Creating Neighborhood Town Pages

Creating Town Pages

1. Select the CMS tab on the back end of your website
2. Click the “Town Pages”sub-item
   1. Select “New Town Page” in the upper right of the Town Pages table
   2. Choose which CMS page you will be using as your new Town Page. If you need to create a new page, please see the Creating a Page section of this guide.  Note: Entering original content (not copied from anywhere else) to a Town Page will increase your search engine rankings. Town Pages are designed for maximum search engine optimization; add as much unique original content as you can to take advantage of this!
   3. Choose whether this page will show search results from your rentals database (if you have one) or your MLS. If you have multiple MLS services, choose which one you want this Town Page to search. Listing information from your chosen data source is refreshed daily
   4. Enter the search parameters you wish to define the listings shown on this page. You can choose standard search criteria such as location or locations and price range, as well as keywords to search for, individual MLS listing IDs, even a mapped search which lets you draw the boundaries of your search on an interactive map for sales searches
   5. After you have entered your desired criteria, click “Create” to save your changes
   6. All town pages are automatically listed in the order that you created them in the Town Pages table
3. To edit Town Page search criteria, click “Edit” in the editing menu next to the page title in the Town Pages table. Save your settings after making changes by clicking “Update”

**Note: We recommend that you do not delete town pages. Once you delete a page, you are not able to recover it from the system.

Displaying Town Pages on your Website

There are 3 ways to add links to a town page to your website; adding a menu item to the Town Pages menu, adding a menu item to any standard navigation menu, or adding an internal link to the page in any content block. To add a link to a Town Page to any standard navigation menu, please read the instructions on using Menus elsewhere in this guide.  To add an internal link to a Town Page, please read the instructions on adding hyperlinks to page body content elsewhere in this guide. To add a Town Page menu item to the dedicated Town Pages menu, follow these steps:

Adding a Town Page to your Town Pages Menu

1. Select the CMS tab on the back end of your website and click the “Menus” sub-item
2. Scroll to the Town Pages menu
3. Click “Menu Items” in the editing menu to the right of the menu name
4. Click “Create New”
5. Add Menu Text (the title of the menu item as it will be displayed on your website)
6. Select the page you want to link to
7. Click “Create” and your menu item will be added to the Town Pages Menu on all pages of your website

**Note: We recommend that users do not delete town pages. Once you delete a page you are unable to recover it from the system.