Yahoo’s information says it may take 3-5 days for intial feed – it has been weeks, still nothing shows. And many of our agents were already there using homesandland.com advertising and their syndication program. The homes and land listings are still there, not our broker feed yet.

I can’t find any realistic articles about this subject – just how great syndication is. For me, it is not so great so far, especially when agents are checking daily and do not see their updates.
Anybody have an wisdom – besides “syndicate with us!”?

Each site we built, I can program a property list data feed xml file generated from my own database. I would like to find out a good real estate listing syndication service (quality and cost effective, no or less ads etc.). Plus, I would like that real estate listing syndication service be able to come to my web site such as http://www.mysite.com/syndication/listing.xml to fetch the data every day and then syndicate it to dozens major listings.

does postyourlistings.com do that? fetch the data from my xml data feed file created my own site’s database? Many sites I have seen either get mls data or the agent have to manually put in. I am looking for the good service but also auto fetch data from my xml data feed file on my site.

Thanks!

For a large number of listings you should take a look at this site. Their program will create the syndication feeds directly from your database.

http://www.artis-usa.com/Products/RES/RESCorp.asp

The service is very inexpensive and the customer service is excellent. You can be the least tech-savvy person in the world and still use the service! Very easy.

I’m hoping you can help me. I’m working on a project for my broker to see if there is a more cost effective way to handle syndication than the current Premium membership at Point 2. We are in the process of moving the website to a Wordpress blogsite, and don’t really need the P2 site anymore other than for 3 things:

- easy syndication with an agent assigned to each listing so their picture and contact info is listed with each listing
- ability to use widgets so that the agents with websites can have their own listings on their websites, but all will also be on the broker site
- some way for the agents that don’t have their own websites to have a profile page (we might be able to do this through the Wordpress site)

I’ve looked at most of the services you listed here, and am having trouble finding one that can handle my 1st need. Any suggestions that would be less expensive than $120 per month for a large number of listings?

You are right with regards to Postlets…they provide HTML code that I can easily paste into craigslist. However, as an example, post1ad.com. They advertise doing the posting for you which is clearly not allowed.

Interestingly enough, I emailed postyourlistings.com twice and asked them about this, and nobody responded to me.

Also, there is another company you should take a look at: http://MyMarketWare.com. It’s super easy to use, 100’s of beautiful templates, great mapping features and over 70 automatic links to area amenities based on the address you submit. AND once you create and publish your MarketWare listing site, you can easily highlight the HTML code for a beautiful full color posting at Craigslist. But again….consider posting to Craigslist once a week. MyMarketWare syndicates to Trulia, Yahoo, Google, Propsmart, Oodle, Homescape, Cast & Local.

nice companies.

We are always adding new real estate portals that generate buyer leads for our agents and brokers.

It’s not the number of portals, but how many leads they produce.

The big lead generator right not is craigslist. The difference between postlets, vflyer and us, is we have a direct interface with craiglist.

There is no cutting or pasting html.

We also have thousands of local town web sites that help agents as a listing tool and increase web presence for their listings.

I also have a Z57 site and love it. There syndication is great and they are definitely on there game.