., home type, room number, beds, amenities, and others.Smart pricingBooking portals like Airbnb offer a “smart pricing” feature that lets their algorithm decide the nightly rate based on the market.

Zillow is great but because they use a standard algorithm it can easily be off by 20-50k.  

Is it just an algorithm that makes an educated guess based upon the mortgage amortization period, origination date, and purchase price?

For an explanation on the Google algorithm update that tackled duplicate and low-quality content you can read about it here: http://searchengineland.com/library/google/google-...If you're unsure if your content is copied, just copy a sentence of the article, and past it into Google search with quotes around it.

It's all just algorithmic guesswork.

If your skills are so pathetically lacking that you cannot satisfactorily explain to a seller why the robotic algorithm that produces Zillow's "Zestimate" is not as accurate as a local expert with boots-on-the-ground knowledge and market knowledge, then you ought to go back for Sales 101 Training.If you intend to get consensus for your argument, learn to state and support it in a cogent manner in the forum you wish to influence.Feel the love.

Plus we worked out a deal where I'm doing some of the work because I couldn't afford his full price...LOLIt seems though that as google keeps improving it's algorithms it's becoming harder and hard to "game" the system.

Now, you may be picturing me coding high-speed trading algorithms but I am patient investor with a long term view.

Yes, we all know and promote the thought ‘content is the king’, but apart from this, there are several other factors which can make your content marketing campaign, a success.It is evident that Google’s ranking algorithm has made many once successful SEO practices have become irrelevant.

There's also platforms like beyondpricing and wheelhouse that use pricing algorithms to do it for you.