Apartment Sites Blog

Invite a Manager to Your Google Business Profile

Google the property name. At the top of the search results, you should see “Your business on Google” like this:
Click the 3 dots on the right and click “Business Profile settings” Click “People and access” to view the current users and their access. Remove anyone that no longer needs access. Add tourvista.ppc@gmail.com with “Manager” access. Reply to … more

Microsoft 365 Helpful Links

A few helpful links to get you up & running on Email by Microsoft 365:

Webmail Login

Login to your email on the web by visiting email.yoursite.com (e.g. if your site is coolapartments.com, your webmail login is email.coolapartments.com)

Once logged in, click “Outlook” on the left menu, like this:

Here’s a step-by-step login … more

GoDaddy Domain Transfer

It’s easy to transfer a domain from one GoDaddy account to another GoDaddy account. This is most common when an apartment changes management/ownership and the domain is still in use for the property website.

Here’s how to transfer a domain between two GoDaddy accounts: Login to your GoDaddy account and click to view your domains Click on the domain and … more

Google Analytics Weekly Report

Each Monday we email clients a report from Google Analytics with high level data about their website traffic. This report includes goals or KPIs (key performance indicators) to show how many website visitors are completing lead forms or other important actions, like clicking to apply or completing an online application.

This video explains the report and provides insight on … more

Viewing Google Ads Invoices

Running Google Ads? Your accounting team will probably want to view invoices and billing details.

TourVista offers an extremely solid Google Ads management for apartments. We setup and manage the account for your property, and your credit card is charged directly by Google for the ad clicks.

In case you need to have access to the Google Ads invoices … more

How to Setup a Google Account

TourVista uses many Google products in conjunction with our websites and online marketing services, mostly because these improve your Google rankings, but also because Google’s software is really good and provides tremendous value.

Google Analytics, Google My Business and Google Search Console are examples of the Google products we setup with your website.

To access these products, you’ll need … more

Add the Facebook Pixel to Your Apartment Website

Running ads on Facebook? Be sure to add the “pixel” to your website!

Facebook advertising can work very well for apartment communities (as long as the marketing team knows what they’re doing).

When running ads on Facebook, it’s absolutely critical to include the Facebook pixel on your website. This allows Facebook to communicate with your website and is the secret … more

Add Instagram Photos to Your Apartment Website

If you’re active on Instagram (and you totally should be! your target audience is there) then we highly recommend adding the Instagram photo stream to your apartment website. It’s easy, here’s how:

Setup Instructions If you haven’t already, setup an Instagram account. Go to this site and click the big button. (more

Send Large Files to TourVista

As we’re building your website we count on your team to provide us with the content, including photos & videos.

While email is great for small files, sharing large files (larger than 20 MB) is better using our online Google Drive, like so:

Go to our Google Drive – … more

Add a video to your website

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