Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only 2015 Regional Training Embedding Maps into your listings on your United Country office website

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Step 1: Create a Google Account Go to and click on “Sign In” in the upper right hand corner. – Or Click on “Create an Account” and complete the form if you do not have a Google account yet

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Google Sign In Page Sign In Or Create an Account

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Locate the Property You Want to Map Click on the “9 dots” / in the upper right hand corner. Click on the “Google Maps” icon. Next to the search box, there are 3 horizontal bars, click those and a menu will drop down with “My Maps” as an option. Select “My Maps”. Create a new map by clicking on the “Create Map” option. Enter the address, or the latitude and longitude, of the property and click “Search” to automatically locate the property.

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Locate the Property You Want to Map #1 #2

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Locate the Property You Want to Map #3 #4

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only # 5 Locate the Property You Want to Map

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Locate the Property You Want to Map # 6 Type in address

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Create a Map of the Property. Click on “+” in the lower right hand corner of the screen to zoom in on the property. You will have to click several times to get large enough to map the property. If the property lines appear as you enlarge the map, you can use them to draw your map. If the property lines do not appear, click on the arrow next to “Base map” and choose the “Satellite” view to see the property better and aid in drawing the map. From the row of icons above the map, click on the icon titled “Draw a line” and then choose “Add line or shape.”

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Create a Map of the Property. * # 1. Zoom In

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Create a Map of the Property * #2. Choose “Base map” * #3. Choose the Satellite View”

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Create a Map of the Property * # 4. Choose the draw lines icon

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Place your cursor over one of the property corners and “click and drag” a line to the next corner. Release the cursor and then click and drag to the next corner. Once the perimeter is completed a box will appear asking you to “Name the Layer”. This is a great opportunity to use a Google search term to further your SEO. For example: “Country Home For Sale Sparta, NC” You can also add any comments you would like. For example: Again SEO keyword rich descriptions and agent contact info Create a Map of the Property

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Create a Map of the Property

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only If you would like to change the color of your map, hold your cursor over the line with map layer you just created and click on the “paint bucket” icon. You can then choose a color for your map and lighten it or darken it. Coloring the map can be of value if there are multiple properties being sold individually or as a whole. You can also change the width of the perimeter lines. Create a Map of the Property

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Create a Map of the Property

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Add Markers (Pins) to Your Map. (Optional) Click on the icon titled “Add marker” and then click on the location on the map where you would like to add the marker, click the spot and a red marker will appear. You can then give the marker (pin) a title. Use SEO Keywords. – For example: Video of Alleghany County, NC Country Home for Sale. You can add also add a description. Use SEO Keywords. – For example: Home for Sale Sparta, NC, Call Bill (listing agent) at (agent cell phone #) Click on “Save” when you are finished.

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Add Markers (Pins) to Your Map. (Optional) * #1. Choose the “Add marker” Icon * #2. Add a Photo to the Marker (Pin)

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Of course Goggle wants you to use their tools and programs, and so with pictures they really want you to use their free “Google Drive” file storage to store your photos. There are other methods to get photos on maps, but the following is recommended and leverages “Google Drive”. The added benefit is possible better SEO since it Googles tool and one system. Go to Goggle Drive in 9 dot box, Select “Drive” Choose “My Drive” (Top Left Bar) Choose “Upload File” Search your hard drive for pictures you want to add to the map Select pictures, choose by double clicking the photo(s) or click “Open” (in lower right hand corner) Now your pictures are loaded in your Google Drive, so you can get them for your maps Return to Goggle Maps, go to “My Maps” Find an existing map and marker (pin) you want to add photos to Click on the marker (pin), select the Camera Icon in the lower right hand corner of description box. Select “Image URL” Go back to Goggle Drive, select picture(s) you want, right click the photo, click “Share”, then click “Get Sharable Link” Go back to your Map and paste the copied URL in the “Image URL” search box in Goggle Maps Adding Photos to Your Markers (Optional)

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Add Photos to Your Marker (Optional) * Add a Photo to the Marker (Pin)

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only You can add a YouTube video to the marker (pin). Click on the red marker, choose the “edit” icon and then click on the Camera Icon titled. Then choose the option “YouTube URL” and paste the video URL from your YouTube channel into the space provided. Choose “Select” and the YouTube video is embedded and will appear in the marker. Add a Video to Your Marker (Pin) (Optional)

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Add a YouTube Video to Your Marker (Optional) * Add a Video to the Marker (Pin)

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Add a Video to Your Marker (Pin) (Optional)

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Making the Map “Public” On the left side of the page click on “Share.” You will be given an opportunity to name the map and add a description. – Once again use good Google search keywords for the title and description. – The description box is a good place to give a disclaimer as to the approximate size of the map. Finally, add name and cell #. When finished click on “Save” and a screen will appear showing that the map is private. Click on “Change…” and then mark the page as “Public on the web.” Click on “Save”, and then “Done.”

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Making the Map “Public” * 1. Choose “Share” * 2. When finished hit “Save”

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Making the Map “Public” * 3. Select “Change…”

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Making the Map “Public” * 4. Select “Public on the Web” * 5. Remember to Save

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Embed the Map in Your Listing To find the embed code, click on the three dots next to “Share” and choose “Embed on my site” and the embed code will appear. Copy and Paste the embed code to the end of your listing ad copy in RealTime. After pasting the embed code into RealTime, reduce the width to 480 and the height to 300. Click on “Submit the Listing” and the map will appear on the listing page. If you already have the listing page open during this process, you might have to hit the refresh button for the map to appear on the screen.

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Embed the Map in Your Listing

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Embed the Map in Your Listing Real-Time Screen of your listing * Manually change the width and height

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only Example of an Embeded Map a Listing

Highly Confidential – for UCRE Affiliate Use Only 2015 Regional Training Class Embedding maps into your listings on your United Country office website.