This week, NAR officially approved indexing of websites by search engines as an acceptable use of IDX data. Here is a summary from REALTOR.org:
NAR’s Board of Directors:
“Amended the Multiple Listing and Internet Data Exchange Policy to conform to NAR virtual office Web site (VOW) policy and to make clear that participants may not use IDX-provided listings for purposes other than display on their Web sites but are not required to prevent indexing of their Web sites by recognized search engines.”
This is a clarification that was brought to the forefront when MIBOR (Metro Indy Board of REALTORS) sought to force their members with sites that indexed listings de-index them from major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and etc.
If everybody is going to be indexed now is there a good way to set yourself apart from the pack.
I’m glad they figured out Google wasn’t a scrapper site. Seems like they got the older generation to listen to us younger people for once!!
lol~
I am having issues with brokers wanting to opt out of IDX because their listings are coming up on my companies page before their own. I’m hoping that this will fade with time. I’ve been trying to promote the use of IDX!