After less than 15 months in business, Eye has risen up the rankings in terms of traffic.
In the independent Alexa.com “league table” of websites throughout the world, Eye came in at 220,130th most visited site in the world on January 1. Estate Agent Today was the 208,695th most visited.
However, when we looked yesterday, we are now the 165,578th most visited website in the world, compared with Estate Agent Today which has now fallen to 249,457 according to Alexa.
Of course, nice as it is to dream, we don’t think we will ever quite topple Google, Facebook and YouTube, which come in at numbers one, two and three.
Nor do we think we will quite catch Rightmove in an impressive 759th place.
We are also a long way behind Zoopla in 1,934th place, Primelocation in 11,201th place and OnTheMarket which comes in at 19,892.
Property Tribes and Nethouseprices are also ahead of us but we’re not too upset, as Property Tribes’ Vanessa Warwick is a valued Eye specialist contributor and Eye shares a director with Nethouseprices in John Brassington.
Separately, new data from Propertyflock, a software company specialising in social media for agents, has put Eye in fifth place in its own league table.
Propertyflock created the list of most shared news sources for property by analysing 4,500 Twitter handles, collectively associated with 13,000 agency branches across the country, over the month of April 2015.
The top five most tweeted domains for property stories according to Propertyflock are:
- Telegraph
- BBC
- YouTube
- Estate Agent Networking (EAN)
- Property Industry Eye
So a very big ‘thank you’ to those agents who retweet our stories – we are very grateful.
Meanwhile, here is a list we have taken from Alexa’s league table in terms of traffic in so far as it relates to property publishing websites – with apologies for any omissions.
Rightmove = 759th
Zoopla = 1,934
Primelocation = 11,201
OnTheMarket = 19,892
Nethouseprices = 77,137
Propertytribes = 104,272
Eye = 165,578
EAT = 249,457
LAT = 403,695
Propertytalklive = 2,718,889
Property Drum = 3,530,518
EAN = 8,406,466
Comments (7)
Simon Shinerock states above: “…the Angels sites have lterally just undergone a major upgrade creating a true resource centre/one stop shop for estate agents who want to increase and improve their businesses as well as providing a true B2B B2C environment in which agents and their customers can interact.”
SHOULD read “the Angels sites have recently been bu99ered round with for the umpteenth time which has driven away the vast majority of its’ historic membership and replaced them in the main with syncophantic head-nodders who some would think are simply characters made up on the spot by the editorial team.”
Ignore the B2Anything bit – self-promoting ******** of the brownest, stickiest sort. He really should have been charged Card Rate for such a brash advert – although it is obvious that Ros, being the charitable sort she is, probably wouldn’t want to kick a knackered nag when it’s down…
Well, You guys are number 1 for me, no point in any other site you cover it all.
As for that lot at EAT i cant stand the layout or many of the contributors, Also sounds like some sour grapes from Simon. Care to explain the 100 views on every story as it is uploaded? fudging the figures…..naughty.
Thanks for mentioning PropertyTribes.com Ros.
I am especially proud of the ranking of the site as we have built our massive landlord eyeballs with a ZERO marketing spend. No google ad words, no SEO, no PPC, no traditional marketing of any kind. We have used free social interaction strategies that we have developed ourselves over the 6 years of building Property Tribes.
It is my personal belief that the next 18 months to 2 years are going to be an “eyeball grab”. Those that do not grab eyeballs will find themselves left out in the wilderness and will have to pay a lot of money to leverage other people’s eyeballs!
I urge all property businesses to focus on getting eyeballs in the next two years to future-proof their businesses, not to mention that valuations of businesses now include the extent of the google “foot print”.
I have written a post on Property Tribes which explains how to build massive eyeballs with minimum effort and time:
http://www.propertytribes.com/top-social-media-sites-that-property-professionals-should-t-9964.html
I hope EYE readers find it helpful.
Finally, it is my belief that the most successful sites on the web will be the ones that simplify everything. Think of google’s home page, you cannot get more simple than that!
At Property Tribes we are currently re-designing our user interface to create a revolutionary way for landlords to interact on the web. Less is more in our book and our new look will reflect that.
People are exposed to more information than ever before in the history of human kind and it is our belief that they will migrate to the sites that curate the best quality of information and offer a simple interface to find what they are looking for quickly and efficiently.
Google themselves say that soon people will be by-passing google and going straight to the domain expertise sites that dominate the eyeballs.
The time to grab your eyeballs is NOW!
BLIMEY…! Such a load of (eye)balls to digest there. I never realised that (eye)balls would provide so much discussion material.
Well Done Ros! For the sake of fairness three things should be noted, firstly Angels Media’s visitors come from a combination of titles covering agents landlords and investors, so looking at two on their own and missing out others is a little misleading. If you want to do a straight comparison that can be arranged! Secondly, considering you were the news side of EAT it’s brilliant how well their news figures have held up, especially when you take out the effect of your support for OTM. Finally the Angels sites have lterally just undergone a major upgrade creating a true resource centre/one stop shop for estate agents who want to increase and improve their businesses as well as providing a true B2B B2C environment in which agents and their customers can interact. Plus all these changes are only the start, a platform from which some really interesting things are soon to emerge. Well done though, you are a great property journalist.
Mr Shinerock.
Removing the unjustified plugs for your now woeful excuse of a website empire, we read the following:
“Well done, Ros… For the sake of fairness… you are a great property journalist”
The rest is a mixture of sour grapes and reminiscing how great EAT was before the walls crumbled.
There you go – I’ve even ‘Disliked’ the comment for you.
Always a pleasure… never a chore!