{"id":3116,"date":"2008-05-14T16:19:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T23:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2008-05-14T16:19:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T23:19:25","slug":"mike-wallace-interviews-number1expert-and-trulia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3116\/mike-wallace-interviews-number1expert-and-trulia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Wallace interviews Number1Expert and Trulia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things have been busy around here lately. This controversy over Trulia’s widget baiting tactics rages on in the internet world. Now Sherry Chris has chimed in as well. (Kudos to you for entering the arena…others should follow). Bottomline is this: Trulia calls us partners. (REALTORS and them) Before someone calls ME partner, there is a fair amount of due diligence needed.<\/p>\n

Right now there are FAR more questions than answers. The research that has been going on has been productive, but what we NEED is honesty and transparency. It is what everybody wants from US, now why don’t we get that same transparency from the people raising so much hell about it. <\/p>\n

The facts on the table seem very disturbing.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Mike Wallace from 60 Minutes could help us get to the bottom of the issue?<\/p>\n

This is totally hypothetical, but it would go something like this…<\/p>\n

MW: Welcome gentlemen. There has been quite a controversy lately, Trulia, about your aggressive SEO practices.<\/p>\n

Trulia:<\/p>\n

MW: It seems that according to some bloggers and some search engine marketing professionals out there that you have pulled off quite a feat. You have managed to get tens of thousands of REALTORS to voluntarily ALL use your widgets all at once? How did you do it?<\/p>\n

Trulia:<\/p>\n

MW: That is how it happened, right? I mean your tools were SO cool that many people just decided that they HAD to use them and put them on their blogs and websites, right?<\/p>\n

Trulia:<\/p>\n

MW: From the research that a few of these folks have done MANY of these widgets appear at exactly the same place on the same exact pages over and over again on THOUSANDS of Number1Expert Sites all across the country…is that because each of these folks decided to put them there?<\/p>\n

Trulia & Number1Expert:<\/p>\n

MW: It seems pretty hard to believe that this was not done by Number1Expert… are we to beleive that? How did this come about? Since (according to reports) you have 2 and 3 links on EVERY one of the widgets pointed back to Trulia, it would seem that this is a great benefit to you. In fact, it has been reported Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things have been busy around here lately. This controversy over Trulia’s widget baiting tactics rages on in the internet world. Now Sherry Chris has chimed in as well. (Kudos to you for entering the arena…others should follow). Bottomline is this: Trulia calls us partners. (REALTORS and them) Before someone calls ME partner, there is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3089,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3089\/number1expert-re-launches-as-number2expert\/","url_meta":{"origin":3116,"position":0},"title":"Number1Expert Re-Launches as Number2Expert","author":"Eric Bramlett","date":"May 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In a surprise move, website template provider Number1Expert has announced plans to rebrand as Number2Expert. 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