Tagged : Trulia

Everyday more and more agents/ brokers are becoming aware of the web ranking strategies that Trulia employs to possibly dominate top positions in the search engines over local real estate agents and real estate companies. An article I wrote Trulias-web-ranking-strategies-come-under-fire is just one of many continuous articles discussing and exploring how Trulia may be using clever technical maneuvers to outrank the true source of it's content, real estate agents. If you have a moment, read th... Read Full Post

I am sooooo tired of harping on this, but, I don't know what else to do. Real estate agents and brokers continually link to websites like Trulia and the rest increasing their rankings at the expense of our own. In the last week, they have found themselves on the first page for more terms in the Atlanta area and it is out of ignorance that this is happening. THEY DO NOT PROVIDE CONSUMERS WITH ACCURATE INFORMATION! - at least not completely as it appears they do. Nor do they provide consumers w... Read Full Post

Warning! Warning! Many of us saw it coming and they just said it wasn't true. You may remember a post I wrote about Trulia and other third party real estate website listing services and how it will end up being nothing but bad news for the consumer in the long run. well, you may be interested in an email I just received from Trulia about PAID ADVERTISING. Here is an excerpt from that email: Greetings Ryan Ward, Thank you all for your hard work and participation on Trulia Voices! Trulia has be... Read Full Post

OK...Here's is my final rant on R.com... It is really my own beef with semantics, but it is important in my view... Enhanced listings on REALTOR.com In my view we send you guys at REALTOR.com freshly minted new listing EVERY DAY off of the assembly line. They are COMPLETE with good descriptions, tons of data and more than a few photos. We do our best as REALTORS to market the home online....Then you guys go and and do this with them... You mangled the comments and reduce the photos to only on... Read Full Post