Just for weekend fun – and because it is also useful – we released a search engine based on Google’s custom search engine technology, which allows visitors to search real estate related content that are provided only on real estate websites. In other words, it is a search engine which uses the subset of the whole web. The search engine index is built with pages from Zillow, Inman News, Trulia, ActiveRain and RealBird (and all other domain names linked from those sites).
For example, if you use RealBird to market your properties online and your RealBird account is set up with your own website and blog links, the search engine index will contain your listing information on RealBird and all the content from your website and blog.
The search engine can be found at http://search.realbird.com
Here are a few sample searches:
Searching for a real estate professional: Janie Coffey
Looking for property for sale information: Hopkinton homes for sale
Searching for real estate terms: “Real estate capital gain when selling your home”
Searching for industry news: Century 21 advertising
You can also grab and deploy it as a widget on your own website and blog. See it in action on the right side of this blog. We also embedded it below. Use the embed code through the “Grab widget” button or to customize the width and height on the widget homepage.
if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget(‘b406ed64-0a10-45d9-a8f3-fa7f88fd1ab7’);
Just Dugg it for you Z. If you want to give me a link that would be cool:)
this is great! I can’t wait to install the widget on my blog. Realbird is always coming out with the most useful applications for real estate professionals with cutting edge aesthetics. This just popped up from my Google Alerts, thank you for the mention!
Bill – Thanks. I updated one of the example searches to Hopkinton homes for sale – You rule that SERP !
Janie – That was fast. I.e. Google alerting you within an hour or so. Let me know pls when you deployed the widget.
Thanks Z…I did not see my website though which was very surprising.
Bill – I have to check the config. The custom search should pick up content from the linked domain names as well.
Searching for site:www.sellmyhomeinmetrowestma.com.com does not return any pages, and I know you have it linked from your ActiveRain profile, so it should be. Google’s custom search index is not the same as their regular website index, but nevertheless, this configuration should work. I’ll look into it and post an update