As a real estate agent looking to keep buyers and sellers on your website, blog or single property site, you realize the importance of providing local data that provides transparency to your market. Nevertheless finding the right data can be a daunting task. Not only does the data need to be accurate and updated often, but it needs to be presented in a way that encourages consumers to interact with it.
Today I’ll be sharing the Cyberhomes Smart Frame which will allow you to search by city or zip code then retrieve a unique URL to be framed into your site without cost. Although before I do, let’s review some of Cyberhomes strengths:
+ Over 100 million searchable properties with AVM
+ 575,000 records updated monthly
+ School scores
+ City boundaries
+ Neighborhood charts and graphs
+ Interactive heat maps
Ok, now let’s look at the steps needed to get the Cyberhomes Smart Frame on your real estate website or blog:
- Go to CyberhomesPro.com and sign up for a free account.
- Once your account is created, click “Get Cyberhomes Smart Frame now“
- Enter your market area. (i.e. City & State or Zip Code)
- Copy the Smart Frame URL provided (If you are using Cyberhomes Smart Frame on your single property site you can simply add this link to your navigation.)
- Use the code below, replacing Insert Smart Frame URL Here with your Cyberhomes Smart Frame URL provided in step 4.
<iframe src=”Insert Smart Frame URL Here” frameborder=”0″ width=”100%” height=”1700px” scrolling=”no”></iframe>
Now you can insert the iFrame code into a page on your Website or blog. Keep in mind the width of Cyberhomes may be greater that your site. You can restrict the width of our iFrame by changing the width tag in the HTML provided. If you would like more information on including Cyberhomes Smart Frame on your site, watch this video:
I am always looking for ways to improve my website and keep visitors coming back. Even though I am pretty computer litterate, a lot of this tech lingo is new to me. How can I find out more about this if I have trouble?
Yikes, I just watched the utube video and I know almost zilch about HTML. What does a poor soul like me do?
Hi George,
Well I have not seen very much documentation on this feature. However I would be happy to support you. If you experience any troubles, post them here.
To start, what is your website URL? Also what page would you like to add the Smart Frame too?
Note that I'm on vaction, but I will check back to see if you've commented. Hope this helps!
Reggie
Hi Reggie
I think I have everything done correctly but this is what I get http://www.livingtwincities.com/search/cyberhomes…. Maybe you might know what is going on. I am not the brightest when it comes to code but can't figure this out. Thanks
Hey Jason,
OK, I see what you mean. Since Cyberhomes is wide, and your display area is fairly narrow we need to make a few changes. First let's have you change the scrolling. I believe you have it set to scrolling="no" as I said. Try setting to scrolling="auto" . This will all users to scroll and see the hidden data. (Or a more complicated but very useful way would be to create a new template page within WordPress without your current sidebar. Or at least a narrow version. Let me know if you want more info on how to do this.)
To take a way the gray space at the bottom, change the height. I would say 200px less.
Also notice that in the page you are displaying, on the right side about half the way down the page there is a link titled "More about the community and the local housing market". That page may provide more useful info for you to display. To show that page, simply copy that URL and add it to your iFrame in replace of the other.
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ok, I figured how to get the gray, like you said that was just a matter of changing the pixel size in the height. I think there are some other problems that might be coming from Cyberhomes end
Do you have any information on how to change the template page in wordpress that would be easy to follow. Those scroll bars might be sort of a hassle since because like you said that the display area is narrow.
You have already helped out ten fold and I appreciate all the help
Hey Brian,
No problem. I see you are using the Revolution Blog theme. Do you have the ability to FTP a file to your host? If so I have made the necessary changes. Download this file. Then extract the 1 file and add it to your wp-content/themes folder.
To start I downloaded the files from Brian Gardner. I noticed that your design uses two sidebars on the right side. Why don’t we just try removing one? The left one perhaps. He’s what I did…
*Anyone following these steps: I always recommend making a back up of your site files.
1. OK, first let’s make a duplicate copy of the page.php file in the WordPress template directory.
2. I renamed the duplicate copy “page2.php”
3. Then open “page2.php” and insert the following at the very top of the page:
<?php
/*
Template Name: CyberSearch Page
*/
?>
4. Now to remove one of the sidebar’s for more room. In the file “page2.php” remove the following: <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/l_sidebar.php");?>
5. Now FTP (save a copy to the server) of the “page2.php” we created
6. Now go to your WordPress admin and edit the Cyberhomes page you created
7. Under Page Template select “CyberSearch”
8. Click “Save” and check your site…the changes should be live
Now the iFrame can have a larger width. So you should try editing the iFraame code and make the width more like “690px”
If this still is not wide enough, you can remove <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/r_sidebar.php");?> from page2.php. Let me know how this works.
Reggie
I looked into framing this on my blog. Cyberhomes claim that you can choose how to route the leads that are generated from the display from the site:
* Expert lead generation tool and management tools
* Route traffic and leads exactly as you wish
However, there is no documentation on the Cyberhomes site explaining how to do it and no response to an email to Cyberhomes asking for assistance.
I'm passing for now, my business plan does not include displaying the lastest fancy "free" gizmo (leads go to the listing agent by default) and not getting any reward ….
Everything works when I preview the page, but when I publish the page the cyberhomes iframe overlays on the columns which should have been removed because I selected the Cybersearch page. There is also an error on cyberhomes end because it brings up an error has occured message and I cannot search for homes or click on any of the tool bars. As always, thanks for the tremendous help
Hi Reggie,
I am following the directions and for some reason the code drops when I publish the site. Are we able to do this with wordpress.com?
Thanks!
Deb
@Jason- Question for you. Did you use the file I created or did you make the changes yourself? Also once you preview you said it looked ok. Did it only show one sidebar?
Then when you published the page did it show both sidebars? Once you let me know I'll respond back. You can email me directly at renicolay[at]gmail.com.
@Deb- WordPress.com should support this iFrame code when applied to a page. However I have seen times where the WordPress editor magically deletes html code. Is that what's happening?
I used the file that you had created and thanks for doing that by the way. I did it with one sidebar but it wasn't enough so I removed the other one but I followed the steps.
Now that I look at the website, I am having other pages that I created like the google local search that was working but isn't anymore when I published it. It gives me a message 'sorry the page you are looking for cannot be found'. So I am not sure what is going on.
Hi Reggie,
That is correct, and this is not the first html code that was swallowed. It seems that anything other than standard formatting will not make it through the publish vortex.
Thanks,
Deb
@Jason – Ok, I see what was causing you the layout trouble. Add this to "Style.css" in your themes folder:
#contentleft_wide {
float: left;
width: 960;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px 30px 20px 0px;
}
Then redownload the template file here. The upload it and re-select it as the template. This should fix your problem. Let me know.
@Deb – I do know of a plug-in that fixes this issue for WordPress.org users, but not for WordPress.com. I'll see what I can come up with.
looks like a really cool tool. I'll give it a try
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Awesome, thank you and the video makes it easy to understand, I am going to give it my best effort to get this up and running.
How can I get the RHS column on my site to disappear so there is no overlay?
thx
how do i install this on my blog?
how do i add this to website?
so this is the new web..thanks for the post..
thanks for the post..but how do i add them to my site? got no tutorials here..
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