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.=)
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.
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?
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".
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!
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!!!
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.
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
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.) -->
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.. :)
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
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 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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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This is great informatin to have, thank yu so very much