Top Real Estate Blogs - August

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.

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!

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!

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.

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!