Top Domain Results. Appearing more than 5 times in our study.

• Realtor.com (51)
• Homegain.com (34)
• RealEstate.Yahoo.com (18)
• Homes.com (<10)
• Trulia.com (<10)
• ePowereedProfessionals (<7) 

Top Web Developers

• Custom Site (Most common)
• AdvancedAccess.com
• Number1Experts.com
• RealEstateWebmasters.com

We had 130 sites that were "Custom", 64 sites that were AdvancedAccess and 14 Number1Experts.  We have some other interesting data to share from this study as well - more later.

Go to www.alexa.com to check out website rankings. It is a great tool for listing appointments to counteract misinformation. I print out the webpages and take them with me. It is pretty inrefutable to put them in front of a seller after being told by another agent that their company's ranking is such and such, when in reality it is not.

Alexa is a good tool and it is used as one parameter in our determination of rankings.

Thanks,

Mark Sprenger

I found that alexa.com had my really old website up still...about 6-8 months old.  I wondered how often they cache their info???

There are many good tools and resources out there.  Alexa, compete, and on and on.  We don't consider any of these the authoratative measure - even if you look at each and the methodologies they use to collect data.  They often do not match in their assessment of indivdual sites so you have to take all the "legitimate" tools into account.   We always turn to Google and Yahoo data as the most authoratative, and after all they drive the majority of traffic.  Unfortunately, these two search leaders don't share raw numbers so we are left to devise ways to interpret results and that is what our study is all about.  Basically if we know the search traffic for particular keywords / phrases using our own data from running hundreds of sponsored campaigns then we compare the organic results against those numbers and we have a good idea of who is doing a good job organically.  We then factor in all the other tools including Google's webmaster tools, Alexa, Compete, Yahoo, MSN, etc. for links, traffic and overall web PR efforts then we have a basis to rank an individuals website.

Alexa's images don't seem to get updated as frequently as the data. 

Ian Polling
eSource Marketing

Guess What!  We are in the process of generating a new list.  If you think your area was under represented in this list please email us at info@esourceagent.com with TOP 100 in the subject line.  We will make sure that your area is at least looked at for inclusion.  Last year we looked at over 100 different sites this year we will look at weven more and possibly add some additional criteria.

Thanks,

Mark Sprenger

There is some controversy over how representative Alexa's user base is of typical Internet behavior. If http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.fortunehotels.in Alexa's user base is a fair statistical sample of the internet user population, Alexa's ranking should be quite accurate.