Lenn Harley is scraping other Agent's/Broker's listings and pasting in her blog posts.
You must have permission to use another Agent's listing on your blog.
Redfin, was fined $50,000 for doing this.
MRIS agent Lenn Harley writes hundreds of blogs and is one of the top bloggers in Active Rain. Blogs are a great way to promote yourself in Active Rain, it also gets potential buyer calls, and it's more exposure in Google. These blogs are no joke. They show up strong in Google.
Type BC6907652 in google. Lenn's blog, http://activerain.com/blogsview/832240/BALTIMORE-COUNTY-MD-HOME-IN-SPARKS-GLENCOE-NO-MONEY-DOWN-FINANCING-AVAILABLE, comes up. This blog scraped a listing that belongs to Morrill & Company.
This is one example of many. Just go to her main blog here, http://activerain.com/blogs/lennharley.
Keep scrolling down the main blog, and you'll see plenty more. Here you go, http://activerain.com/blogsview/824823/GAITHERSBURG-MD-REAL-ESTATE-MARKET-REPORT-FOR-OCTOBER. This blog post copies a Gaithersburg listing from Weichert AND one from Exit Realty Enterprises. Ok, let's try a search in Google for MC6750963 yes, it's there.
Here's one scraped from Coldwell Banker, http://activerain.com/blogsview/816695/ANNAPOLIS-WATER-FRONT-LUXURY-HOMES-ARE-A-GOOD-BUY-IN-FALL. Type the MRIS number again, AA6741460, and sure enough on page 2 in google's results.
Http://activerain.com/blogsview/815078/FREDERICK-COUNTY-HOMES-FOR-SALE-WITH-NO-DOWN-PAYMENT-FINANCING-100-LOANS-ALL-CLOSING-PAID, copies 3 listings from other companies; Real Estate Teams LLC, Keller Williams, and Assist 2 Sell Buyers & Sellers Realty LLC.
Keep looking and you will find many many many more. How ironic when Lenn Harley and her attorney are the experts on Copyright and plagiarism, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rainradio/11/13/Copyright-and-the-INTERNET-
Other Realtors, are you ok with this? Is it ok if Lenn Harley blogs your Listing for her benefit? How about if an Agent does this in Craigslist or the Washington Post for their own personal gain? The Agent gets the phone call using YOUR listing and probably gets potential buyers to call in. Potential buyers that this Agent can now represent and make money from. Doesn't seem very ethical eithe
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