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By: BYTEPLAY » Blog Archive » For US listing brokers

BYTEPLAY » Blog Archive » For US listing brokers — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:31:36 +0000

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By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:57:58 +0000

Tim: You’re definitely right that differentiation is key for agents if they want to be effective on the internet!

By: Tim O'Keefe

Tim O'Keefe — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:39:31 +0000

This should be a wakeup call to the *plug n play onliners. If agents are not creating content their sites will be relegated to what the general population of agents have been for years, a commodity without differentation (in the publics eyes of course).

*plug n play- or “set it and forget it” websites. Put IDX and a couple templated content pages and pray for business.

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Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:01:58 +0000

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By: Kevin Boer

Kevin Boer — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:34:03 +0000

Why crawl all the IDX sites? They can just tag behind Roost and slurp up all their data…

By: frankschulteladbeck

frankschulteladbeck — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:00:37 +0000

Thank you for the information. I think your analysis is spot on.Current sites like Zillow and Trulia are looking into ways to extend their reach, but many real estate professionals do not have much care for them. It will be interesting to see how the lawsuit with Zillow and its estimates will turn out.

By: loren nason

loren nason — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:40:35 +0000

whats the point with DotHomes already entering a crowded marketplace of Home Search Portals.

How will they make money? Yes they can sell ads, but selling ads is pointless if their is no traffic and I don’t see it getting much if any traffic

By: Jessie B

Jessie B — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:38:52 +0000

Excellent write up about dothomes.com. A possible issue I see is the scrutiny they may receive for scraping the listing information. You may remember when Trulia launched – http://www.raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/

For the comparison against Roost – all dothomes needs to do to get MLS listings is crawl broker sites with IDX feeds or public access MLS sites. This is a fairly simple process, as we have already indexed most of roost I don’t see it as being too difficult for dothomes to do the same but I do agree it maybe difficult to update based on current format of individual listings.

Dustin, since you get all the info.. do you know how they plan on monetizing the site? Looking at the uk it seems to be simple sponsored advertisting or will they go the trulia / realtor route and offer “featured” advertising?

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