{"id":26,"date":"2006-08-06T02:16:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T10:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/archives\/26"},"modified":"2006-09-09T15:58:52","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T23:58:52","slug":"mlsca-its-great-and-could-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/26\/mlsca-its-great-and-could-be-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Realtor.com and MLS.ca, They’re Great and could be better!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am going to try to keep this post as un-technical as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 But hey, when your start talking about Google and PageRank I think most people start to tune out.<\/p>\n

First off I have more experience with http:\/\/www.mls.ca\/<\/a> so I will be using this as an example, but a brief glance at realtor.com suggests that they likely suffer from the same problem.<\/p>\n

So here it goes, from what I have been noticing MLS.ca<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0generally forces all links off of their listings pages to be masked through a redirector page.\u00c2\u00a0 For an example, I have chosen a listing by Susan Man<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that we worked with her on<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 In her MLS listing<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0the links to her own site plus the links to all external\u00c2\u00a0websites have been changed to look like<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mls.ca\/redirect.aspx?r=http%3a%2f%2fwww.prompton.com&t=org<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I believe that the reason for this is so that MLS.ca can keep statistics about what people click on, the problem is that they force Google and other search engines to view pages the same way, which goes against Google’s Website Design Guidelines<\/a>. MLS.ca should allow Google and other search engines to view all links transparently.\u00c2\u00a0 It would help the online presence of the\u00c2\u00a0real-estate community as a whole.\u00c2\u00a0 It would also allow MLS.ca to easily remove some of\u00c2\u00a0the extra hits Google makes from MLS’s already slow servers.\u00c2\u00a0 I wouldn’t go so far as to say that doing this would speed up MLS.ca, but it would be a step in the right direction.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

P.S. My assumption that this is not already being done comes from the fact that\u00c2\u00a0I was searching through MLS.ca listings pages using googles stored cache, try typing “cache:” and then a website address into google to see what I mean.<\/p>\n

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I would like to add something more, I am not talking about MLS.ca giving its listing data away to third parties.\u00c2\u00a0 I understand the reasoning behind not doing that.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0I am only talking about them having a system that allows Google Page Rank to be calculated effectivly for the sites linked to from MLS.ca, this would increase the pagerank of all the realtors on MLS\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am going to try to keep this post as un-technical as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 But hey, when your start talking about Google and PageRank I think most people start to tune out. First off I have more experience with http:\/\/www.mls.ca\/ so I will be using this as an example, but a brief glance at realtor.com suggests […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}