I’m excited to let everyone know that we have two new free real estate widgets for your blog or web site!
This one has been in the works for a while now. You’ve probably heard of Trulia Snapshot, the project where you can see local homes for sale using an ultra-cool mapping feature. You can even set the site to “auto-play” and the results will scroll for you.
We heard from tons of people who want to have Trulia Snapshot directly on their web site or blog. Well now you can. The TruliaShapshot widget allows you to build your own customized version of Trulia Snapshot and easily include it on your own site for your visitors.
Check out the example for Chicago above. We even included the auto-play feature so people can sit back and watch the results scroll on your blog.
One of the most popular sections of Trulia is the amount of local real estate statistics, trend and school information. Our users can easily find out what’s going on in their cities or neighborhoods and compare it to other areas. We even have charts that you can embed on your own sites and a great TruliaStats widget that shows an interactive chart of local home prices over the past year.
Our users have been asking us for a small and simple statistics widget, one that just shows the median price change for a particular city. Our new TruliaMinistats widget is just that - a small and simple widget that shows the median price change, in both absolute dollars and in percentage, for any city in the US. It’s a great local real estate tool that anyone can easily drop into their blog or website.
We’re super excited to add these widgets to the list of Trulia’s real estate tools for your website. These tools are free, easily embeddable on any web page and add great real estate content for website owners.
We can’t wait to see our users embedding these free widgets on their pages! If you’ve done so, please let us know the page on your site in the comments below.
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October 28th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
This looks to be very cool. I can’t wait to impliment it.
-RealtyMan
October 29th, 2008 at 2:44 am
Oh, Dang! I thought you said ‘Midgets’
October 29th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
The tools are awesome, I’d love to implement them in all of my pages on my site, my blogs, ect.
The one thing I would be concerned with would be losing consumers on my site. As in, they like the widget, click on it and go to Trulia and land with someone else.
Is there some branded opportunities in the works or an answer for this?
October 29th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Hi Joshua - we have a co-branded feature that can be set up for your site. Its called the Trulia Publisher Platform - http://www.trulia.com/publishers/platform. Would that work for you?
October 30th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Well now, that’s almost a full fledged IDX replacement with monetizing ability built in.
My dilemma is this:
User visits me at my site, clicks on trulia stuff, goes to trulia site, finds another agent. Not a real fun scenario.
Listing content is different than “voices” or “blogs” - because a listing doesn’t immediately communicate anything. Whereas someone finds me and clicks on my voice widget, they get my “brand” of voices. It almost re-enforces the brand.
November 4th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Hi Joshua,
Isn’t the Trulia Publisher Platform a branded solution for listings? Or are you thinking specifically of some other branded opportunity?
Thanks,
January 12th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
What is the final verdict of Johsua’s question? If someone does click on the Widget does it get directed back to Trulia?
January 13th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Hi Brad,
For the Snapshot widget, clicks in the widget remain on the widget page and get directed to Trulia, it depends how the user interacts with the widget. You can try it for yourself above. For the MiniStats widget, clicks on the widget get directed to Trulia.
Separately, we do have a co-branded Trulia search product that can be used with widgets called the Trulia Publisher Platform. More information can be found here - http://www.trulia.com/publishers/platform/
Thanks Brad,
January 15th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Widgets are also useful. You can try them for a whiel and see if it adds to your visitors.
February 4th, 2009 at 11:50 am
The TruliaSnapshot widget looks very interesting. We are going to try it out on CompeteRealty - http://www.CompeteRealty.com
February 4th, 2009 at 11:52 am
The TruliaSnapshot widget looks very interesting. We are going to try it out on CompeteRealty
April 10th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Really cool widgets…I might be implementing them soon.