Bulk Upload Your Listings to Zillow
By: Jorrit Van der Meulen, VP, Partner Relations | September 11, 2007
Soon, it will be easier than ever for real estate agents and brokers to put their listings on Zillow. To do that, we’re working on supporting bulk uploads of listings through our new Zillow Listings Feed. Back in June, Jeff Somers wrote about our upcoming support for feeds. Since then, our developers have made massive strides in terms of developing our platform and we are now in the early internal testing phases (no listings via feeds are live on the site yet).
To learn more and to sign-up to be among the first to participate, please visit Zillowfeeds.com and fill out the form. If you already have a XML feed set-up, please include the URL so that our developers can begin looking at it as soon as possible. For those of you wishing to build an XML feed especially for Zillow, we’ve published the Zillow Interchange Format (ZIF), which is the ideal XML feed format.
As we have been out talking to Brokers about displaying their listings online, we have heard a lot of great questions. We took the most frequently asked questions and compiled them into a convenient document called Zillow Listings Feed Guide, An Overview. Questions like “Why Should I Feed To Zillow” and “How Do You Handle Leads” are answered.
If you would like to have a feed built for you, there are a number of technology vendors who specialize in this technology listed here.
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John Wen on September 13, 2007 10:41 am
To help agents to use zillowfeeds, a vedio tutorial may be the best tool for majority of the agents who are not internet savey.
Antonio on September 13, 2007 1:28 pm
Would be even better if they could do themself trough IDX, with just the Realtor consent.
DavidG on September 13, 2007 6:28 pm
John -
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately technical specs don’t really lend themselves to video - click on the links above to see what I mean.
Antonio -
It may well be possible to transform an IDX feed of your listings into the Zillow feed fromat. At least one broker has mentioned they’d take that approach. Why dont you have a developer who’s worked with your IDX look at the spec.?
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Graham on August 12, 2008 8:48 pm
For those who want to syndicate are large number of listings without have to retype them all by hand, we have a program that reads the lisings directly from your database and automatically submits them on a regular basis.
See: http://www.artis-usa.com/Products/RES/RESCorp.asp