our members.  We are also submitting blogs to their Blogs catagory.  While Google Base is still relatively new and I can't tell you exactly where these submitted profiles will appear in their searches, we are helping our members get in at the ground floor of something that may be potentially huge.  I'll write more on Google Base's potential in my personal blog tonight.

Screenshot of searching for real estate services in Seattle in Google Base:

-Matt Heaton (ActiveRain CEO)

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JUL
20
2006
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Matt, I just had someone indicate that you are planning to start "charging" in September. Is there any truth to that?

11:40am • #20
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No, there is absolutely no truth to that at all... 
11:43am • #21
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Didn't think so. I set the record straight.
12:21pm • #22
1,306,788 Points 96 Featured Posts Outside Blog Hit Router Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master
Free advertising!!  That's great!
5:05pm • #23
This is absolutely fantastic!!!!!
11:22pm • #24
JUL
21
2006

Hi Matt,

When I searched my area (Annapolis, Maryland) in the Google Base real estate services, the Google Map only placed a marker by one of the agents in this city.  (And it wasn't me).  There are three ActiveRain agents in Annapolis, and all showed up with the results, but only 1 was mapped.  I've entered my office address on my profile page.  Any idea why it wouldn't come up on the map?

Thanks for all your work and this new submission for ActiveRain agents. 
12:05pm • #25
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Probably the reason it only showed one marker on the map is all three were in the same location.  We were only able to push city, state as the location instead of a full address because google compained about so many of the addresses being invalid, even though they looked valid to me.  It's one of those things to go on the list and try to get sorted out.
4:26pm • #26
JUL
24
2006
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Very cool. I can see how this will really increase exposure for the members. Do you think we could expand this to where we could geocode our posts or our profile? That way you can push that info, too.
2:36pm • #27
JUL
28
2006

I love free advertising also!!
9:37pm • #28
JUL
30
2006
 How often are these uploads to Google Base performed / scheduled?
6:01pm • #29

The way content is pushed into Google Base it's a fairly manual process right now.  It takes about 5 minutes of time to do, so we'll do it every couple days.  So if you are a new member and not showing up, it'll just take time.
7:15pm • #30
AUG
02
2006
wow this is good to know
6:17pm • #31
what about non agents and brokers? Anything coming up for them?
9:44pm • #32
AUG
05
2006
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Be interesting to see if it affects SE rankings for other sites as well.
6:52pm • #33
AUG
14
2006
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You mentioned that you are submitting them for brokers and realtors...

 What about other members?  like... home inspectors?  :)
4:29am • #34
AUG
17
2006
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Wow, this rocks.  Did I say yet that I am very impressed so far.
9:26am • #35
NOV
15
2006
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Exploring uncharted territory is what it's all about... or going where no man has gone before...

This is great, thank you!
6:41pm • #36
NOV
27
2006
451,081 Points 64 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Hi Matt

Thank you so much for including us on the cutting edge of technology. You are amazing.
5:36am • #37
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Thanks, Matt. We appreciate all the promotion. It's fun to see ourselves places. We'd never have time to do all this ourselves. I've set up a google alert on my name, and nearly every day I appear through ActiveRain (at least the days that I post).
6:39am • #38
SEP
25
2007

I notice this blog is a little old but this information is still very good. I had no Idea that Google Base had real estate on it. I found this all out yesterday. And it seems this site as been up since 2006 or so. Where have I been? Thanks for the info.
12:13pm • #39

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