Suburb insight – we need your help!
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One of the principles of zoodle is that whilst there is masses of valuable property information on the web, finding it can be a challenge and that is where zoodle can be a godsend!
We have built zoodle on a vast amount of information – possibly as much as 60 million pages. But we want to make zoodle the best source of property information. To do that we want to keep updating and adding new information, and this is where you can help us.
We created suburb profile page for each suburb in the country – there are around 1,600 of them although according to the official mapping database there are over 3,100 dwelling centers known as suburbs! To really make these pages rich and valuable for visitors we have a detailed summary of the suburb, what transport links are like, shopping, eating out and other snippets of local knowledge.
To see what I mean check out the profile for the biggest suburb in the country – Papatoetoe. This profile was written by Angela Signal who works for Barfoot & Thompson. Angela like many other real estate agents around the country have contributed to around 200 suburb profiles so far – we still have another 1,400 to go.
If you would like to help us write a suburb profile we would be delighted to have your support. Just find the suburb where you live or the one you would like to profile and if there is no profile there click the link to go to a page to complete a profile. In return for this contribution we will credit you with being the author and attribute the content with a link to your website.
So here for example is Paeroa – who wants to be world famous in NZ by writing a profile for the famous home of L&P!
Whilst we are sure that you will provide a rich and balance summary – we do wish to give your submission the once-over by our editors, for this reason your contribution will not be published live but may take a short while to appear – so go on have a go, you no doubt live in a suburb you know heaps about and would be keen to share with others.
I recently submitted a suburb outline for Waihi and it is not displayed yet but I understand this has to be approved before it is put on your website. I have noticed that there is also no map of Waihi – how can I go about getting one of these to you?
Linda
Thanks for the prompt – we have been inundated with profiles and we are really keen to pass a “editors” eye across them for the benefit of the users of the site. This means we are a bit behind.
Nothing like the squeaky wheel to instigate action – your profile is now up on the site – the map is also accurately positioned.
Congratulations on a website designed to be helpful
I am looking at providing information for related areas
What are the terms and conditions of this please
Eg What do you base your descisions on as to who you use and how long does there
name/link remain for?etc etc etc
Della
We have a simple principle – rich content is what we want – we are very happy to reciprocate by referencing the author of any suburb profiles.
We review each one, more for spelling and grammar to be honest, although we do find some that need a bit of pruning and tempering with reality!
We will feature the profile of that suburb until someone tells us they can do it better!!
It is fairly democratic and ideally user generated so I would encourage you to give it a go!