The Top 5 Web Sites for Real Estate in the Riviera Maya
Search Engine Saturation and Link Popularity Ratings Posted
There's a New #1 and a new kid on the Top 5 Block
by J.P. Money
There is a war on the net and as it becomes even more important for buyers and sellers to use this superhighway of info, there are going to be real estate companies fighting for a place in the sun. Now, here in the Riviera Maya everyone knows the sun is always out and it's super hot. And it's no different here on the Riviera Maya net scene and web masters who work in Palapas and under shade palms are doing the punch-up in this cyber jungle. Only this time there are no spears and human sacrafice. Or is there? Just kidding! The net is a big place and there is room for many players. We just wanted to see who was playing at the top of this net food chain and so we present to you the top dogs - the Top Five Real Estate sites in the Riviera Maya are....
Hold on, now first there problaby is not a definitive "best" web site as most web sites provide information on the Riviera Maya Real Estate Market that buyers can use in a collective fashion. However, we can efficiently rate the web sites in terms of exposure on the search engines. To do this, we used a 3rd party tool from Widexl.com that anyone can use. Here's what we found...
Bang the drum and sound the horns, there is a new winner in town folks. And we even have a new comer to the top 5 list. Envelope please!
1. MLS4RivieraMaya.com
Links 3924, Pages Indexed 3842, Total 7766
2. RivieraMayaRealEstateNews.com
Links 4287, Pages Indexed 3021, Total 7303
3. PlayaRealtyExecutives.com
Links 4390, Pages Indexed 750, Total 6171
4. RivieraMaya-RealEstate.com
Links 3706, Pages Indexed 336, Total 4042
5. OneStopMC.com
Links 2372, Pages Indexed 1100, Total 3472
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* (as of Feb. 11, 2007)
We rated each site in our test for LINK POPULARITY and SEARCH ENGINE SATURATION whereby the link popularity measures the number of links the site has on other sites and the searh engine saturation tests measures the number of pages that the top search engines have indexed and placed on their servers.
We gathered up the the numbers and added them up for total score signifing it's rating. We conducted the test on Sunday February 11th between 11am and 1pm CST.
For the Link Popularity Test, we omitted the links that are included within the domain of the site we are checking. This action eliminates self links so that we get a more accurate picture as to the real number of links that other sites post for the site in question.
For the test, we only used sites that predominately promote real estate in the Riviera Maya and not other locations. In other words, if the site just has posted some real estate in the Riviera Maya and mainly promoted other areas or even tours, news, and things in addition to real estate, they were not considered exclusive for Riviera Maya Real Estate and thus were not rated.
Widexl designed their link popularity tool for anyone to check link popularity from websites. The Link Popularity analysis script searches Google, AltaVista, MSN, HotBot, Lycos to determine how many pages are linking to the web page. Many search engines today are ranking web sites by the number of sites linking to them. Link Popularity analysis is also important for a high keyword search engines page ranking and PageRank. Take a link popularity analysis and check your link popularity against that from your competitors.
Search Engine Saturation refers to the number of pages from your website domain a search engine has indexed on the search engines.
