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Top Real Estate Blogs - August

Rank	Website	Index Change	Average
1	Curbed	+	2	23,005
2	Bigger Pockets	+	2	32,492
3	The Housing Bubble Blog	+	2	52,909
4	Bloodhound Blog	+	2	72,972
5	The Real Estate Bloggers	+	4	78,483
6	Sellsius Real Estate Marketing		0	78,819
7	Agent Genius	+	3	79,316
8	Phoenix Real Estate Guy	+	5	83,546
9	Zillow Blog	-	1	87,935
10	The Future of Real Estate Marketing	-	3	90,140
11	Trulia Blog	+	1	97,623
12	Raincity Guide	-	1	106,423
13	Housing Doom	+	5	111,106
14	Real Estate Radio USA	+	6	138,368
15	4Realz.net	+	1	151,290
16	GeekEstate Blog	-	2	152,850
17	Transparent Real Estate		0	154,376
18	St. Paul RE Blog	+	3	160,339
19	Mortgage Fraud Blog	+	3	165,092
20	Blown Mortgage	-	5	168,266
21	Altos Research Real Estate Insights	+	2	170,834
22	Lenderama	-	3	186,363
23	Long Beach Real Estate	+	2	190,711
24	Denver Real Estate & Relocation		0	261,381
25	REagent in CT	+	2	267,456
26	360 Digest		0	291,952
27	Miamism	+	7	293,107
28	Maxsell	+	14	318,583
29	Dothan Home Search	+	12	324,554
30	Sacramento Real Estate Voice	+	1	333,712
31	Seattle Condo Blog		0	346,685
32	Phoenix Area Real Estate Blog	+	13	354,523
33	Gary Bolen	+	28	363,986
34	Luxury Home Digest	-	6	364,125
35	Urbnlivn		0	408,837
36	REALCentralVA	-	3	413,535
37	San Diego Preview	-	8	425,495
38	Sandbars to Sunsets	-	8	428,661
39	Phoenix Real Estate	+	15	446,396
40	Arizona Real Estate Notebook	-	1	447,109
41	The Get Home Denver Team	+	17	452,788
42	The xBroker	-	10	457,678
43	Colorado Springs RE Connection	-	5	467,629
44	Real Estate Zebra	-	9	471,631
45	Real Crozet VA	+	27	473,704
46	Brian Brady	-	9	526,753
47	MLPodcast Blog	-	11	530,958
48	RealEstateSnippets.com	+	9	539,700
49	Mortgage Porter		0	550,848
50	House Blogger	-	3	570,359
51	Just New Listings		0	570,400
52	Mi Oakland County	-	12	597,725
53	Reno Realty	-	7	630,584
54	Lane Bailey		0	631,543
55	Jim Lee	+	8	644,572
56	My Tucson Blog	-	7	662,955
57	Foreclosure Truth		0	726,063
58	AnnArborRealEstateTalk.com	-	2	749,578
59	REI Blog	-	12	778,779
60	Realty Thoughts	-	10	892,413
61	Triple Mint	-	12	895,092
62	Virginia Real Estate News	-	8	900,243
63	NewHampshireMaineRealEstate.com	+	4	905,410
64	Real Estate Technology Coaching		0	925,822
65	Blue60	-	18	1,005,378
66	NYC Blog Estate		0	1,041,939
67	Maureen McCabe	-	5	1,080,956
68	New Hampshire Real Estate Blog		0	1,098,850
69	IndyRealEstateTalk.com	-	9	1,155,854
70	Focus on Crofton	-	19	1,219,760
71	HousingBubbleCasualty	-	5	1,223,262
72	San Mateo RE News	-	7	1,322,570
73	Maggie Dokic	-	31	1,379,001
74	Bryant Tutas	+	1	1,558,550
75	The Landlord Blog	-	5	1,616,784
76	Thesa Chambers	-	5	1,866,230
77	Marchel Peterson	-	3	1,914,026
78	Ryan Hukill	-	9	2,037,978
79	Foster City Blog	-	6	2,072,945
80	BlogCalabasas.com	-	13	2,292,942
	My Charlottesvile			*DNR
	Las Vegas Real Estate			*DNR
*	Does not rank. Blogs will be removed from list after two consecutive months of DNR designation.

