Comments on: Do Indexed Property Pages Increase Sales?

By: tanikagar

tanikagar — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:17:42 +0000

Wow. I don’t believe this! My blog traffic jumped to 2385 visits daily pure Google traffic since I started using this. To anybody who wants to find out how go to http:// bit.ly/cu8nsu. Take care.

By: Buyers Advocates

Buyers Advocates — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:09:00 +0000

Jeff you are right! A 404 redirect is more appropriate in these situations. The 301 is when your permanently to a new url. Thanks for enlightening me to read and understand better the difference between these 2 redirection types.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:10:00 +0000

Thanks My index pages just 404 when the listings are no longer available. Never really had a problem with that. I would love to hear some SEO experts weigh in on having them 301 vs 404. 404 means page no longer exists and 301 means page is permanently moved to new url.

By: Buyers Advocates

Buyers Advocates — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:20:00 +0000

There’s solution to that, you need setup a 301 redirect from these removed pages or products pages. When accessed user will redirected to homepage or whatever url you’ve set it up with. No crawl errors will be generated by Google and still your site is SEO friendly.

BTW, great article Jeff!

By: Yorba Linda Real Estate

Yorba Linda Real Estate — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:30:11 +0000

Hey there Jeff,

Very interesting post and i'm impressed with your observations - case study approach, I like it! Have read a few similar, yet not quite as in depth, discussions in a real estate forum a few days or perhaps a week back but cannot recall which one it was.

Anyways, the discussion went onto the topic of your getting your IDX pages indexed by google and its effects. From the consensus on the forum they pretty much agreed with you that getting your IDX pages indexed is a good thing.

The only thing that worried me, was that now that they are indexed, they now report crawl errors in google analytics when the listing is removed from your site (when the listing is sold or taken off the market). What I have read about crawl errors related to the IDX though is that they do not have much, if any, negative effect on your sites SEO as they are viewed by google as fast converting content. Have you heard similar stories about getting IDX pages indexed and recieveing crawl errors?

By: How Important ARE Indexed MLS Listings? | Real Estate Information

How Important ARE Indexed MLS Listings? | Real Estate Information — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:16:57 +0000

[...] the other day, I ran across a post over at the GeekEstateBlog. Jeff Manson actually did some testing of the impact of indexable [...]

By: Chris Dowell

Chris Dowell — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:59:48 +0000

Interesting post. I have been working on an idx and having them indexed. I have found that my indexed listings on my website do draw more traffic.

By: Jeff_Manson

Jeff_Manson — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:44:03 +0000

Hi Tony – Need top know your numbers in any business to make wise choices

By: Hawaii real estate

Hawaii real estate — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:15:38 +0000

Jeff you always have great info for us. keep it up man.

I like that your posts almost always have some math in there. It shows you're really crunching

By: Gail Anderson Realtor

Gail Anderson Realtor — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:03:24 +0000

Is there a recent post that weighs the various 3rd party IDX vendors out there right now, whether or not the pages indexible, and cost?