Posting Homes For Sale on Geebo

Well I checked out geebo.com and put in a listing there. Here's my experience with that. I wanted to look at the listing again before I wrote the post, but had a rough time finding it. On Geebo you log in, or otherwise validate, with a password (no id), but I didn't see anywhere I could log in to check my current listings, and I didn't see where any link was sent to me via email. So I had to scroll through everything posted for Detroit for three days, which boiled down to 20 or 30 screens.

Geebo doesn't let you put html in the description, but if you put in a web page address, Geebo will recognize it as a link and hyperlink it for display. However, even though they preserve the actual link, the link that is displayed is only the base url of the website. So, for example, to put the page address for listing number 149 in a Geebo ad, I type the following url: http://www.remericasomersetrealty.com/listings/149.html. When Geebo displays the ad, the link looks as follows: http://www.remericasomersetrealty.com
Notice that what you see is the front page address, but the actual link if you click on it is the link shown above; 149.html. I thought that was a little odd.

The other thing about Geebo was, when you surf through the listings, the info that is displayed in the lists doesn't include the title, so there's no good abbreiviated description of the listings. myhouseinfo.com has a similar weakness. Additionally, as with so many of these sites, Geebo is limited to major cities, so it doesn't cater well to rural areas. I did like the simplicity of the input screen. Geebo is not exclusive to Real Estate.

Posting Real Estate Listings on Oodle

I know I haven't written in a while and the summer (and half the fall for that matter) got away from me. I notice though that my .net guru buddy hasn't written all summer either though, so I feel better.

I said that I would check out some more Listing Posting sites a while back, so I checked out oodle this morning. Here's what I found. It looks like they have an affiliation with Lycos so you can post to both places, but as far as I could tell, it looks like you have to enter the posting in both places also. The software is similar but not identical. The main problem I saw with oodle was that, once I registered it assumed that I was the contact for the listing, and wanted to use my email as the addrss to reply to. Something craigslist allowed for along time ago was no reply address, and you specify the contact info in the classified. The nearest city I could post too was Detroit, which is at least 75 miles from my folks real estate area in Southern Michigan. Backpage still has this downfall also, but Craigslist has added Ann Arbor, and more recently Jackson, which is very close. Also oodle didn't allow me to specify a half bath, I didn't like having to select "real Estate" twice in the screen clicking process. It did let me specify a website address for the listing, but then it didn't hyperlink it for me. They could hyperlink it with a nofollow. I might post more to oodle in the future but it wouldn't be my first choice.