Posted by Jonathan Washburn on 08/15/2008 05:53 PM

Comments (52)

top real estate blogs, august

Originally posted at: jonwashburn: Top Real Estate Blogs - August

52 Comments on Top Real Estate Blogs - August

AUG

2008

This is great informatin to have, thank yu so very much

Jon,

What does the plus and minus mean? or no plus or minus?

A little explanation would be nice. What do the numbers mean? What are the rankings based on? Where is ActiveRain?

Hate to sound like an idiot, but I don't get it. I am guessing this is google indexing, however, for who, for what?

How terrific to see some of the Active Rain members listed..like Bryant, Jim, Margaret, Maureen,Brian and whoever else I missed.

Thank you for sharing---this is why you are the success you are---your unselfish attitude--please don't change!

THis is great...I am from Reno/Sparks and have never seen the Reno Realty Blog. I would love to know what the plus and minus indexes are as well. One day you will see me on this list.=)

+ and - indicate whether they moved up or down in ranking from the previous time frame.

Very interesting to see who is at the top. Some day I want to be there

Hi Jonathan...Barry here...thanks for the mention of Real Estate Radio USA. I did not realize that you would be doing this again so soon and I forgot to submit our new local real estate blog.

The Fort Lauderdale Real Estate Blog was launched on April 28, 2008 and in just a few months, we would be in the 39th slot on your chart here. Not bad company!

Our combined score is 436,000. We have worked very hard to build the Fort Lauderdale Real Estate Blog and the utilization of Active Rain helped quite a bit in dribving traffic.

Look forward to seeing the Fort Lauderdale blog on the next update of your list.

Jonathan,

Well the way I see it. If you are on this list it is a good thing. The only thing counter-intuitive to me is the average numbers getting bigger as you go down the list.

I am just checking out all of the blogs and seeing what it takes to become successful.

I figure it does not hurt.

How does Activerain as a whole stand comparatively? Am I missing it or is this just independent blogs or team of bloggers?

Thank you for the information!

George

Thanks (again) Jonathan for putting this together.

All the "+/-" indicates the change since last months list. For example, my blog is at #8, with a +5. SO it went up 5 places from last month, when it was #13.

The number is an average of Compete and Alexa rankings.

This also explains why the numbers get bigger as you go down the list. Compete and Alexa rank wesites based on traffic (and do a very poor job of it according to most). So the sight with the highest traffic would have a Compete/Alexa ranking of 1. Less traffic = bigger number (since the site is further down the list.

These are indivdual blogs (well, and multi-author blogs) "outside" the rain. AR isn't on the list because it wouldn't be comparing anything similar to a blog hosted on it's own domain.

And no, it is NOWHERE near a comprehensive list. But it's a fun look at some great "outside blogs".

I was looking for something like this to help my non-blogging associates. Thanks for providing a short cut to some interesting resources! Aloha, Kelly

Woo hoo... I AM somebody. Thanks for putting the numbers together. I'm really excited to be on it.

Thanks for investing the time to put this together, Jonathan, even though I slipped by 19. Only thing I can figure out is that I was gone or almost six weeks, and without Internet access most of three weeks. I guess we'll know that's the reason if it improves next month!

Really amazing how much interest and activity there is when the market has been so crappy !

What does the +/- mean as well as the average? Intesting blogs

Thanks

Wow!!! I feel like it is Christmas!! Just to be able to learn from these blogs and bloggers - the books to read, the concepts to chew on, the chance to see what makes a blog incredibly successful. Many thanks Jonathan!!!

I am sorry Jonathan, I do not see what you are doing here. An explanation please on the source and number ratings you are displaying?

This is a very iteresting group of Blogs here.. thank you for sharing

"I am sorry Jonathan, I do not see what you are doing here. An explanation please on the source and number ratings you are displaying?"

"What does the +/- mean as well as the average?"

David / Richard - I explained it in the comments... posted 8/15 8:53pm

Thanks for the inclusion in your list Jon!

What is fun is finding the up and coming real estate blogs. Some great stuff is out there.

that's kinda interesting. See that we made the list, which makes us happy of course. do you put this out every month? This list is also helpful for us to better and quicker identify places where we want to go... and comment.

That last PR update did some damage...but I see some slow climbers at the same time. It's nice to see them all in one list

Congratulations Broker Bryant!

