Thread: Anyone used Trulia?

Trulia is very popular with realtors for marketing their listings online. You should definitely use it as part of your marketing mix.

Greetings,

We've been struggling quite a bit as an MLS community with the idea of some of these aggregators of listings. We've seen several examples where local real estate communities have been pushed out of the search engine results by the likes of Trulia, Zillow, Realtor.com, etc. It's important to ask the question of where your listings are going when you provide a feed to one of these syndicators.

Just a thought...

It's a backlink to your web site. A big plus. In addition, I've heard of agents taking an active part in the Q&A with consumers. This can be a big source of business between the blogging and Q&A. With any marketing, if you do it long enough, you'll succeed. That's always been my philosophy.

Hi Jupiter Homes - I can't speak for Trulia, but here's a few additional things to consider when using Zillow: Premier agents convert visitors (15.7 million in Jan. 2011) to contacts and then to clients. Read what they say~ There are multiple ways you can help grow your business using the 10 simple tools on Zillow. I also encourage the use of Real Estate Mobile Technology, it's something every agent in the industry should know about and be using since the consumers are. Zillow also provides all the free support and training you'll ever need to be successful using the tools and services they offer.

If you ever need any assistance, I'm here. I'm not just a member, I'm an employee.

PS: I'm new to this forum and haven't posted 15 times yet so I can't create links but here are the url's if you want to review the above underlined items.
Premier Agents - zillow.com/advertising/Testimonials.htm
Read what they say - zillow.com/advertising/Testimonials.htm
10 simple tools on Zillow - zillowacademy.com/2010/11/23/top-10-zillow-tools/
Real Estate mobile technology - zillowacademy.com/2011/01/22/real-estate-mobile-technology/
Support and Training - zillowacademy.com/

Originally Posted by ChrisWatters

It's a backlink to your web site. A big plus. In addition, I've heard of agents taking an active part in the Q&A with consumers. This can be a big source of business between the blogging and Q&A. With any marketing, if you do it long enough, you'll succeed. That's always been my philosophy.

Aren't those rel=nofollow links though? Google doesn't follow those and I don't believe they effect rankings (except that they look "natural", which helps search engines to trust your site)

Originally Posted by Brad Andersohn

Hi Jupiter Homes - I can't speak for Trulia, but here's a few additional things to consider when using Zillow: Premier agents convert visitors (15.7 million in Jan. 2011) to contacts and then to clients. Read what they say~ There are multiple ways you can help grow your business using the 10 simple tools on Zillow. I also encourage the use of Real Estate Mobile Technology, it's something every agent in the industry should know about and be using since the consumers are. Zillow also provides all the free support and training you'll ever need to be successful using the tools and services they offer.

If you ever need any assistance, I'm here. I'm not just a member, I'm an employee.

PS: I'm new to this forum and haven't posted 15 times yet so I can't create links but here are the url's if you want to review the above underlined items.
Premier Agents - zillow.com/advertising/Testimonials.htm
Read what they say - zillow.com/advertising/Testimonials.htm
10 simple tools on Zillow - zillowacademy.com/2010/11/23/top-10-zillow-tools/
Real Estate mobile technology - zillowacademy.com/2011/01/22/real-estate-mobile-technology/
Support and Training - zillowacademy.com/

Thanks Brad. I look forward to learning from your experience. What is your position at Zillow?

Originally Posted by Jupiter Homes

Thanks Brad. I look forward to learning from your experience. What is your position at Zillow?

I look forward to sharing. My position at Zillow is usually upright. haha~ Sorry...

I'm the outreach manager and one of the trainers at ZillowAcademy dot com.

Originally Posted by Jupiter Homes

Aren't those rel=nofollow links though? Google doesn't follow those and I don't believe they effect rankings (except that they look "natural", which helps search engines to trust your site)

I just double-checked the backlink. It indeed has a rel=nofollow which means Google won't use it to rank your site.

Here's a reference directly from Google: google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569

I have used Trulia and I found it quite a pleasant site with lots of useful articles and advice