Recently I was surfing ActiveRain and kept encountering a Zillow 404 page when I clicked on an interesting blog post. I thought this was a bit frustrating, but did not give it any more thought. A few weeks later, I encountered this page when I clicked on my own Mortgage Info page on my website.
After a bit of research, it turns out that Zillow has discontinued most of the free widgets that they previously offered to ActiveRain bloggers and real estate agents on their individual websites. The strange thing is, that instead of just ceasing to function, it redirects the whole webpage to a 404 page on the Zillow website moving the reader off of your website and on to the Zillow page.
If you have ever used a Zillow produced widget on your Blog or website, this could be happening to you now. Luckily, I only used one widget on one page and was quickly able to delete it. I highly recommend you go through your blog and website and remove these widgets before you suffer a significant website traffic loss!
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