Create your free account…..
- Click on the Control Panel (right) >>> >>> >>> >>>Control Panel
- At the top of the page you should see a drop down panel colored brown.
- The Control Panel has two links
Register and Recover password
- Click “Register”. Provide your name and a valid email address.
- You will be sent a secure password via email to that address. Check your email for your new password.
- Click on Control Panel and enter.
Username and Password then ‘login’
Once logged in the Control Panel you will see three links:-
- Click New Property Listing link
You are then directed to Add New Listing section where you will enter your property information.
Click on the “Property Listings” click “Add New Listing“.
Ok, now on to your first Property Listing post. First create your post “Title”. This can be anything you want that will describe the listing. It could the the listing “address”, or any other unique thing to describe the property.
Next, in the body of the post, enter all your descriptive text. It can be as long as you like. You don’t necessarily need to include the details like number of bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. because they will be entered separately later on. On the Listing page, all those details will appear in a list to the right of the images.
Title
Create a title for your listing. This should be the address for your property. (Exclude State and Zip)
Body
Enter your descriptive text. It should be as informative as possible. Don’t include details like number of bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. as they will be entered separately later on.
Addingfeatures
The listing “detail” pages has an optional section right under the content area for showing a list of features:
To add that section to the detail page, including all the property’s features, you check off the features on the right side of the post screen:
If you don’t have any features there yet, they are easy to add. Just click the “features” link on the left of the screen:
The minimum you need to do is add a feature name and then click the button on the bottom:
Adding images.
To include photographs of your property and your rooms, click Upload/Insert icon highlighted in red box.
Pick files from your computer to upload.
Select “Save All Changes”
Select “Gallery”
Decide the order that you want the images to appear by dragging images “Up or Down” ( The first image is used for the slideshow).
Select “Save All Changes”
Click ” X ” to close box (Top right corner)
Adding video (optional)
Optionally you can add Youtube or Vimeo video to a listing. The theme will show a thumbnail of the video, and when clicked, it will open up in a lightbox and play. You can add as many videos as you like.
To add video, you need to enter the Youtube or Vimeo URL in the corresponding section. If you want to include multiple videos, enter each URL on a new line.
You also need to add an image that will show as the video’s thumbnail. This can be any image, including a video screen capture, or even just a photo. Enter the URL to the image in the “Video thumbnail image” section. If you have multiple videos, enter each image on a new line.
Entering listing location information
In the Address section, enter the exact listing address. This will be displayed throughout the site, and will also be used when generating the Google Map.
In the “City, State, Zip” section, enter the City, State, and Zip/postal code for the listing. This information will NOT be used for Searching, but it will be shown on the listing detail page. This text will be used as the main heading for property listings. It is also used, along with the “title” of the post, to automatically create the Google Map.
The next 2 settings, “Primary Search Location STATE” and “Secondary Search Location” are very important because they are used when site visitors search the site by location.
Primary Search Location (State)
Choose a location from the dropdown list. This chosen location will be used when people “Search” for listings.
Secondary Search Location (County)
Add your properties County location. This chosen location will be used when people “Search” for listings. (Ensure Spelling is correct.)
Google Maps Location
In most cases, you can leave this section blank. The system will pull the map address from the combination of your post “title” (which should be the address) and the “City, State, and Zip” entry that you made. But if for some reason, Google Maps can’t find the location, or it’s not listed in Google Maps, then in this section, you can manually enter a location.
Property Information
These settings are self explanatory, but there are additional instructions on the listing page.
Property Type
Choose a property type. Righthand column (Important for searching properties.)
(Important for searching properties.)
In the right column of each Property Listing there are sections for ‘Property Type’ and ‘Price Range, simply check off the appropriate one for each Property Listing .
For example, if you are selling Single Family home and the price is $550,000, you could check off the following:
- Property Type: Single Family
- Price Range: $500,000 – $600,000
If you own a Condominium and want to sell it for $165,000, you should check off the following:
- Property Type: Condominium
- Price Range: $100,000 – $200,000
By doing this it will help prospective buyers easily find the price range and the property type they are looking for.
Select “Buy or Rent” (Important for searching properties.)
Last Step…
Click on the Publish / Update button!
