A few days ago I posted a blog about the unusual fact that my most visited virtual tour was of the mall (see http://activerain.com/blogsview/1136956/my-most-popular-virtual-tour-the-mall-)
When I looked at the stats for all my virtual tours, I noticed something even odder: one of our Albuquerque Malls was far more popular than another with virtual visitors!
Coronado Mall, my "most visited" virtual tour, had been viewed by 1263 visitors. That was more than 50% more visits than the competing Cottonwood Mall, located on Albuquerque's West Side, which had only 712 visits.
Cottonwood Mall wasn't even the "second most popular" virtual tour; that honor belonged to the tour of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta (which I would have pegged to be the top attraction, tour-wise myself.)
So what made one virtual tour more popular than the other? Until viewing the tour, non-Albuquerqueans wouldn't even have known the location of one vs. the other.
Is it something in the immediate look of the tour? Compare the two, and let me know if you notice one having better shopping "curb appeal" than the other:
Coronado Mall Tour:
Cottonwood Mall Tour:
And by the way, there's a definite pattern-- more web visitors looked at my "Albuquerque attractions and events" than looked at my property virtual tours, so maybe it's a good idea to get good community virtual tours up on the web!
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Hi Laura ~ That's very mysterious. I wondered if it was placement on your site but I saw the list of shows and that doesn't seem to be the case. And the less popular shopping center is actually probably the more interesting of the two in terms of what you see in the mall - but nobody would know that before watching.
I am really impressed with your shows - they're great! And that's some excellent traffic. I've bookmarked realestateshows.com and may sign up. Nice job!
Liz