UPDATE: Click here for the “up to date” version of the “top 100 Real Estate Blogs”.
The idea to compile such a list was born a few months ago. Just as other similar top lists where appearing. After talking to Mark from 45n5– who is an outstanding programmer and internet marketer, a decision was made to bring the idea to fruition. Mark was in charge of programing the list, while my job was to find the blogs to be placed in the list- an easy job I should say for a former real estate agent.
So I present you today with GeerRealtors Top 100 Real Estate Blogs. It is a must bookmark page for many reasons. Not only will you be able to see who is who among real estate bloggers. You can also see the latest posts from the blogs featured on the list. If you are on the list this will give you an opportunity to see how your blog compares to your colleagues and/or competitors. Visit those blogs and see what are they doing that makes them more popular than yours.
If you visit the list, you will notice that there are actually more than 100 blogs.This means that you also can submit your blog, and then work your way to the top. If I have missed your blog feel free to submit your blog, and depending to the rankings elsewhere (Google Page Rank, Alexa Rankings, Technorati Rank) you may very well end up in the top 100. If not, you have some work to do.
The list will be updated once a week, so if you see N/A next to your blog, it means it was added after the last update. Just bookmark the Top 100 Real Estate Blogs and come to look at it one week from now. Finally I hope the list itself will bring you a visitor or two.
And now, without further ado, I present you with the first edition of Top 100 Real Estate Blogs:
Real Estate Blogs Top 100
GR Rank*
* GeekReltors Rank
Glenn,
Your blog was in my Google reader. It made in with the first 40+ blogs. However you might need to step up your efforts 😉 since the list is growing fast and will be changing dramatically.
Thanks for stopping by!
I actually found this post today – a little late. But was surprised to find my blog making it into the top 100. Hard to believe it! Have to be happy with some recognition.
Glenn,
Your blog was in my Google reader. It made in with the first 40+ blogs. However you might need to step up your efforts 😉 since the list is growing fast and will be changing dramatically.
Thanks for stopping by!
You are most welcomed Sara.
Hopefully you will get an extra visitor or two.
I’m honored to be included. Thanks for reading
You are most welcomed Sara.
Hopefully you will get an extra visitor or two.
Nice list. Glad to see we made it, along with 15 of our Tomato Blogging Graduates. Looks like we’ve got a formula for success.
Jim,
You definitely have the formula for success! I believe that formula is used on several blog 😉
Good luck. Hopefully the list will bring you a visitor or two.
Jim,
You definitely have the formula for success! I believe that formula is used on several blog 😉
Good luck. Hopefully the list will bring you a visitor or two.
Interesting Blog and a Cool List – Thanks I am proud to be on it! There is nothing like blogging to get the word out about your local real estate market, neighborhoods and your lisitngs
Debbie,
Thanks for stopping by. With the most recent update your blog ended up in the “up and coming” group of blogs. For some reason the Alexa rankings are 11,000,000+ for your blog…. I am sure you will be back in top 100 with next update.
I love your blog. Keep up the good work!
Interesting Blog and a Cool List – Thanks I am proud to be on it! There is nothing like blogging to get the word out about your local real estate market, neighborhoods and your lisitngs
Debbie,
Thanks for stopping by. With the most recent update your blog ended up in the “up and coming” group of blogs. For some reason the Alexa rankings are 11,000,000+ for your blog…. I am sure you will be back in top 100 with next update.
I love your blog. Keep up the good work!
Would love to be considered in the future – our blog is now a PR5 and gets strong traffic. Thanks for the list.
Cyndee,
Thanks for stopping by. I have added your blog to the top 100 list. It should be on the list after the regular update Tuesday or Wednesday this week. Good luck. 😉
Would love to be considered in the future – our blog is now a PR5 and gets strong traffic. Thanks for the list.
Cyndee,
Thanks for stopping by. I have added your blog to the top 100 list. It should be on the list after the regular update Tuesday or Wednesday this week. Good luck. 😉
Vlad – thanks for the consideration – appreciate it!
Vlad – thanks for the consideration – appreciate it!
