The Community Summary page can be found by clicking Communities on your website. This page is essentially a landing page where you can feature your Communities Served pages, and includes links to all of your individual community pages. Learn how to add community pages
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You can edit the default text at the top of this page by going into your website editor, and expanding the page menu for the Communities page. Then click Edit. Here you can add additional text, images, video, and links.
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To feature specific communities here, check the Primary Community box when adding or editing your community.
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Checking the Primary Community box will also feature this community in certain Communities Served widgets.Learn more about widgets
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What is a Community Served?
The Communities Served view enables you to manage a list of the areas that you cover as an agent. The communities you add will be listed on the home page or buy page of your website, depending on the website theme you're using. The Communities Served list links website visitors to specific information on a community.
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What are the benefits of Communities Served?
Communities Served provide more relevant search results for your prospects. It allows them to better navigate your site to find properties in the neighborhoods and areas they want to specifically search.
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What can I name my Communities Served?
You can choose any name for your Communities Served, with the following recommendation and restriction:
Recommendation: For formatting reasons, we recommend using names with fewer than 20 characters.
Restriction: Your Communities Served pages will not work correctly if you use special characters in the name, especially / and \.
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How many zip codes can I add to each Community Served?
You can add up to 31 zip codes to each Community Served.
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How are Communities Served ordered?
Communities Served are always ordered alphabetically.
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How do Communities Served affect the Market Leader Search Widget?
The Communities Served that you set up will also be the list of areas that can be searched using the Market Leader Search Widget. The list of areas will display in alphabetical order.
Below you will see an example of a Search Widget on the left. On the right, we have clicked on the drop down menu for "Area." This shows that "Capitol Hill" is the default area in the search widget.
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What are the maximum and recommended number of Communities Served?
Market Leader recommends adding a minimum of 15-20 Communities Served and no more than a maximum of 25. There is no limit to how many Communities Served you may add to your site, but more than 25 can negatively affect the formatting of your site.
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Can I add custom content to a Community Served page?
Yes, you absolutely can add custom content to a Community Served page. In fact, Market Leader recommends that you add unique, informative, hyper-local information to each of your Communities Served page. This will increase the SEO value of your website and demonstrate your local expertise to potential clients. You can add custom content to a Community Served page either when you initially create it, or afterwards by editing it.
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What types of content can I use in a Community Served page?
You can add the following types of content to the customizable section of your Community Served page:
Images
Custom Characters
Emoticons
HTML content
When you are creating, editing or adding a Community Served, you can add advanced content types by using the buttons highlighted in the screenshot below.
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What type of specific searches will show under Communities Served?
Searches will appear under your Communities Served depending on what your MLS displays and what is currently available on the market.
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How do listings appear under a Community Served?
Your Communities Served will display listings from the zip/postal codes you selected. Listings will appear under your Communities Served depending on what your MLS displays and what is currently available on the market.
