Track record

Transaction History: Your Track Record as Machine-Readable Proof

GeoGenius Team4 min read

Every agent website says some version of the same thing: top producer, trusted, proven results. An AI engine deciding who to recommend can't do anything with adjectives — every profile has them. What it can do something with is a structured record of actual closed sales: addresses, prices, dates, machine-readable.

That's what your transaction history becomes on GeoGenius. One upload turns your production into the strongest kind of visibility signal: the checkable kind.

Why evidence beats claims

Our 36-market study found that when queries got more specific, engines reached further past the big portals: on specialty queries, 64.3% of citations went to long-tail sources — sites outside the 25 most-cited domains, overwhelmingly individual agent and brokerage sites — versus 37.1% on generic queries. Specific questions pull engines toward pages with specific substance.

A transaction history is the most specific substance you have. "I know Curtis Park" is a claim. Fourteen closed sales in Curtis Park, listed by address and date, is a record — and one that's easily checked against public sale data, which is precisely what makes publishing it credible. You're putting facts on the record that you'd have to be foolish to fabricate.

What one upload powers

Your public track record. Your profile gains the numbers buyers and engines both want: total sales, total volume, average price, price range, and your buyer-side/seller-side split. The cities you've closed in are merged into your served areas — so your coverage claims are backed by where you've actually transacted.

Structured data. Your recent sales are published in your profile's JSON-LD as machine-readable transaction records — each with its address, price, and date — alongside aggregate figures. An engine parsing your profile doesn't have to interpret prose about your production; it reads the fields.

Your sold pages. Once three or more of your sales cluster in one neighborhood, GeoGenius can build a dedicated page: homes sold in that neighborhood, by you, with every sale listed. These pages answer the exact question behind a seller's search — "who actually sells homes here?" — with evidence. The pages guide covers how they're built.

Your score. Transaction Authority is worth 10 of the visibility score's 100 points. Zero transactions means zero of those points, no matter how good the rest of your profile is.

How the upload works

  1. Export your closed sales from wherever they live — MLS, your brokerage's back office, your own spreadsheet. CSV or Excel, any layout.
  2. Upload from your dashboard. There's no template to match: GeoGenius reads your actual column headers and maps them automatically, so a raw MLS export works as-is.
  3. Each sale is geocoded — resolved to coordinates and a micro-neighborhood, which is what makes neighborhood-level clustering (and your sold pages) possible.
  4. Your profile updates — track record, structured data, and sold-page clusters all re-derive from the new data.

Include what you have: address and city are the only essentials, and price, date, beds, baths, square footage, property type, and your role (buyer or seller side) each make the record richer. Rows with gaps still count.

Two honest notes. GeoGenius doesn't connect to MLS feeds — this is your export, uploaded by you, which also means it works for any market and any MLS without integration headaches. And these are closed sales — public-record events — not client information; nothing about your buyers or sellers is published.

Where to start

The free Starter plan includes 20 transactions. If you're new to GeoGenius, upload your most recent twenty — ideally concentrated in the neighborhoods you farm, since three-plus sales in one neighborhood is what unlocks a sold page. On a paid plan, upload everything: a decade of production is a decade of evidence, and it all feeds the same record.

Not sure whether this is your gap? Run the free visibility check — Transaction Authority is scored explicitly, so you'll see exactly what an empty track record is costing you. Then pair your sales data with knowledge pins: transactions prove where you've closed, pins prove you know why.

Frequently asked questions

How do I upload my transaction history to GeoGenius?+

From your dashboard, upload a CSV or Excel export of your closed sales — from your MLS, brokerage back office, or your own spreadsheet. There's no required template: GeoGenius reads your column headers and maps them automatically. Each sale is then geocoded to its coordinates and neighborhood.

What does uploading transactions actually do?+

Four things. It builds the track-record section of your public profile (sales count, total volume, price range, buyer/seller split). It publishes your recent sales as structured data engines can parse. It feeds your sold pages — three or more sales in one neighborhood can become a dedicated page. And it drives the Transaction Authority dimension, worth 10 of your score's 100 points.

What fields should my transaction file include?+

At minimum, an address and city per sale. Price, sale date, beds, baths, square footage, property type, and whether you represented the buyer or seller all enrich the record. Missing fields don't block the upload — a row with just an address still geocodes and counts.

Is my transaction data verified?+

It's self-reported by you and geocoded by us — GeoGenius doesn't pull from MLS feeds or public records. Closed sales are the kind of claim that's easily checked against public sale records, which is exactly why publishing them in specific, structured form is credible: you're putting checkable facts on the record, not adjectives.

How many transactions can I upload?+

The free Starter plan includes up to 20 transactions — enough to see your track record and first sold page take shape. Paid plans (Visibility and up) have no limit, so your full history counts.

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