Comments on: Trulia Now Offering Featured Listings

By: Sam Chapman

Sam Chapman — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:29:46 +0000

Agtents need to stop adding thrie listings to Trulia, Yahoo, Zillow and all the other syndication sites. Local IDX searches are superior in just ablut all ways.

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:33:06 +0000

Supplying Trulia with featured listings is like feeding the Eggplant That Ate Chicago. There is short term benefit. But, in the long term their goal is to eclipse individual Realtors in the serp’s. The more content we give them, the easier that is to accomplish.

By: Jim Olenbush

Jim Olenbush — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:49:40 +0000

Sites like Trulia and Zillow are desperate to get our listings because that is what their visitors want to see. I don’t care to help them, and I certainly don’t need to pay them for marketing!

By: Dennis in Florence Oregon

Dennis in Florence Oregon — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:54:35 +0000

I saw this coming as well, in fact I wrote my own Blog about Trulia last year (Trulia; Friend or Foe). I wish more RealtorsÂ® would realize they are hurting our industry by using companies like these. Many of these agents think they are better representing their sellers by adding their listings on Trulia. It's not true! You should not feel that you have to advertise your listings on every crappy website that is trying to infiltrate our business.You are 100% correct that our IDX is far superior to any of these 3rd party sites, we have ALL the listings. Why would anyone search for real estate on a website that only has some of the listings?

By: Michael Oliver

Michael Oliver — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:25:24 +0000

Everyone can “get” info about real estate whether it’s in Tucson, LA, or New York but there is so much more to it and so many emotions to it that computer programers just can’t comprehend this. Eventually someone someday will get very close as the internet keeps improving but even then, trying to predict the real estate market is just as tough as predicting the stock market and I have yet to see a computer program/ website that can do that either. Now real estate agents will need to embrace the internet and learn it to be considered for business but thats just the new way to prospect and be highly leveraged, whereas 20 years ago it was called the yellow pages.

By: Bob in San Diego

Bob in San Diego — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:00:35 +0000

David,

I would have to agree with you 100% instead of wasting whatever the cost is on purchasing a Featured Listing on any of those sites why not just advertise a listing with PPC under that areas name?

Way more cost effective and targeted traffic specifically looking to buy a home in that area.

By: Tony Sena

Tony Sena — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:22:14 +0000

I couldn’t agree more about wasting your time (assistant) placing your client’s home on inferior sites. I go through that all the time!

Trulia was less than 1% (.0087%) of my traffic when I placed listings on their site. Not worth my time!

By: Mike Taylor

Mike Taylor — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:21:07 +0000

I could not agree more. Trulia and others are attempting to pull the wool over agents eyes. It just makes me so mad when big companies are boasting about putting their listings on Trulia. We really need to educate other agents and brokers.

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:44:50 +0000

Trulia and Zillow are worthless in my market. They won’t get my listings for much longer.

By: Barry Cox

Barry Cox — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:59:15 +0000

Yeah, it was only a matter of time. I got a call while I was in the airport over the holidays from someone with the newest latest and greatest real estate site, where they can put my listings up for free. He claims they had over 200,000 hits in the first month on the site. Lucky me, I can help them build up their site for free with my listings so I can buy a featured listing later on down the road…. Yeah right….