Re: What are the best Real Estate Search Engines to Feed Listings to?
Hey Michael;
The agents (for the most part) in our office do not syndicate listings to non IDX participating organizations. Why? They are in my estimation your competition. If you Google Galveston TX homes for sale (for example), you will see a number of them competing with you.
If you were above them and or among them in the SERPS (and you are...), why would you deem it necessary to augment their listings with yours...
So they can be like REALTOR.com and charge you an extortion fee for "enhanced" listings?. Or sell advertising based on the attraction of your data?
Without listings...sites like Trulia dry up and blow away. With listings, they are capable of being formidable competitors.
A few agents out of our 108 do syndicate listings...but for the reasons above, the rest do not...
Just my thoughts.
Eric
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