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Top Real Estate Blogs - October

Rank	Website	Index Change	Rank
1	Curbed		0	12,256
2	Bigger Pockets		0	27,197
3	Bloodhound Blog		0	38,165
4	The Real Estate Bloggers		0	43,690
5	Agent Genius		0	49,838
6	Zillow Blog		0	51,553
7	The Housing Bubble Blog		0	56,601
8	Sellsius Real Estate Marketing		0	64,498
9	The Future of Real Estate Marketing		0	71,527
10	Housing Doom		0	75,933
11	Phoenix Real Estate Guy	+	1	78,700
12	Altos Research Real Estate Insights	-	1	79,070
13	Raincity Guide		0	81,398
14	GeekEstate Blog		0	87,904
15	Trulia Blog		0	90,655
16	Mortgage Fraud Blog		0	110,796
17	Blown Mortgage		0	114,099
18	4Realz.net		0	131,150
19	St. Paul RE Blog		0	134,348
20	Real Estate Radio USA		0	134,855
21	Miamism		0	135,487
22	Transparent Real Estate		0	139,822
23	Real Estate Zebra		0	172,809
24	Arizona Real Estate Notebook		0	175,281
25	RealBlogging		0	179,078
26	The xBroker	-	1	186,217
27	Buffalo/Niagara Real Estate Homes	-	1	195035
28	Denver Real Estate & Relocation	-	1	227,276
29	Sandbars to Sunsets	-	1	230,271
30	Foreclosure Truth	-	1	236,109
31	Seattle Condo Blog	-	1	236,960
32	Maxsell	-	1	239,571
33	360 Digest	-	1	251,548
34	Luxury Home Digest		0	255,520
35	Sacramento Real Estate Voice		0	257,089
36	MLPodcast Blog		0	262,257
37	Long Beach Real Estate		0	274,425
38	Urbnlivn		0	276,491
39	REagent in CT		0	291,413
40	Dothan Home Search		0	321,639
41	Phoenix Area Real Estate Blog		0	345,672
42	Virginia Real Estate News		0	351,218
43	Just New Listings		0	353,452
44	Lenderama		0	353,707
45	My Tucson Blog		0	354,226
46	The Get Home Denver Team		0	363,814
47	House Blogger		0	371,894
48	Colorado Springs RE Connection		0	388,880
49	Mortgage Porter		0	393,673
50	Focus on Crofton		0	401,542
51	IndyRealEstateTalk.com		0	404,072
52	HousingBubbleCasualty		0	412,318
53	Realty Thoughts		0	418,565
54	New Hampshire Real Estate Blog		0	428,720
55	Triple Mint		0	436,374
56	Maureen McCabe		0	440,779
57	NYC Blog Estate		0	441,461
58	Phoenix Real Estate		0	455,403
59	Real Estate Technology Coaching		0	458,709
60	Foster City Blog	+	1	488,938
61	Mi Oakland County	+	1	584,456
62	NewHampshireMaineRealEstate.com	+	1	598,688
63	Lane Bailey	+	1	609,667
64	Gary Bolen	+	1	619,391
65	AnnArborRealEstateTalk.com	+	1	687,809
66	Reno Realty	+	1	707,029
67	RealEstateSnippets.com	+	1	727,459
68	Jim Lee	+	2	753,052
69	San Diego Preview	+	2	815,078
70	RobinAshley.com	+	3	857,910
71	Las Vegas Real Estate	+	3	863,388
72	Marchel Peterson	+	3	893,801
73	Maggie Dokic	+	3	893,812
74	Real Crozet VA	+	3	918,942
75	Ryan Hukill	+	3	930,155
76	The Landlord Blog	+	3	952,839
77	San Mateo RE News	+	4	960,838
	REI Blog			DNR*
	Bryant Tutas			DNR*
	Thesa Chambers			DNR*
*	Does not rank. Blogs will be removed from list after two consecutive months of DNR designation.

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Posted by Jon Washburn on 10/18/2008 12:06 PM

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35 Comments on Top Real Estate Blogs - October

OCT

2008

Jon,

I think our Clean Slate Blog for Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate deserves some consideration as we rank in the Top 40 (Technoratti-261,148) and apparently are the ONLY major Real Estate Brokerage Franchisor on this list.

Not bad for a 3 month old brand!

Jon, thanks again for this, why isn't AR on this? Glad to see I moved up a few spaces. Now can you go to Bill Gasset's blog and answer the re-blog question, we are all waiting for your explanation. Thanks!

Jon, interesting that there's not a whole lot of movement one way or the other this month. Glad to still be on the list.

What do the numbers represent? Would you check to see if my ReesesPiecesOfRealEstate.com blog qualifies? Thanks.

Thanks once againa Jonathan for compiling this list. If I might offer a suggestion, you may want to include a little verbiage on what the numbers mean as that is asked every month -- it might help people understand better.

Missy - AR isn't on the list because this is a list of individual (and mulit-author) blogs, not blog networks. That's why RealTown or Realtor.com isn't here either. It is pretty much impossible for one stand alone blog to compete with a network that has tens of thousands of users.

