I have a tough time with major holidays like Easter. Say the Mass, do the eggs and candy with the kids, choke down some desiccated ham — then what? It would be a relief to run to the net to read, but, of course, everyone else is doing the same damn things — some more graciously than others. You crave new content, but there won’t be any new content until Monday.
The same goes for us, too, I expect. I have some numbers I may want to post about later, but I doubt that there will be a lot of other new stuff.
But: How about a lot of old stuff? Friday night I ran our stats, and Saturday Cathy built an Excel tool to combine them into something meaningful. Not canonically meaningful, mind you. What we can calculate are hard clicks on specific posts. Most people read BloodhoundBlog by RSS feed. Many more read from the front page, seeing some or all of the most-recent 15 posts at any given time. Hard clicks, clicks into specific posts, denote a special interest from feed readers, an off-site or on-site link, a desire to comment or to read comments, a Google search, etc.
What we end up with is a list of our 50 most popular posts as expressed by people who pulled the trigger on their mice. This is a reasonably reliable if not perfect measure of popularity. In any case, it’s what we have, so it will have to do.
Many of these posts were written by me. I write a lot, and I’ve been writing on BloodhoundBlog longer than anyone else. As you’ll see, many of these entries have enduring appeal, so our other contributors will account for more and more of our Top 50 as we go along.
Anyway, if you’re as bored as I am on Easter, divert yourself onto the paths of our past. Just remember, it’s not an escape from tedium, it’s professional development.
- Debunking Zillow.com . . . (15,416 clicks)
- 21 reasons to bank on the Phoenix real estate market . . . (4,067 clicks)
- Defending Zillow.com . . . (2,753 clicks)
- 2006 is the Year of Zillow: The 900 pound AVM has been upgraded to be a free listing platform and the presumptive national MLS system . . . (2,697 clicks)
- How to make Google your weblog’s best friend . . . (1,994 clicks)
- For real estate promotion, the business card form factor is a tiny little workhorse . . . (1,994 clicks)
- Securing the home-buyer’s place at the table: How two simple reforms can finally result in a full, uncompromised form of buyer representation . . . (1,778 clicks)
- The Millionaire Real Estate Agent (1,495 clicks)
- Keith at Housing Panic is for sale . . . (1,453 clicks)
- Is the Subprime Mortgage Market the next Enron? (1,335 clicks)
- Apprehending Realtor 2.0: Seven essential skills of the 21st century real estate agent . . . (1,234 clicks)
- How much commission should an agent charge? (1,224 clicks)
- What’s Wrong with zipRealty? (1,177 clicks)
- Who pays whom for real estate? Follow the money . . . (1,167 clicks)
- The Antisocial Personality (1,147 clicks)
- Who pays when “seller pays closing costs”? The buyer . . . (1,099 clicks)
- Why a flat fee for buyer representation? Because the money is in the meter drop . . . (892 clicks)
- In the 21st century world of real estate, nothing says ‘roadkill’ like a dead dinosaur . . . (888 clicks)
- Words, words, words: How evocative listing copy helps to sell homes . . . (839 clicks)
- Let’s go get sued . . . (801 clicks)
- Repeat after me: Mr. Realtor, what do you charge? (799 clicks)
- Furious fusillades of blistering BubbleHead flatulence: Foghorn Leghorn declares “WAR!” (789 clicks)
- Butterflies might be free, but home-buyers pay for real estate advice — whether they know it or not . . . (731 clicks)
- HARD MONEY: Life as a Legal Loan Shark (713 clicks)
- Twisted minds: Was BusinessWeek bamboozled by bubble-blogstress? (665 clicks)
- Pinocchio wept: The map is never the territory, so even a much, much better Zillow.com clone would not be able to evaluate real property . . . (659 clicks)
- Real estate photography snapshot: Choosing a camera . . . (652 clicks)
- Digital real estate photography: Which photographer? Which camera? (647 clicks)
- Carnival of Real Estate: The red meat . . . (636 clicks)
- Zillow.com versus Realtor.com: Nothing grows in the shade of great tree . . . (636 clicks)
- How much future is there in a job that millions of very smart people are willing to do for free? (634 clicks)
- Work the numbers: Redfin.com is not much of a business . . . (623 clicks)
- Planet Zillow.com: Burgeoning Realty.bot grows, potentially, to become a self-sustaining residential real estate eco-system (608 clicks)
- What IS Marketing Anyway? (606 clicks)
- Realty reality: If you want people to remember you, scream at them . . . (602 clicks)
- Foghorn Leghorn strikes out: What if they gave a war — and nothing happened . . . ? (595 clicks)
- Tell the world: Zillow.com is bunk . . . (593 clicks)
- Think globally, blog locally: If you want local leads from your real estate weblog, pursue local interests . . . (577 clicks)
- Redfin.com’s Real Estate Consumer’s Bill of Rights: A wolf in sheepskin clothing . . . (576 clicks)
- Blithering Bubbleheads lathered up into a dither . . . (565 clicks)
- BAD LOANS: Buried In The Back Of The BreadBox (560 clicks)
- “The seller paid my closing costs — with my money!” (537 clicks)
- Welcome to Race Piracy 2.0: Zillow.com is targetted for the crime of having deep pockets . . . (519 clicks)
- Ask the Broker: What compensation does a buyer’s agent have to disclose . . . ? (502 clicks)
- Real estate weblogging is a journey, not a destination . . . (493 clicks)
- If there is no Realtor monopoly — then what explains the commission structure? (489 clicks)
- Ask the Broker: Can I cancel my listing agreement . . . ? (487 clicks)
- Project City Center in Las Vegas: Now that’s a model home! (487 clicks)
- Is Windermere’s the best MLS map mash-up so far . . . ? (480 clicks)
- From forty links to infinity: Apprehending the full scope of the RE.net (470 clicks)
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Brian Brady says:
Happy Easter to all.
April 8, 2007 — 8:07 am