Linking to a Listing Detail Page

Let’s say you want to link a listing either in a post or in a page on your site. One example would be creating a post to highlight a listing and then linking to the full details page. Another would be say a page on a new construction development with link(s) to the appropriate active listings in said development.

The easy thing to do would be to find the listing detail page on the Windermere site and link to it:

http://windermere.com/index.cfm?FUSEACTION=
listing.listingDetail&LISTINGID=34130771

However, both the user and you benefit when you keep them "within" your site. You can do that through a handy trick we’ve enabled in the theme.

Just get the ListingID off Windermere.com for the listing you want to link to, and use it as follows…

http://michaeldfanning.com/?ListingID=34130771

Where "michaeldfanning.com" above would be replaced by your site’s domain and the long number at the end is the ID of the listing you are linking to (note: this ID is different than the MLS number, it is the unique ID in the URL). For those familiar with HTML, the link code looks like this:

<a href="http://michaeldfanning.com/?ListingID=34130771">
 A Link to My Listing
</a>

And the result allows the user to conveniently stay within the navigation of your site:

Figure 1. Example of a Listing Detail Page

You can use this shortcut from anywhere within your site or via external links (for example craigslist or the like).

Note: If you’re interested in tracking the results of external advertising, be sure to visit our ad tracking service, listingnumber.com.