High Rankings

AgentRank™ profiles continue their expansion. Earlier this morning, I added a listing of weblog publications to an agent’s profile. I’ll follow up with Technorati stats for each weblog later next week.

The best part, however, is that each weblog listing has a backlink to your weblog without a “nofollow”. If you’re as SEO obsessed as most agents, you know that means these links are primed for search engine spiders and deliver link “juice” to your blogs!

Similar to Drew’s call for a Virtual Housing Stock Market game, but based on “drafting” real estate agents rather than “trading” houses. How it might work:

1. Start a new “season” on the first day of each quarter.
2. Using AgentRank API’s ‘profiles’ resource, players browse agent profiles and “draft” a sales team consisting of no more than 10 real estate agents.
3. Scoring is based on home sales and can be determined using AgentRank API’s ’sales’ resource. A player is credited points when an agent on the player’s team closes a sale during the quarter.
4. Players can “hire” and “fire” agents throughout the season.
5. Maintain leader boards in each metro area for player teams.
6. End the season on the last day of each quarter and tally the “gross” sales for player teams to determine a winner.

Maybe a good candidate for the Facebook Developer Platform? Again, if you have the programming skills and want to take a shot at it, lemme know and I’ll personally help you get it going.

I appreciate simplicity in web design. And no one does simplicity better than SimpleWeather. SimpleWeather is a single-page snapshot of today’s weather plus an extended five-day forecast. SimpleWeather is an underdog considering the incumbent, Weather.com, but both my wife and I prefer SimpleWeather because it loads fast—only a single banner ad—and it’s easy to understand.

I’d like to see the same simplicity for real estate. Just like weather, the real estate space has its incumbents, too. But if done right, a simple view of local real estate could draw a crowd. I imagine entering my ZIP code and quickly seeing a single-page “cheat sheet” containing:

• Price-per-square-foot charting
• Plotting of median sale price forecasts
• Reviews of the agents selling in my area

Our AgentRank API provides all the necessary data to make this happen—sales history, market forecasts, and agent reviews. If you have the programming skills and want to take a shot at it, lemme know and I’ll personally help you get it going.

One of the biggest components of AgentRank™ is an agent’s sales history. And one of the biggest complaints I receive from agents is how tedious reporting individual sale transactions can be. So, I’m thrilled to announce agents can now easily upload multiple sale transactions from a common-delimited file.

And remember, agents, quality sale transactions can not only boost your placement in AgentRank.com search results, but they also act as virtual ’sold’ signs on any website that uses AgentRank.com’s open API.