About the Top 100

The Beginning

When we first put RealEstate ABC on the web, there was a company called hitbox.com that measured traffic and ranked sites in various categories. One of those categories was real estate. We felt this was a cool idea, so we decided to create a specialized real estate Top 100 and include various sub-categories.

realestatepros.org

Before we got our Top 100 programmed, another real estate site had a similar idea and beat us to the punch with a pretty decent program (which bummed us out). However, they only had one category and we felt we had something different to offer -- so we went ahead.

Other Top 100 Sites

Since then there have been LOTS of real estate sites initiate Top 100 programs.

Keep it simple..."KISS"

Location, name, web site address and a "hot" link is all we include in our Top 100. We felt that additional information often creates a reason NOT to click on the link. So we keep it simple.

How many have applied to join?

One thousand eight hundred seventy-nine have applied as of July, 2002. That really isn't a lot.

How many active members participate?

We constantly "cull" non-performing sites, some people don't know how to put up the HTML code and graphic, and some drop off when they go through a web site redesign or change web hosts and forget to carry along their Top 100 graphic. In all the categories together, we have just over 900 active current members.