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.
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