But I think if you are ranking that well for so many long tail rental phrases that your .o4% number seems really low.

Um, 0.04% of 6,000,000 = 2,400

Thanks,

Rudy
Social Media Guru at Trulia.com

.04% of your 6 million is 24,000.

I gotta think 24,000 people going to a site without rentals makes Google look bad.

We get a small amount of traffic from rental queries, it represents approx 0.04% of our traffic. I’m pretty sure Google will figure out that there are much better sites online for rentals However, we do get lots of traffic from people asking rental related questions on Trulia Voices, our thriving real estate community. And lastly, we do not have a direct line to the Google search team.

Have a wonderful night.

Rudy
Social Media Guru at Trulia.com

I would have to respectfully disagree with you, I think you are getting a ton of long tail traffic for the rental space.

By a ton, I mean a ton as it refers to my traffic levels – for Trulia that gets 6 million visits a month it is nothing however.

Do you think it is a little unfair that you rank so well for the rental space without even trying?

I know this is really Google’s issue. Google need to fix this so Trulia does not show up in the rental SERPS since it provides a poor user experience for Google visitors and Trulia visitors.

“Are they doing this on purpose? No, I don’t think so, they are trying to give the user a nice experience by not messing up the page. Google looks at intent – and I don’t think they are intentionally doing this to get people looking for rentals on their site but I am sure they get a ton of traffic because of it.”

What you are referring to is a javascript pop-up. It’s there because there is way too much text on the page. We do not get tons of traffic from this at all. As you know, we do not have rentals on Trulia so the rental traffic is negligible.

Hope this clears it up.

Thanks,

Rudy
Social Media Guru at Trulia.com

Typically people that do not use their real names on this blog work for my competition.

I know this because they mostly comment from work or the place where their client is.

It is OK that you don’t use your real name, I enjoy the banter.