Facebook Real Estate Application Updated to Support New Layout

Andrea - See you on Wednesday

Christine - Great. Thanks

Gail - Thanks for your kind words. More to come ..

Lori - This is the second time Facebook updated their UI since we have this feature, but at least they gave a heads-up this time so we could be proactive. Thanks for featuring the post. 

Hi Barbara,

To add to Gabe's comment: The Homes for Sale tab can be added both to Facebook Pages and Facebook Profiles. Step-by-step instructions are provided in the RealBird member area under "Widget" or you can call or email for help. These tabs are not indexed by search engines as far as I can tell, so the way people find this tab is when they actually visit your Page or Profile. For example many agents and brokers provide community centric Facebook Pages and they do not want to overload those Walls with real estate listings. The tab application provides a "gentle" way to provide real estate information. For example, on our own RealBird Facebook Page, Facebook Insight reports that our Homes for Sale demo tab receives some 4% of the Page traffic, so people do view that extra info. Finally, we have an earlier post that summarizes other ways you can use RealBird for Facebook marketing

I hope this helps

-- Zoltan

Thanks Barbara

Thanks Robert. It's a simple change of width/height in the code, but you are right, it's better to be proactive with issues like this and we could be, because Facebook had a notification out early enough.

Hi Adrian - Yes there is a newer option (iframe vs the legacy Facebook FBML) Please see our tutorial: http://realbird.wiki.zoho.com/Setting-up-a-Facebook-Fan-Page-with-Homes-For-Sale-Tab.html

The cool thing that you can now also embed the RealBird Property Search (e.g. the map-search) the same way via the iframe app. We'll have a tutorial about that as well