Google Insights for Search is a fantastic new tool that allows you to dig into Google’s search volume patterns to find trends.
While I think there are a lot of ways you can use this tool (see agentgenius.com), I think that for most marketers the geographic breakdowns will be one of the most interesting - mainly [...]
I’ve had a few days to play around with Realtor.com’s new Neighborhood tool and I like a lot of what I see so far. But I’ll get the obvious criticisms out of the way first; it really, really doesn’t play very well yet with Firefox in OSX (or at all in Safari) - there are [...]
by skypecaptain
Recently I received a tip that someone was spamming Trulia Voices with advertisements for Realtor.com. The allegations which are detailed on this page were basically that a user was repeatedly responding to individual queries with short answers that provided links back to Realtor.com (you can see all the answers on their profile). The Voices [...]
The lumbering beast that is Move.com is slowly transforming itself and just like a snake, it’s shedding it’s skin - but can it really get rid itself of an overwhelmingly negative reputation in this industry?
I think it’s trying to, with some degree of success.
They’ve scored some small scale PR victories of late with initiatives like [...]
From the Seattle PI, the Northwest Multiple Listing Service dumps Realtor.com
The Northwest Multiple Listing Service will stop sending its home listings to the nation’s most popular real estate Web site in April. Local real estate executives disagree over whether the move is about focusing the MLS on providing information to its members or making [...]
Several weeks ago, I was contacted by Red Herring Magazine to comment on a piece they were working on about the new crop of Web 2.0 real estate companies. [Interestingly, only days after I spoke with the reporter, she announced she had moved over to tech-industry blogger Om Malik's new site GigaOm.]
You can read it [...]
With the launch of Yahoo! Real Estate’s new home page this week, the online real estate search space is heating up again. I’m interested in what the real estate community and readers of this blog think about all the new options for home shoppers out there.So, I’ve posted a new poll on my site, which [...]
