The free score you see on credit karma and bankrate.com is the vantage III score which uses a newer algorithm started by credit reporting agencies.

So I help folks fix their busted up credit on a fairly regular basis, I have a go-to credit fixer company that I'll use if I can't figure it out, bla bla bla.The truth is that FICO treats its exact algorithms as a trade secret.

They are booking your property based on two things: (1) the quality of the listing (description and especially, photos) and (2) your reviews (if you keep the guest experience matching the listing and price point, you will have good reviews).To increase occupancy, there are many well known techniques: using hotel style price algorithms, offering point of sale extensions of stay, lowering the minimum daily stay during periods unlikely to otherwise book.

The platforms (Airbnb/VRBO) boost your listing in the first month it is on the market and depending on the views and booking it gets in the first month sets your "ranking" in the algorithm.

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.

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

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.

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.

So I'm triggering something in the algorithms that generates good lists to market to.

They get close, and are helpful for initial screens, but the algorithms still require some fine tuning.