As expected as the renting season starts to cool off in the fall pretty much all the top rental sites dropped in traffic. Except for Tenant.com which had a large up swing.
So now we have two free sites in the top 5, House.info and Tenant.com. That is disappointing. I thought I was going to move up to the 5th spot after HomeRentalAds.com slipped off the charts. I have still not seen the numbers from Quantcast.com which I will update later.
I am guessing Tenant.com is picking up power because of the international work they do.
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I work for Apartments.com and read your bog on occasion (i like it). Just curious, why don’t you ever mention Apartments.com?
Andrea,
Thanks for stopping by.
Sorry I have explained this in previous stat posts but I forgot to included it in this one.
I only list my direct competitors, since your site specializes in apartments and not single family homes like mine I do not consider you a direct competitor.
However your sister site RentalHomesPlus is a direct competitor.
I received an email from them with more numbers.
http://rentbits.com/blog/?p=37
They are pretty aggressive internationally.
I can’t seem to find a city where they rank well, does anyone know how they are getting their traffic?
I know that each property listed is spidered alot and individual properties move up in the rankings vs a “city”.
I never see them in search results much…Taking a quick look at there code will tell alot to the trained eye as far as S.E.O. goes…
I think the site is very useful and layed out well.
Will Tenant.com become a “major” competitor in 2008?
I worry more about House.info than I do tenant.com.
I don’t know why?
House.info ranks so much better than tenant.com.
Will rank outdo usability and appeal of a website?
I don’t think so…..House.info may get more visitors to there site, But will the site keep them there?
That is the question in my mind when I compare the two websites. It is day and night when you compare them in that department.
We can spend thousands to get customers to our websites….but keeping them there is the hard part.
Rentvine is a perfect role model for user experience. I always work for a better user experience for my website.
You have created an A+ user experience from the front to the back with rentvine. That is a vital part that makes a website generate quality leads and be competitive!
Blush! Thanks for the kind words! I worked really hard to make it very clean and usable for people of all internet experience levels.
I just hope House.info keeps their site not so user friendly.
In the past couple of weeks I have seen a major up tick in people posting to my site, I can’t figure out if it is from my booth at NARPM or because Rentals.com is not ranking well because of their major screw up.
What happened to quantcast?
I guessing since Pitts didn’t use his real name, which is the case for most of my competitors – I am guessing that he wants to see the Quantcast numbers since he is doing better with them.
I am going to guess Pitts is from DC -perhaps HotPads?