Google allows users to create and embed maps into your own website. Using Google Maps is a great way to illustrate the many amenities in a neighborhood.
You can add customized icons with photos and link them to websites. For instance when marketing a home all the external features can be added to a map, then the map code can be embedded on the brochure page you create on your site.
Tutorials in Screencast
To illustrate this process I’ve made 3 screencasts with step by step instructions on how to create, customize and embed Google maps onto your website.
How to create a personalized Google Map –Where to Begin?
Adding customized icons to your Google Map – Step by step, how to find icons and add them to your Map
Embedding your Google Map into your Blogsite –
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Hi Kris!
I created this map – thanks to your help and I didn’t know if I should make it private or public.
Question, if I make it public, will others be able to change it or add to it. As I get additional data, such as pictures of the club houses, etc., I will go back and add more. I just wanted you to see that people are benefiting from your generous guidance,
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=100326550440732034854.00048f7631900324ac133&z=11
I posted this on my blog. http://www.atlantarealestaterealeasy.blogspot.com.
BTW, I am still trying to improve my blog. I love your site, kristalsellsdenver.com! I know you’ve been working on it for a long time. Can’t figure out if it’s a site or a blog or a blending of both.
Can you shed some light on that?
Thanks again.