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How to Put Listings in Your ActiveRain Blog Sidebar

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Marketing Specialist for CJ Realty Group/Cindy Jones Broker

We use Vflyer for listings in our sidebar.  Vflyer is a free service as well and you can create a widget from your listings to place in the sidebar of Active Rain.

Original content by Fran Gatti OR#200608197

Postlets in blog sidebarHow to put listings in your ActiveRain blog sidebar -

I have had many emails from AR folks asking me how I put the listings in the sidebar of my blog.  I know there is another post out there in AR land saying how to do it because that is how I learned, but rather than go look for it, here it is, my way.

I use www.postlets.com for my sidebar listings, plus I use postlets to post listings as a blog post and to syndicate my listings to many other websites. I use the free version of postlets (I always use the free version in everything I do on the net if one is available).

Create an account if you don't have one, then walk throught the steps to create a listing. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the last page, postlets gives you the HTML to paste your listings in various venues.  I use the medium HTML code pictured here. Copy this code, be sure to scroll all the way over to the right to get it all...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the "My Home" link in the top right hand corner of any AR page.  Scroll down the page and on the left hand side you will see the settings link. Click that link.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are going to paste the postlet code in the "Blog Description" box.  As you can see here I have several in my box because I have a lot of listings in my sidebar.  I put a space between them so it is easier to add and remove listings as needed. 

You have to go to the postlets website periodically and renew your listings or your sidebar will have some error messages in it where the listing should be.  Also, if you change a postlet listing,  for instance, add new pictures, postlets automatically updates your sidebar listings, so you do not have to repaste this code after you update a listing.

I hope I made this tutorial easy to understand. If you run across any problems, please do not hesitate to email me. 

Thank you.

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Thank you for stopping by. Your comments on this post are welcomed and appreciated.

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Comments (4)

June Tassillo
Owner/Broker RE/MAX Elite Realty - Franklin, NC
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Pat ~ Thanks for posting this.  I too use the free version of Postlets and will use your easy step by step do this.  I been wanting to anyway and forget to even search for a blog and now is the perfect time to do so.   

Dec 26, 2009 12:41 PM
Lottie Kendall
Compass - San Francisco, CA
Helping make your real estate dreams a reality

Hi Pat -- nice to know there's another service with another way to do this. So much to learn.

Dec 26, 2009 12:44 PM
Kate Elim
Dockside Realty - Spotsylvania, VA
Realtor 540-226-1964, Selling Homes & Land a

Hi Pat...Thank you for re-blogging such a helpful post.  I'm going over to Fran's blog to thank her also.

Kate

Dec 26, 2009 12:45 PM
Pat Fenn
Marketing Specialist for CJ Realty Group/Cindy Jones Broker - Springfield, VA

June-thanks go to Fran for her original post.

LOttie-we use Vflyer and the process is the same

 

Kate-glad you found the post and hope it works for you.

Dec 28, 2009 11:01 AM