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NAR Approves Search Engine Indexing
After sparking controversy earlier this year with its search engine indexing policy, the US National Association of Realtors (NAR) has clarified its stance, saying agents can allow search engines such as Google to index their listings.
The NAR postponed their vote on the issue back in May, leaving a policy in place that allowed member boards to force their agents to block search engines from indexing listings shared between agent websites via Internet Data Exchange (IDX) agreements.
NAR Web Indexing Vote Postponed
The US National Association of Realtors (NAR) has postponed a decision on whether members who allow search engines to index other agent’s listings are in violation of their policy.
Is an IDX Feed Important for Realtors’ Sites?
Realtors in the US work in a multilisting environment where they can be either a buyers agent or a sellers agent in the transaction and earn 50% of the ~6% commission available. To operate in this environment, it is important that realtors share their listings using a MLS (multilisting service). However, is it important for visitors to the realtor’s website to be able to see the listings of all realtors in the market?
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