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Technical SEO audits for real estate sites

Real estate sites have a brutal index-churn problem. MLS feeds rotate listings every few hours, sold properties become soft-404s, and agent profile pages multiply. Wrendex audits the listing catalog at MLS-feed cadence, not at quarterly-agency cadence.

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Issues that frequently surface on real-estate sites

6 common patterns from real audits.

Sold listings become soft-404s

When a listing closes, the page often renders a generic "property not available" template at HTTP 200. Search engines treat that as a soft-404 and keep crawling it for weeks.

Agent profile pages share a title

Profile templates default to "Agent | Brokerage Name" without interpolating the agent name. Hundreds of profiles collapse into a single SERP entry.

MLS-feed updates churn the URL set

Listings get re-syndicated under different IDs across the MLS region. The same property accrues multiple URLs with different canonicals, splitting link equity.

Listing pages missing RealEstateListing JSON-LD

Templates render price and square footage in HTML but never emit structured data, so listings miss eligibility for rich-result placement on property searches.

City and neighborhood pages over-paginate

Search-results templates for /homes-for-sale/<city> generate hundreds of paginated URLs without rel=prev/next or a canonical strategy, consuming crawl budget before the long tail is reached.

Open-house events tracked as duplicate URLs

Each open-house gets a unique URL appended to the listing instead of being represented as an Event on the listing page itself. Bots crawl the same property dozens of times.

Wrendex catalog checks that fire on real-estate sites

9 checks, 5 linked. Linked checks open the full catalog entry: what it is, why it matters, how to fix it. The rest are industry-specific checks fired during the audit; their detail pages arrive in the next catalog refresh.

• 404-on-crawled (detail page coming)
• soft-404 (detail page coming)
• canonical-missing
• canonical-points-to-4xx
• title-duplicate
• title-missing
• redirect-chain
• RealEstateListing JSON-LD missing (detail page coming)
• Expired listings return 200 (detail page coming)

What an audit run on a real-estate site actually produces

5 steps on the first run.

1. Crawl the listing catalog. Wrendex samples city, neighborhood, and individual listing URLs, plus the agent profile set, at the cadence of your MLS feed updates.
2. Detect soft-404s on sold listings. The audit compares response bodies against the live-listing template and flags pages whose body collapsed to the "unavailable" state without changing status code.
3. Cluster duplicates by property identity. Listings that share an MLS ID across multiple URLs are grouped so the canonical strategy can be set in one place.
4. Get fix copy per template. Each finding ships with the exact 410 vs 301 decision and the JSON-LD shape for RealEstateListing and Event.
5. Re-crawl after the next MLS sync. Wrendex re-runs the affected URL families on the first audit after the next feed update.

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