Comments on: Completely didn’t see Terabitz going the…

By: Looks like Terabitz is serious about… « 4realz.net

Looks like Terabitz is serious about… « 4realz.net — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:01:28 +0000

[...] White-labeling a quality broker site is decent idea for a business, but worthy of $10M in funding? [...]

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:46:08 +0000

Brian and Jessie: I just thought I’d pipe in to say that I thought it was quite interesting that Trulia went the subdomain route for the branded sites. But then again, it is a freebie for these sites, so I guess they can’t ask for too much.

By: Jessie B

Jessie B — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:04:40 +0000

Brian – Totally 100% agree with you.

I have noticed in a few other posts that it seems like even some of the more experienced web individuals maybe under that impression. BTW – good work on Y real estate over the last major update.

By: Brian Rothenberg

Brian Rothenberg — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:00:04 +0000

@ Jessie – I wouldn’t expect Trulia to broadcast the fact that their new co-branded listing pages won’t be indexed by SEs. I’m sure many sites will think they are gaining a web footprint by launching such a site.

By: Jessie B

Jessie B — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:42:45 +0000

@ Brian – did a check after my post and yes, they are blocking it out via robots.txt for each sub-domain.

It will be interesting to see if the webmasters of smaller sites do the sub domain with the thoughts they are increasing their web footprint since some are not as web savvy.

By: 2.0 Weblogs

2.0 Weblogs — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:42:43 +0000

iSee you have a twitter, google facebook addiction… guess mine?

http://ThunkDifferent.com

By: Brian Rothenberg

Brian Rothenberg — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:18:18 +0000

@Jessie B

Trulia is pretty SEO savvy – I’m sure they will simply exclude search engine bots from crawling/indexing these partner sites in order to avoid duplicate content issues. It’s a pretty simple problem to avoid if they do it correctly.

By: Jessie B

Jessie B — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:50:16 +0000

I completely agree with Dustin regarding Terabitz. They are simply looking for revenue now. The Trulia item is done to get listings and links but a possible issue with the idea maybe a fall off from the search engines of T results due to duplicate content from all the partners. Time will tell but I think T is pretty dependant on those organic results so this could maybe do more harm than good in the long run.

By: Scott Rogers

Scott Rogers — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:36:13 +0000

I predict that in 2008 we’ll see even more existing companies begin to offer advanced, but templated web sites to leverage well-developed search technology to benefit brokers, agents, and most importantly — consumers.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:23:08 +0000

I completely follow that logic Todd… but I get the impression that Terabitz is looking at this as a revenue stream as oppose to a way to get more listings.