There are 13,000 of you who have an Active Rain blog AND active profiles on Zillow. As of today, and thru collaboration with the good folks at AR, you now have a link from your Zillow profile to your Active Rain blog! Just one more way people can find the great content so many of you produce.
If you have an active, PROFESSIONAL (not a regular user) account on Zillow, a link to your blog will automatically appear. But we didn't stop there, you can now also add your Twitter handle, a link to your Facebook profile and a link to your LinkedIn information.
I am really excited about this change because it is so important to tie everything you are doing socially, together on the web, to help build your online reputation.
Steps to edit/add your Profile:
1) If you don't already have an active account, here is a link to start building your free Zillow profile.
2) Log on to the site and go to your Profile. Click the Edit button.
3) Next, simply add your information in the respective fields.
4) And you are all done!
Big thanks to Active Rain for making this happen! Also, don't forget that you can include even more (followed) links within the marketing text of your profile. For example, link to some of your favorite or more helpful posts to drive even more traffic to them.
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Very cool Sara. How about Zillow give us the ability to have our AR blog or any other blog go to Zillow via RSS? Now THAT would be really cool.
This is great information. I've already updated my zillow profile.
Thank you Sara! This is a very cool tool for AR members and Zillow users. I do have a Zillow profile to I use to upload my listings so I will have to see if this means I have a "Professional" account or if I am just a regular user! I love the idea of linking all of the social sites together!!!
Nice. The more exposure the better - Thanks AR!
Thanks Sara. I just went and added my blog to my Zillow profile. That was easy!
It's always something...the more the better but I need to go on vacation and I can't get up from the computer! Thanks!
Just went and updated - a god thing since I haven't been on Zillow in forever.
Sara - Zillow was one place that I had not yet added my profile. Thanks to your post, I do now!!
I 2nd Bryants request. This is actually what I was thinking you were referring to when I clicked on the post.
Thanks Sara... I get a lot of traffic to my AR blog via Zillow!... much appreciated...
I second what BB said above. And I just went and did a little updating. What about FaceBook Fan Pages? We have those, too...
I just updated my profile...thanks!
Thanks Sara, I just set my zillow account up. You made it very easy. Thank you so much!
Thanks Sara, I just set my zillow account up. You made it very easy. Thank you so much!
Wow - thanks for letting us know. I hadn't filled in the info for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or my AR blog. But I have NOW!!
Bryant's right..tit for tat would be sweet.
Thanks Sara, I'm going to go check it out right away.
Hi Sara~ I am going to go and do this after this comment. Hopefully it will be easy...
That is pretty cool. I think I only have a regular account. Do you think I should upgrade?
Great information Sara. That should make our life a lit bit easer.
SZarah - thanks a lot for reminding us to update our profiles. For me it was a good call to go to Zillow and check out my updates. Hope, you will like the Bryant Tutas' RSS idea . That would be cool!
great information thanks
Thanks, Sara. That was easy!
I'm off to go look into this and make sure everything is set up.
Great information. And I love those screen cap edges. Very cool!
Sara..... OK.. you have my attention... Ibook marked this to come back to this week and attempt to set this up.. Please remind me by Friday in case I get mind boggled... :)
Very cool, Sara. And I have to save I like Broker Bryant's suggestion. Keep up the good work on evolving with the times and keeping the needs of consumers, and agents, in mind.
Jeff
Very nice Sara, I logged in and there was my AR Blog Link! Cool. I also added my other links as well. Thanks! John
Just added to my to-do list tomorrow... thanks!
Thanks for the info. I'll have to check this out.
Thanks Sara - just went over and made the updates. Also noticed a ton of widgets that are now available too, very cool! :-)
Wow Sara. This is a drop-everything! I'm so glad you provided explicit instructions. I'm off to do my upgrade now.
Thanks, Sara. All done. These are great new enhancements...and reminded me to tweak my facebook settings.
Sara,
Sounds great. I have a profile, but I'll stop by tomorrow and check out the new link. Thanks.
Nice addition to the features at Zillow, thanks for the update, we'll have to update our profile.
Sara, Zillow is really progressive in working with us - thanks for the great customer service on that issue I had recently - on a Sunday no less!
Sara,
Thanks for the helpful tips.
Sara, I have had my Activerain blog, linked to my Zilllow account since becoming a member, Is there a way that a logo-or-badge can appear, noting that the website is an A/R blog link?
Wow, thanks just did the updates. Now to put that badge on my site. I like BB idea. If we could add our posts to Zillow via RSS. Any plans in the works for that ?
Great info, thanks.
This is a very good idea for agents to gain better exposure. I'll pass this one along.
Sara, thanks for the tip. I went through and did it step by step from your post! Thanks again.
Sara: Thank you. I'll see if I can go in and update my profile. I got an inquiry yesterday although it may be someone shopping me and I usually don't get those loans as I'm not the cheapest. Keep up the great work!
Sara,
Thanks for that info. I've gone over and updated it all now we're in business. Really appreciate these tips.
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Thanks Sara. Thanks for the reminder.
Thanks for the tip!
As it turned out I had a lot of info the needed updating on Zillow.
That is great news. Will check back in to update my profile right now.
Great idea. Thanks.
Thanks for the great idea, Sara. I setup my profile on Zillow about a month ago (but forgot about it!!!). Your post timing couldn't have been better. I just updated my Zillow profile, adding my blog link and a photo. Keep it coming!
Thank you so much for the tip. I didn't know.
Good idea - thanks for the info.
Thanks for the info Sara. I'll go see what it's all about! Some days I feel as if I go from on site to another in order to keep current with everything!
Done. Thanks for the heads up.
Hey all! Sorry for the delayed response, I have been computerless for the last 24 hours (and somehow I survived!) Glad to hear this has been easy for everyone to set up.
Byrant and all- RSS feeds are definitely on the to do list! This was just our first roll out of social media connection products. It is a little ways out yet, but coming! I'll be sure to post about it when we have it!
Lane- No immediate plans to add a Fan Page link, but good suggestion. You can definitely add the link within the marketing text though.
Melissa- You indeed do have a professional acct, notice the "agent" badge by your name. No "upgrades" necessary. I would recommend adding some links to your site in your mkting text though. Also, you can add your cell phone # and your personal web address. Otherwise, looks good!
Brad - We have added a ton of cool widgets. Here is the full list if anyone is interested - http://www.zillow.com/webtools/widgets/
Steve- You can't add a AR badge to your Zillow profile. But you can add a Zillow badge to your AR blog. Here is a link to all of our badges - http://www.zillow.com/webtools/badges/