Category: IDX

MRED Versus Zillow – Score tied, MRED Nill, Zillow Nill

MRED and Zillow are tied at Zero

So, Zillow’s IDX feed got yanked by MRED due to violations from Compass, stirring up a ton of drama in real estate. Everyone’s picking sides, with some hailing MRED as heroes and others backing Zillow. The court gave Zillow its feed back but with restrictions. It’s a fierce battle for marketplace control, and the future is anyone’s guess.

What You Need to Know About NAR, the MLS, and Public Facing Websites

The Multiple Listing Issues and Policy Committee worked diligently and efficiently at the Mid-Year meetings on recommendations made by the MLS Technology & Emerging Issues Advisory Board, who had in turn been working since last November on a revision to the categorization of services provided by Multiple Listing Services.

Why Telling Google Who the Author is Shouldn’t Be Difficult for the MLS

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucious Two days ago, I wrote a blog post about the MLS using Author and Canonical tags to increase the SEO of their member’s sites with Google.The concept is simple,…

Why the MLS Needs to Tell Google Who Owns the Listing

As I and countless others have written here and elsewhere, real estate companies are no longer the “keepers of the gate” when it comes to consumers and property data. According to Google however, in the ZMOT (Zero Moment of Truth)…

Sex, Lies and the MLS – Why Nobody Does it Better

I spent much of my time as a real estate agent working for a small real estate office operated by a would-be never-was attorney who never built a large real estate operation, but had a great deal of real estate…