The number in the far right column looks like the blogs Compete.com monthly visitor ranking (lower is better -- the #1 Compete site would have the most monthly visitors). For example, the 12,156 rank for Curbed.com means Compete.com thinks that Curbed is the 12,156th most visited site on the internet (whic given the number of websites, is pretty dang impressive!)

Elaine - your current Compete rank is 730,250 - which would put you at #68.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ReesesPiecesOfRealEstate.com/?metric=uv

This brings up another point about this list - it does not look at all real estate blogs. Jonathan has been great at manually adding them when he knows about them. I don't know where the guy finds the time to compile this list every month....

That's quite a list. I am still confused how this all works, will need to spend some time figuring it out.

Thanks

I REALLY want to break the top 50... I mean I really do... Who do I have to pay.

If Lane would pay me I would pray really hard for him to get into the top 50. Looks like quite a list thanks for putting it together.

I just checked my data on Compete.com and it doesn't match the blog stats that WordPress provides. Per WP, my traffic is 3-4 times higher than what Compete shows. The primary keywords don't match either. Do others find this discrepancy?

OCT

2008

Elaine - every site like Compete calculates visits differently. They use formulas based on stats compiled from Compete members, it's not going to be precise. I have four different traffic analysis systems installed on my blog, and none of them report the same number.

Sites like Alexa and Compete that use numbers based off limited users are notoriously inaccurate. They show my traffic at about 40% lower than Google Analytics and other "traffic meters" I have installed. From what I've read, the lower the traffic, the less accurate that Compete is (though for me, they are closer than Alexa).

It's also important to compare the same metric. In other words, make sure you're comparing unique visits, not just total visits, between the two.

Bottom line is, no system that estiamtes your traffic like Compete does will never be as accurate as a system actually installed on your site.

Jon - I appreciate you putting together this list/rank every month. Are you using the numbers from the compete tool bar? I noticed the tool bar is not showing the same rank that comes up when looking up the sites on Compete.com. Your September and October figures are nearly identical, but would reflect more movement using rank from Compete.com rather than the tool bar.

Wow - Jon - them's some impressive numbers! It really makes a strong statement of how powerful blogging really is!

OK if I sorta understand what Jay and Ben are saying, does Compete and Alexa only record visits for people that have the toolbar from those sites installed? If so, that's would seem to miss "ordinary" people. Also, why the focus on unique visitors? I'm in the business to attract and sell real estate, so ordinary people are important to me and while unique visitors (no cookie) are critical, those people with the cookies still installed, are representative of the stickiness, so having them come back to visit is VERY important. Those are the people that can turn into clients. Am I wrong in my assumptions of how this works?

Wow .. this is a great list, thanks! pippa

Jonathan, Thanks for the great list - although I have heard of some of these, I am unfamiliar with a large number of them. I will take some time to check them out. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for this information . . . something to work towards!

Great examples of what we should be modeling our blogs around. Thanks for the list.

Jared

www.jared.pro

Well that's an interesting list, I've not seen anyone do that before. Thanks.

Jonathan, I too was curious about the general Active Rain ranking.

Thank you - I will go look at some to see what a good blog is supposed to look like!

Jon - Beyond just being a big stats geek... I love the list to expand my reading horizons! I'm sure that there is a lot of work that goes into this!

Interesting that there is almost no movement in the top 25. Apparently blogs are much more stable than college football.

Thanks for compilingthe list. It's a great opportunity to just check out the top listed blogs and what type of content they have.

Keep up the great work!

Scott

OCT

2008

Some top notch blogs once again. Certainly a list someone can strive for to be on. Thanks for sharing this with us John!

Do you do this every month? WOW lots of reading material - Of to read the top 10...

Jonathan

Thanks for your time in spreading the good word to fellow AR members. You could literally spend all day becoming a part of each heavy hitting blog or social network to rank high on search engines. The best idea that someone here on AR wrote about is to pick sites that work best for your profession and personal style, make sure they are heavily visited, commit to these sites, work them and you will start to see your business grow due to the exposure you will get on search engines. As always content is king.

Thanks again for your post.

Peter Vekselman

My raincityhouses.com Seattle suburbs blog has a rank around 455,000 on Technorati...

Thanks so much for all your efforts in compiling this list...which is a great resource not only to see "rank" but for reading as well.

I sure recognize a few on that list. Active Rain has sure been a force.

OCT

2008

Jonathan, this is the first time I've looked at the list. It did seem a little confusing at first. Jay and Bens' comments to Reese helped explain it. And I just worried about points. LOL

Thanks for the list. I see that we're close to the top and I want to thank our fantastic contributors for their efforts that have allowed us to be there. That said, we're always looking for new contributors to add to the blog. If you're interested, swing by and let me know you'd like to be a part of something great!

Best,

Joshua Dorkin - BiggerPockets.com Blog

http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/

NOV

2008

Jon, Interesting. Next time you post the list give us a little background in the determining factors for the list. I notice #1 curbed is mostly NY and LA. I haven't gone through the whole lest yet but, am planning on working through it.

NOV

2008

What about "Expert Real Estate Advice"? :)

JAN

2009

Just curious, Jonathan... In all your spare time, did you do one of these for November?

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