Vlad,
I don’t know if you have read this article:
http://activerain.com/blogsview/172884/The-Problem-With-Alexa
As much as I love being showcased in the top 15 (#14) for you list, I feel that your ranking system is flawed by even including Alexa. Alexa at one time had some value (albeit simply for being extra-ordinary) but recently, their ranking systems are simply unreliable and weak.
I know your effort is to simply rank sites according to some uniform and subjective measure, but unfortunately, the method chosen falls short.
Objective Inbound link counts, objective inbound blog link counts, objective inbound traffic and objective time spent on site would be a fantastic measure of rank, but unfortunately you aren’t going to achieve this with the tools you are using.
Hi Jim,
Alexa is only on of three factors we rank the blogs.
Hi Jim,
Alexa is only on of three factors we rank the blogs.
Vlad,
I see that. My only point was that by including Alexa as a factor at all, you are unable to get any precise result whatsoever.
I love the idea of a ranking system for RE industry blogs, but there is a huge challenge: objective data. By using faulty data to rank anything, even if it is only 1 of 3 factors, it immediately negates the effort.
Sorry.
Vlad,
I see that. My only point was that by including Alexa as a factor at all, you are unable to get any precise result whatsoever.
I love the idea of a ranking system for RE industry blogs, but there is a huge challenge: objective data. By using faulty data to rank anything, even if it is only 1 of 3 factors, it immediately negates the effort.
Sorry.
Jim,
Our list has it’s flaws. There some huge chunks of Technorati data missing- at least for some of the blogs. However I think that top 25 blogs are pretty much on target.
Then I probably missed many blogs. So where do you think our blog would square if the data was more reliable?
There are no 3rd party objective measures of traffic, inbound links, etc that are accurate.
Technorati is broken. Yahoo site explorer misses tons of sites.
The list takes the best there is and tries to make the best of it.
As for alexa specifically, it is an objective third party and may not meet your liking for actual raw traffic count they still are a good for seeing trends with website traffic so it does provide value.
There are no objective third party data sources are there? Do you have a solution or just pointing out you don’t like things?
Vlad’s list is the “best there is” at the moment 😉
(disclaimer, I programmed the list)
I do like the idea, and I love being included, and quite favorably as well… but the list being based on faulty data just seems awkward. Not trying to be a smarty pants nor a party pooper… just want those included to realize that this data is flawed and should probably not be taken too literally.
You are right – for now, there is no objective measure by which we can all be compared, at least not on the levels you are aiming for.
If everyone used the same traffic gauge, and it was evenly flawed across all platforms, then at least we would all be measured equally. Alexa is not such a tool. Something like Google Analytics, Site meter or even the BlogTopSites (BlogFlux) javascript added to all sites would give an objective measure of traffic and comparison.
Google PR is hailed as the element of measure for weight in the SE’s and can be considered somewhat objective, but there is a huge difference between a PR5 and a PR5. What I mean is, you can be a 5.9 or a 5.1 and yet still appear as a PR5… when they are entirely different values.
Inbound link counts are crazily measured as well.
Google claims about 10% of Yahoo’s numbers.
And what about sites that have inbound links to multiple domains all pointing to the same place? If you add up all links to the combinations of URLs I have pointing to RET, Yahoo’s inbound link count is around 100k. But, if you take just my main domain, it’s more like 70k.
So what I think I am getting at is, why have a list at all if it is going to be impossible to be objective? Kind of hard to make any sort of ranking claim when the data is fishy.
“Google PR is hailed as the element of measure for weight in the SE’s and can be considered somewhat objective”
That is very wrong. My most highly trafficked site has a gray bar, pr 0. Lower pr pages outrank higher pr pages all day long. do a search.
“So what I think I am getting at is, why have a list at all if it is going to be impossible to be objective?”
wow you sure are a real downer.
Why have pagerank or technorti or alexa or feedburner counts or anything in the first place if they aren’t 100% accurate? Which none of them are.
You make the best of what you got 😉
Also, it could be argued that because the top100 real estate weights the three with a formula it is more accurate than any single one of the metrics above.
