3.10 eAgentC Blog and RSS Feeds

eAgentC Blog

Add/Edit RSS Consumer Pages

3.10a eAgentC Blogs Powered by Top Producer

 

This page is divided into two tabbed sections: eAgentC Blog and RSS Feeds. In addition to the standard and neighborhood pages on your website, you may create your own custom web pages to include a blog and RSS feeds as features on your website. Many news-related web sites, blogs, and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS feed on web pages. 

eAgentC Blog

A blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles or other websites. 

  1. Click the eAgentC Blog tab.

  1. Click the Sign-Up/Login to your eAgentC Blog powered by Top Producer link to ) to sign-up or log in to your eAgentC blog powered by Top Producer (TP).   You can also go directly to the TP KW Blogs page: http://www.topproducer.com/kw/blogs/.

NOTE: First time users will need to complete the sign up form.

 

A new browser window will open to the Top Producer Blogs log in page.

Click here for more information on signing up, logging in, and/or using Top Producer Blogs.

After publishing your blog, continue to the RSS Feeds tab where you can publish your blog to your website.  You will need the URL of your eAgentC blog to insert into the RSS Feed URL field on the Add/Edit RSS Feeds tab.

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Add/Edit RSS Feeds

RSS (Rich Site Summary) pages are formatted for delivering regularly changing web content. When you see an RSS icon ( ) on a web page, this indicates the page offers RSS feeds and you can add their regularly updated content to your website. Please ensure the configured RSS feeds support versions 0.91, 0.92 or 2.0.

  1. Click the Add/Edit Consumer Pages tab.

  1. Click in the appropriate radio button to select the layout of the new page.
  1. Complete the fields to add or edit pages.

Field

Description

Add or Edit  Page

Select if you want to add or edit a page. 

Page Name*

Enter a name for this page.  

Page Title

Enter a chosen title for this page.

Meta Tag Description

Enter a brief (1-2 sentences) description of your page to tell consumers and search engines what your page contains. NOTE: This will not register your page with any search engine; that must be done separately from this Website Administration Tool.

Meta Tag Keywords

Enter all keywords that identify your page's purpose and content to a search engine. It is unlawful to include the names of competitive websites/companies in your Meta tag keywords and descriptions. DO NOT do so under any circumstances. NOTE: This will not register your page with any search engine; that must be done separately from this Website Administration Tool.

Publish Page

Select the appropriate radio button if you want to publish this page on your eAgentC website.
Require registration before viewing Select the appropriate radio button if you want to require registration before viewing the applicable page.
RSS Feed URL Enter the URL (website address) of the RSS Feed or blog.   Be sure to enter the protocol (http://) or your link will not work. This is where you should add the URL for your eAgentC blog. All blog URLs must have "RSS' in the web address or the RSS feed will not work. See also the RSS link example addresses below.
Tips

Tips and Tricks: To see examples of RSS URLs, please see the following links:

http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/RealEstate.xml

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss

http://ryankucera.featuredblog.com/?feed=rss2

It is important that you make sure the RSS Feed URL contains 'RSS' in the address or the RSS feeds will not work on your website.

NOTE:* marks required fields and must be completed or you will not be able to save this form.
  1. Click the Save button to save your newly added page.  Make sure the Save Successful message displays on the screen.  To delete a previously added page, select the page from the Add or Edit Page drop-down list and click the Delete button. 

Repeat steps 1-3 to add more pages to your website.

  1. Click Next 4.1 to go to the next page of the Agent Website Administration Tool

Or

Click one of the left navigation links to go directly to the next section of your choice.

 

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