RealBird Blog

Photo orientation automatically fixed for your listings

A rarely occurring software bug in the photo upload utility is now fixed. In specific cases, when property photos were taken with wrong orientation with certain cameras and downloaded to the computer with a certain software, the photos were shown sideway or upside down after being uploaded to RealBird.

This software bug affected only a very small portion of the millions of property pictures uploaded to RealBird, but it was an issue nevertheless. 

From now on, this problem is fixed and won't happen to any pictures even in the few special cases mentioned above.

Those of you who have been affected before: thank you for your patience.

For all practical purposes, go ahead and upload your property pictures for your listings just like before. Nothing has changed on the user interface and there are no additional steps introduced. All the correction to pictures happen automatically in the background.

-- The RealBird Team
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Win more listings with RealBird

RealBird Listing Publisher is a  powerful set of tools for marketing your listings online, but what if you currently have no listings? Did you know that you can also use RealBird for getting more sellers to list with you, for winning more listings?

Many RealBird PRO power users have been using the service in creative ways to gain more business, including creating single property websites and print flyers for Solds on RealBird and marketing them through our listing widgets, social media tools and through neighborhood marketing.

Just recently, we created a dedicated section in the RealBird member area called: "Win More Listings". We will be adding a growing list of private labeled documents and tools that can help you with getting more seller leads and eventually winning more listings.

For starting, there are now 4 marketing docs available in Pdf format, all private labeled with your photo and contact information. You can print them out and use them at listing presentations to easily communicate your marketing edge by being a RealBird PRO user and also to showcase the list of syndication sites that you will be sending the seller's listing to, for maximum exposure. Nothing is more convincing than a prepared, easy-to-understand, nicely presented overview of your online marketing capabilities and services.

Download them and give it a try and let us know what you think.

 

Google's search update affects ranking based on mobile-friendliness. Your RealBird listings pass Google's test !

You may have heard of Google's upcoming update to its search algorithm which will affect ranking of sites based on their mobile-friendliness.

The good news is that your RealBird single property websites has been mobile-friendly for a long time and we do not expect any negative effects.

The screenshot below shows that the RealBird mobile single property website passes Google's own mobile-friendliness test. You can try it for your own RealBird listing as well.

 

New syndication partner for rental listings: Padmapper.com

Your rental listings on RealBird just got more exposure: Padmapper.com has been added to your RealBird service as a new syndication partner. Just like with other syndication destinations, updates to your RealBird rental listings will automatically change the listing on Padmapper as well and if you delete a listing from RealBird, it will be promptly removed from the partner site.

The Padmapper.com syndication is available for RealBird PRO members in the USA. 

More RealBird features are on their way so stay tuned ! (rss)

Updated RealBird Property Card widget

The RealBird MiniSite and TinySite widgets have been used for years on thousands of real estate websites and blogs. We just released an update for these widgets, which we now call the RealBird Property Cards. This update is backward compatible: all the previously embedded widgets on your websites work seamlessly; no change is necessary. 

You can access the widget generator from within the RealBird member area, on the Listing Management page, just like before. Clicking the "Minisite widget" or "Tinysite widget" link, will bring up the new widget code generator. 

The listing on the example above is the courtesy of Experience Realty, div of Waterfront Professionals, Inc.

Using the widget generator utility, you can set the width and height of the iframe placeholder and also turn on and off the background theme, depending on your overall design goal when embedding these live widgets on your website. 

We hope you like the new, modern look of the updated RealBird Property Card widgets.

-- The RealBird Team