Yahoo has an exclusive agreement with Prudential. We have to pay a 35%
commission if any leads close but our office hasn't figured the system out yet so I guess I don't have to worry about that for now!!! 

Noreen Parrell   

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I personally think that the agreement with Prudential and Yahoo is unprofessional. It is questionable about meeting IDX requirements, and YOU have to pay 35% for the lead?! Unreal.... and my sellers get pissed when they go to Yahoo! And see some Pru agent that looks like they have the listing.   

I am not filtering my listings to Yahoo for that very reason. Advanced Access has a featured listing that if you put the address in then it will go to Yahoo. I no longer do that. I will not allow Pru to take my leads, and if AA wants to be in on this game, then they will lose me as well. I've sent several complaints to Prudential, NAR and Yahoo over this. My best advice is don't' pay 35% for any lead... Especially one that was gotten by ill gains..

I'm really ashamed of Prudential and Yahoo over this whole mess.  I have sellers calling and emailing me wondering why it looks like they are listed with Prudential?  Not good.... Not good at all. 

Shame on Prudential for this scheme and shame on the agents that take advantage of it.  Shame on Yahoo, cause they just lost my business, and shame on Advanced Access for floating my leads over to yahoo, so that Pru can steal them; 

What goes around, comes around. 

Paula Bean

I used to get about 60% of my leads from Yahoo. For the last 4 months, I am getting nothing.  I just went to do a search on Yahoo for St. Louis City Homes and did not find my website. I gave up after looking at the first 100.  However, when I did a search on Yahoo for my specific web address, it went right to it. Any thoughts. Thanks in advance. 

Ronald Gorman

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Yahoo has had a major shake up in the past few months. Many, many agent sites have disappeared from the results. I was #1 for a couple of years for "milwaukee real estate" and now I'm suddenly nowhere to be found. My main competing site is another Advanced Access site that is not nearly as customized as my site, with much less content and offerings. I can't figure out why Yahoo likes his site better than mine. Mine has been around a lot longer and has a lot more unique content. 

Another site that ranks high is a local agent's page that is simply the provided "agent page," from our company website, mixed with an old Z57 site. There is no logic to it at all. 

Yahoo seems to be prefering very simple HTML or basic sites. I rank high on Google and MSN for the same keyword phrase, so for Yahoo to dump me makes no sense either. 

It's probably Yahoo and not you. I would work on getting better results in Google, because the results that yahoo is spitting out (not just for real estate) is going to frustrate people and they will use other search engines. 

Kristin Noll

I just received a call from someone at Yahoo who started the conversation by saying they had a list of inquiries for waterfront property in my area.

They noticed on my RE/MAX profile that I do waterfront property. For a one time set up fee of $79.95 and a monthly fee of $25.00, they would put me in one of the top 3 positions to receive these referrals. What say you ePros????

Greg Cox