We have just added the ability for you to separate out a Hotpads feed for your own account.  YGL has a feed to Hotpads that includes all of our listings, but you might get more exposure by separating out your own feed.  Some of you have asked for  this, so there you go.

Admins and managers will be able to turn on your account Hotpads feed in your Account Profile from the Dashboard.  You’ll find an extra section called Account Data Feeds in the Account Profile page.    See screenshot below for more information.

The reason for this is because one of the questions we get fairly often is how does Hotpads handle the duplications?  For example, I have listings from a landlord that YGL’s other clients also have, from the feed YGL sends to Hotpads, how does Hotpads determine which ones to show?

The honest answer is that we do not know.  Hotpads does not tell us how they handle duplications on their end (which they do).  We are guessing that they probably have some internal algorithm to rank listings based on certain criteria, such as quality of data, available date, last update date, etc.  These are, of course, just our guesses.