{"id":2203,"date":"2019-04-16T13:04:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T18:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realuoso.com\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2019-04-16T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T18:09:12","slug":"get-9-star-rating-zillow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-marketing\/get-9-star-rating-zillow\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get a 9 star rating on Zillow when you&#8217;re limited to 5 stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say that you ask all of your customers to rate you on Zillow. Let&#8217;s say that you think it&#8217;s the best site since sliced bread (or you hate it, whatever, that matters not in this scenario).<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s also say that you&#8217;re either an overachiever or a smartass and you believe that your five star rating is simply <em>too low<\/em> and that you have actually earned more stars throughout your stellar career.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do? How do you break out of the &#8220;Five Star Zone&#8221; without paying people to rate and rank you and without bribing Zillow? <\/p>\n<p><em>You get creative<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Frank Llosa, Esq., Broker of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.franklyrealty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frankly Real Estate<\/a>, who is both hated and revered for his endless pushing of the envelope. Years ago, he figured out a way around the five star rating system on Zillow without any cash exchanging hands. <\/p>\n<p>How? Behold: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/frankly.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/frankly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/frankly.jpg 525w, https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/frankly-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Llosa did this stunt long ago, but Zillow never shut him down (and if they had, he&#8217;s used to his shenanigans being stifled). <\/p>\n<p>Will Zillow shut you down if you try this? Probably.<\/p>\n<p>While hilarious, it does prove that the web doesn&#8217;t limit the creative, rather, it unveils the endless opportunities to capture consumers&#8217; attention &#8211; wouldn&#8217;t you take a second look at a 9-star agent on Zillow? I sure would!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MARKETING) When you&#8217;re limited to just a few stars on Zillow or similar sites, how do you prove to the public that you&#8217;re worth many more stars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335811,"featured_media":2204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1234,371,102],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-marketing","tag-real-estate-news","tag-realtor-ratings","tag-zillow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/five-stars.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14193,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/14193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}