Zillow Expands – Are You Participating?
April 9th, 2007 by KristinaZillow launched some interesting new features to their site last week. Rewarding participating owners, agents, and consumers for asking and answering questions in your field of experience. By participating you can be apart of the community and be shown as the local expert. With the traffic and advertising Zillow is experiencing, this may be a good move for you. On the other hand, helping Zillow grow may be a detrement to your business in the long run. Where do you stand? Have you chimed in and answered any questions in your neighborhood? Viewed your listings that you have for sale and made sure they were activated them in Zillow? How has it worked out for you?
Checking our Rich Barton’s profile page shows many questions that he has been answering to help grow the new sections.
They have also started a new EZ Ads program to advertise in local sections (think zip code) of the website. If you are looking to do more advertising, this may also be a program you wish to check out.
Let us know your thoughts!
I see this was published in April. In that time, I have joined Zillow and posted my listings as a Realtor. The questions field is a bit nebulous and I have not had an opportunity to answer any questions as pertains to my local area.
Has anyone else had any success at this?
Oh, and what is with their property values? Are they as “off” in other areas of the country as they are in mine?
A Marietta Real Estate Agent
June 12th, 2007