When I started RentVine 5 years ago I remember studying Hometownrent.com way back then. Hometownrent.com is unique to all other rental sites out there. Their strategy consist of not just having one website for all their national listings, but over 1,000 different smaller sites such as ChapelHillRent.com to display their listings.
I got to meet Andrew [...]

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While all the other rental sites that I track had amazing growth in Jan 2010, Rentedspaces.com took a giant hit in traffic.
Not sure why yet, perhaps it was from organic traffic or perhaps they reduced their AdWords spending. But wow what a nose dive when everyone else had big growth!
For me this is kind of [...]

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If you guessed Craigslist.com then you would be right according to Google and Twitter.

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Homeaway must be doing well to afford a Super Bowl commercial.

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I called up Realtor.com after I got the email above and asked if they had a working relationship with Realtor-outreach.com from India and they said no. I noticed that the URL was just purchased last week.
Is this some sort of scam being run out of India? The only reason they might want to write for [...]

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This graph says it all. Oh, I wish I had the power of AOL’s network behind my site!
From Compete.com, showing traffic stats.

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I got the email above this morning that I thought I would share. When I first started reading it I felt honored that someone would wnat to write a guest post for me.  But as I read on something didn’t feel right.
Why didn’t they use my name, like “Hi Dave” because my name and photo  [...]

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I ran across this funny video called “We Got That B-Roll” and I laughed so hard the first time I saw that I ended up watching it several times and it gave me an idea to copy the format of their video.  Makes me feel better to poke fun at the rental scammers while they [...]

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