😉
Mark,
Thanks for stopping by and clarifying things yet again. We can always add a 10 star voting widget, that should level things a little. 😉
What do you think?
Jocking aside, I think our list is much more objective that the on at BlogFlux and other similar lists.
When it comes to Google PR I completely agree with you, I have a blog with a gray bar however it is outranking many blogs with PR4 and PR5.
Mark,
Thanks for stopping by and clarifying things yet again. We can always add a 10 star voting widget, that should level things a little. 😉
What do you think?
Jocking aside, I think our list is much more objective that the on at BlogFlux and other similar lists.
When it comes to Google PR I completely agree with you, I have a blog with a gray bar however it is outranking many blogs with PR4 and PR5.
45n5-
PR is a measure of “weight” (as I wrote). I never stated that it was a measure of rank in the SERPs as you infer. For more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagerank
Don’t mean to be a downer… this list has to be ‘for fun’ after all, given that the data can’t honestly be relied upon as fact.
RE: “Also, it could be argued that because the top100 real estate weights the three with a formula it is more accurate than any single one of the metrics above.”
Are you saying that 3 wrongs make a right? I thought that was 3 lefts.
Not looking for an arm wrestle, I just think that since you agree that there exists a flaw in the data used to calculate the results, that there should at a minimum be a clear disclaimer that says so.
Again, I enjoy this idea. I think it is neat. But it’s hardly objective, no matter how we spin it.
“PR is a measure of “weight” (as I wrote). I never stated that it was a measure of rank in the SERPs as you infer. For more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagerank”
Did you read the link you sent?
it’s the “weight” of a page shown in Google Search Results:
Quote from wikipedia: “In Google’s other search services (such as its primary Web search) PageRank is used to weight the relevance scores of pages shown in search results.”
“Again, I enjoy this idea. I think it is neat. But it’s hardly objective, no matter how we spin it.”
It takes the 3 most objective measures on the web to rank the websites. If you have a better solution for ranking sites then share it 😉
Until then, enjoy!
Ok – so I made and ass of me by ass-uming that wikipedia could speak for me…
Pagerank as I was using it, and intended it to be used was in this sense:
“PageRank is based on but the amount of incoming links, references from important ( other high PageRank ) web sites, and the level of a page indicated by the internal navigation of a web site.”
All of which has nothing to do with “rank” in the SERPs, as I was saying… which is the “weight” I was referring to, and that which is commonly understood.
Mostly objective is like being kind of pregnant. You either are, or you aren’t. The question becomes, if you don’t have a truly objective way of measuring something, then should you claim to be able to measure it at all?
Just because there is no (obviously) better way to measure something doesn’t make it any closer to true.
So for now… we’ll just have to take it for what it’s worth, even if Alexa has no idea of how much traffic sites are actually receiving.
Good job on it so far. I’ll check back to see how it improves.
Jim,
It’s all good. Some time ago I read some where that technology blogs have better Alexa rankings because supposedly more geeks visiting those websites would have Alexa toolbar installed. Now that I have an opportunity to compare it to another “industry” if you wish, I find that statement not to be true. So if anything Alexa is pretty much “inconsistent” with just about any website.
Thanks for contributing to the conversation. Nice to have you around.
Vlad,
It is all good. And it’s a joy to be here. Thanks for the hospitality. No looking to wear out a welcome.
I’m sorry… back again. I just can’t resist it seems.
About the inclusion of Alexa as an element of your measurement. It just seems so irrelevant. Does anyone even still install the Alexa toolbar (which only works in IE by the way)?
The crazy thing about the stats they present is that they are an estimation based on data they have collected from users of their installed toolbar. If this isn’t the most unreliable sampling of data to make a measure of a site’s actual ranking, then I don’t know what is.
It’s like polling less than 1% of users to get a sense of what the truth is. This can’t be something one would consider objective.
Jim, you are a downer and a persistent one.
Once again have the option to provide a better solution with a comment. the only thing you seem to provide is negativity here? What gives?
btw, Alexa provides a firefox toolbar, I have it installed now.