Problems with Craiglist Listings

I've been having problems putting listings into Craigs List lately. I noticed the issue some time ago and it still seems to be there. Essentially, when I put a listing in, it seems to go in, and looks fine when I go to the link directly, but it never seems to show up in the index for that city. The other day I put in one for some sizable Michigan acreage back home in south central MI (http://jxn.craigslist.org/reb/2344858717.html) and it didn't show up. Today, I did a Water Front Condo at Devils Lake (http://toledo.craigslist.org/reb/2349463953.html)and it's not also showing up. If anyone knows whats going on with that I'd love to hear it.

Major Acreage close to Detroit! A rarity

There's some beautiful coutryside that can can be seen from the little town that I grew up in. Rolling hills, farm land, and forest. Over the years it's been harder and harder to get tracts of any significant size, as they usually get divided up more and more and are just not available the closer you get to the Detroit area. So I was surprised to here from my mom that a large tract was available there. It's about 90 minutes from downtown Detroit. And some of the farmland is currently being leased for enough money to pay the taxes. Makes me wish I could come up with the cash for it.
http://www.remericasomersetrealty.com/listings/386.html

Lakefront Homes as low as they will probably get

It looks like Lake front homes are at very nice prices for people looking to buy these days. While prices may stay low for another year or two, it's also possible that they won't, especially here in Michigan where the Auto industry may be poised for a comeback. So if you've been waiting for the right time to buy that special lakehouse, be carefull how long you wait. As we say where I grew up, "there's only so much lake front"

Handling Obsolete Listings

I've been wondering for sometime about coming up with a better way to handle obsolete listings. When I originally set up the site, it only had the companies listings. When a listing became obsolete, the site was set up to display an index of listings when that particular page address was requested. When I started adding MLS listings, I did something similar. At first, the MLS Listings received good traffic through Google search, but it's tapered off. My suspicion is that, since all these page addresses eventually point to the same content, that Google is penalizing me for that. Likewise, I don't just want to throw out a "page not found" message for someone coming to the site. So I'm looking for alternatives. I think I might try adding the Google Canonical tag.

Where's the Date

I'm trying to figure out how to display the date on my blog comments. I can only see the time. Is the assumption that all comments would be same day?? Strange. If anyone can shed light on that for me please let me know.

Google Maps now has Real Estate Listings

If you hadn't noticed, Goggle Maps now has Real Estate Listings. To see what listings they have in the area your interested, go to http://maps.google.com and double click the map repeatedly to zoom in to the area your interested in. Next, click on the button titled "more". There should be a check box there that says "Real Estate" that you can check.



And here's a live link to this
Southern Michigan Google Real Estate Map

Here's how it looks as an iframe on your site:

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