Houston Association of Realtors, better known as HAR is the countries largest association with over 27,000 members. The technology is superior and the web presence is astounding.
A couple of years ago HAR unveiled Houston Blogosphere. Currently our association members can blog, index their posts and categorize them under dozens of different subjects like Open Houses, Marketing, selling tips and more.
For the last year or so I had my HAR blog pointing to my Active Rain blog. That meant that I would have to type a blog on HAR.com if I wanted my local consumers see to see that particular post on HAR. It wasn't until today that HAR allowed my blog (here on Active Rain) to point BACK to HAR. My posts are now automatically synced in both directions. I'm only the second member to HAR to be doing this. Check out how it looks on HAR.
This is significant because the web traffic on HAR is insane....
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| April 2010 Web Statistics | |
| Hits For Entire Site | 1,729,596,128 |
| Page Views (Impressions) | 73,388,076 |
| Visitor Sessions | 5,038,647 |
| Unique Visitors | 1,346,634 |
| Average Visit Time On Site | 00:08:53 Minutes |
| Times Listing Viewed | 13,336,994 Detail Pages |
Currently there are over 17,000 Realtors in Houston and only 1,193 of them are Active Rain members. According to HAR 6,820 posts have been generated. That isn't very much considering Active Rain has over a million. I suspect the popularity of blogging in Houston will eventually catch on. I'm still surprised at the low level of blogging in Houston considering the popularity of our associations website and it's vast web presence.
I'm really excited and am hoping more HAR members will utilize Active Rain to work with HAR. It's just in Beta testing now so they likely won't add anymore members to this trial until all the kinks are worked out.
See you in the Rain!
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