AUG

2008

How cool is that! I recognize a lot of these titles and feel fortunate to rub "shoulders" with these great bloggers. ;-)

First I want to congratulate all AR members on the list. You guys must be doing something right. And Jay, I want to thank your for the explanation. Without it, I would have been lost. AJ

Fun to see blogs I know on 'the list' - of course, I also can see why I am not on the list! :)

Thanks Jonathan,

Still can't figure out why Compete is not picking up my blog -- but we are 1,935,481 for Alexa... and our traffic according to Compete.com is higher then TheLandlordblog.com (currently #75 on the list above.) -->

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/lasvegasrealestate4u.com+thelandlordblog.com/?metric=uv

Hmmm... Compete says that we only had 801 visitors for July but my internal stats show over 2,000 for July... I've got to figure out how to play this game.. :)

Slipped 8 slots this month? Guess I gotta shift gears and start pedaling faster.

I find numbers like these quite interesting. I understand what they mean, but find it puzzling how the numbers get assigned. I have not been posting on my blog for awhile now and yet it moved up 4 spots. Cool for me, but puzzled by that. It will be interesting to see how it moves when I do get back to posting regularly again.

It's nice to see so many people I know on this list - congrats to all.
Ann

Interesting information---Just wish I had the time to read each and every one.

Jon, I'm surprised I'm even on there. I've not been blogging much lately. I guess this serves as the kick in the pants to get back to it!

Lots of great reading material I am an avid reader of about 10 of these. But there are quite a few in the top 20 that I have never stopped by. Thanks for the list and identifying some additional blog reading material for me.

Jon,

I think the list is really interesting but I REALLY hope that you'll answer the questions above. I was looking for answers as I read the comments.

Jon, I have neglected my outside blog, been so busy on localism the past few weeks. I need to do better, thanks for doing this, I always appreciate seeing it.

I am glad to see a lot of Activerainers moving up the blog list!

As I am beginning an outside blog, this is great information. I want to check out many of the blogs to get ideas of how to create mine the best I can. Thanks for compiling the list. I understand the + - randing but is there a link to check this ourselves and do you enter certain ones or these are all the top ones that come up but doing an overall search?

Loved seeing all the AR peeps on the list. Congrats to all of you blogging giants!

Hi Jonathan - nice list you have put together. I looks like there are quite a few AR all stars.

It is great so see so may familiar names showing up in the rankings! Good job!

Yikes!!! I best get busy with my outside blogging. Maybe my blog is too niche. Glad I made the list though.

This gets my competitive juices going! I just recently met the Indianapolis Blog person listed up there, she's my hero! I think the point of all of this is that it does matter that you blog consistently and use your titles, taglines, etc appropriately and to get the best bang for the buck. It's great to just be able to talk about real estate without paying a fee and watch your postioning improve.

I guess I better get my outside blog going. I just like AR too much!

This is very cool...I am impressed by the number of AR members on this list!!!! Yet one more goal to add to my list... get on this list. I don't know what BB is complaining about!

Wow! As Diane notes - a lot of AR memberss - some I've even referred to! The exposure is amazing.

Jonathan-

As always, thank you very much for inclusion in the list. I honestly can't fathom how it is I've soared past so many amazing bloggers. I'll have to double the pay I'm offering my family members...

It's also good to see that Mr. Dalton is back on the list after his domain change, not to mention how many AZ blogs are on the list.

AUG

2008

Love the obsession with bloging! Looks like I have a lo of reading to do. Started my first post this morning on my AR blog, I've got major work to do!

AUG

2008

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Accept my sincere thanks and appreciation

John ,

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AUG

2008

I clicked through to learn more about these successful blogs. I was surprised to see that some of them have broken links. I'm not talking about third party links in posts, I'm talking about basics. On one blog I clicked "Archive" and got a 404 "page not found" error. I wanted to send a private note to the owners to let them know, but the "Contact" link also returned a 404 error. It's great to celebrate success, but it's also important to periodically check for broken links. How is your blog going to generate leads if your contact page isn't working? More likely readers will take the snarky advice on the page (WordPress suffers from a bad case of faux hipsteritis) and "punt" because it's not their fault they ended up "totally in the wrong place."

Frank, you make such a great point - I have found my blog with temporary glitches here and there so my advice is to have contact information all over the place just in case. I have my number on the header and the left column, also the contact form and in a couple of other places. Glitches are common, you just hope they don't happen right when a customer is trying to reach you.

SEP

2008

Yippee!! Las Vegas Real Estate finally ranks on Compete.com making the average 1,440,751... Whew.. did not want to get delisted on the next update!

Thanks!

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