We’re constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing and supporting features which drive the best monetization results for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most effective in the long term. For this reason, we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August.

Even though it’s sad news for many people, I really do understand the “focus” problem they had. We have to deal with this reality everyday and it causes many headaches…

Bye bye referrals! Now let’s hope the adsense team will be able to use all this extra focus to offer us an even better service!

Why did this happen?

Since the beginning of last week, we’ve been working on the implementation of a new dedicated stats server. We’ve had to change a lot of the pages and scripts of the website to do so, which caused the problem you might be experiencing.

We are working hard today to try to get the situation back to the normal as fast as possible. I’m pretty sure we’ll be able to get to a result you’ll judge satisfying, and that you’ll understand that we are doing those moves in order to be able to provide you with the best tools around.

Thanks a lot for your understanding,

Frédérick Dubois, Senior Programmer
ByTheOwner.com

The View on the Map button is now located more to right, just above the map when it opens. The Enlarge Pictures button is now in the left corner, directly above the small pictures.

Frédérick Dubois, Senior Programmer

Management is on the lookout for a Real Estate Sales Coach. We already have one in Quebec and it really rocks our service. Wanna know if you have what it takes, follow this link to view the job’s description »

This new promo launching today places the properties using the open house feature up-front on the website.

The Open House section will receive additionnal traffic due to bold visuals added to the website’s background and to the listings for sale.

List your property in the open house section today to get the maximum visibility for the next month!

Also, have a look at the new “add to my itinerary” feature available at the right of the properties infos when you click on the house icons. Pretty cool!

Frédérick Dubois
Lead Programmer, ByTheOwner.com

The “Order By” default value, which was set to “new listings first” since a couple of months have been rolled back to “less expensive first”.

Note that you can change this setting via a drop-down menu located on top of your search results.

Frédérick Dubois
Lead Programmer
ByTheOwner.com

The featured homes, which are displayed on top of the search results, now get more emphasis when they match the “property type” search criteria, thus according more quality visibility to the clients using this service.

Frédérick Dubois
Lead Programmer
ByTheOwner.com

What’s new?

1. Visual aspect of the page. (Damn it used to be ugly!)
2. Possibility to show/hide the neighborhood pins
3. Possibility to “jump to a city”
4. Possibility to display all future open houses OR all open houses on a specific date

There is more to come concerning the open houses in the next days, I’ll keep you updated
Hope you like it!

Frédérick Dubois
BTO Programmer

A meeting of the masterminds behind your favorite real estate website has given rise to a revolutionary idea!

This new feature is in the login page “Your Account”. A small checkbox labeled “Remember me on this computer” has appeared just below the password field. When you click this box and you log on, a Hi-Tech-Technology ensures that you to stay connected to the website for the next 30 days without having to re-enter your username and password.

However, if you click the “disconnect”, you will then “disconnect”…