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LPS Real Estate Group is proud to announce the release of rDesk Website 19.2. Releases will occur during the evening on the night before the date shown.
Stage release date: March 31, 2011
Production release date: April 13, 2011
Contents SEO ................................................................................................................................................................ 2
Add Local Flavor to Your City Landing Pages ............................................................................................ 2
Display All Offices on the City Landing Pages Regardless of Website Status............................................ 4
Modify Your Robots.txt File ...................................................................................................................... 4
8) After you review your changes, close the preview window and click Save
Permission
There is a new user permission called “Can Administer City Landing Page”. Anyone with this access
can edit any city landing page in your system.
Display All Offices on the City Landing Pages Regardless of Website Status Previously, the city landing pages only displayed the nearby offices for those offices that have websites.
That requirement has been removed so that offices will display even if they don’t have a website.
Modify Your Robots.txt File You can now modify your own robots.txt file. This is to help you with SEO. If you’re not sure what the
robots.txt file is or what you should modify it to, we highly recommend that you give The Search Agency
(TSA) a call. TSA is a world-class SEO consultant company and we’d be happy to make the introduction.
Just let us know!
1) The company website will inherit the system default robots unless they choose to customize the
robots for their website.
2) All office websites will inherit the company robots unless they choose to customize the robots
for their website.
3) All agent websites will inherit the office robots unless they choose to customize the robots for
their website.
For Company Admins…
First, login to Admin. Then,
1) Expand Property Search Variables
2) Select System Variables
3) Note the “Robots.txt Settings” section. Easily toggle between a customized or default versions
Agents and Offices can also adjust these settings for their websites.
First, login to Admin. Then,
1) Expand My Tools
2) Select My Website
3) Select Edit in the Website Information section
4) Note the “Robots.txt Settings” section below the Website Keywords.
Note: We do not allow search engines to crawl your stage sites. Any changes made will not take effect
until this goes into production.
Usability
Using the List View or Gallery View as the Default View is Faster We tweaked things on the back end so that if you use the List View or Gallery View as the default, the
page will load faster. Previously we loaded the map first and then switched over to the other view.
Easy Access to the List of URLs Relevant to Your Website This enhancement is great for everyone from content writers, admins and agents! A list of the available
internal URLs are only a click away. The generated list is dependent upon the login. For example, Admins
will see company-generated content urls, jump searches and content files. Agent will see urls to content
and jump searches that they have created.
You can access this list via the new sub navigation link in the left nav. The Company Admin and Agent
Sort Sub Navigation in Admin Working in Admin can be tough enough without wasting time searching through navigation. All sub
navigation items are now alphabetized. This will greatly assist in training. We’re also looking towards
making Admin much more user friendly. Stay tuned!
Added Text Indicating Quarterly Updates on the City Landing Pages On the Median Sale Price section, we’re displaying the % of change over the previous quarter. This is
Create Content Templates to Share Within Your Company* Create page templates that you can pull from when you or your agents create new content. You might
have a page template that you want to build all of your content in. This new feature will allow you to
spend less time formatting, and more time getting your messaging out there.
This feature also benefits your agents. You can create a few different content templates that they can
choose from with a simple click and then make a few modifications to personalize it.
First, login to Admin. Then,
1) Expand Content
2) Select Content Templates
3) Choose a template to modify or select Add New Content Template
4) Enter the name and description
5) Select which websites will have access to this template
6) Select which website packages will have access to this template
7) You can further determine that certain templates are only available for certain website designs.
This allows you to maintain a consistent look and feel to agent websites!
Any of the text or design previous on the page will be overwritten with the selected content template.
You still have the ability to customize this page with the RAD Editor. We suggest using widgets if there
are certain pieces that you do not want your users to modify.
Configure Tabs on the Property Details Page We’re working on an enhancement that will allow you to create and hide the tabs on the property
details page. Agents (via a web package) will also have this configurability. We’re about half way through
this enhancement. The full enhancement will be delivered in the future.
Form Processor Enhancements Including a Creation Wizard This enhancement furthers your ability to create custom forms, choose where they display, imbed them
within the page as an open form or on an overlay. Furthermore, you can customize the emails that are
sent to the user, your company and your agents.
Forms Processor Overview
The Forms Processor provides a way for you to create a custom web form that will send an email with
the posted data and optionally send the lead to rDesk CRM. In addition to the data, these items can also