Archive for the ‘RentBits’ Category
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Compete.com says rentBits.com traffic has increased over 300% for the last 12 months. Last month, compete estimated rentBits unique visits to be around 166,000. Our internal numbers show our unique visitors are closer to 300,000 per month.
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
LevelOne recently did a study on the impact of social media and lead generation for the rental space. Methodology:LevelOne reviewed all properties within their data base that had a unique email and toll free number applied to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Guest Cards appointed to these sources were compared to all other ...
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
TechCrunch is the most popular start-up blog on earth. A simple mention of your product or service can increase your traffic dramatically over night. Recently, rentBits was mentioned in TechCrunch and since the post, our traffic is up over 25%.
A question I have been asked is, "how did you get ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
I just wrote a new post on the Rent Marketer Blog about MyNewPlace rolling out their integration with Facebook Connect. You can read it here. On this blog, we are also experimenting with Google Friend Connect. You can take a look at the right hand side of this blog and see the ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Roost.com, a real estate search engine of for sale properties, has raised another $8 Million in their second round. This brings the total amount invested in the company to $13.5 Million. Roost.com was released at about the same time as our rental search engine rentBits.com. According to Compete.com, rentBits traffic has been rising ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
rentBits, our free national rental search engine, has launched a redesign of the search results. We have incorporated feedback from users who asked for: More prominent advanced search features Visual of new ads that are in the system Ability to show just rental ads with picturesOur engineers have spent countless hours and lots ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
At rentBits we are constantly crawling the web actively looking for available rental properties. We have hit yet another milestone and have surpassed the 400,000 active rental property mark.
If you would like your site crawled, or if you want to supply us with a feed, please submit your ads here.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
We wanted to have a little fun with Ben Bernanke and release a collage of Ben Bernanke himself. We have matched together over 130 logos from Must Know Real Estate Sites and made an image of Ben Bernanke. You can view the entire Bernanke collage here.
If you see your ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Search is becoming much more vertical. Search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN do a horrendous job in vertical search. We are seeing many more vertical search engines hit the market. Sites like indeed.com, simplyhired.com, trulia.com, roost.com, rentbits.com and others. All of these sites are focusing on one thing and ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
We just launched a new average rental pricing widget:
This widget allows users to view average rental prices for up to 4 cities in a majority of the cities in the US.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
At rentBits, we aim to offer renters tools to find the perfect rental. We also take feedback to make our product better.
One request from renters and property managers was to add a tool where an average rental price could be seen for any city in the United States. With that ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
I was surfing on rentBits for houses for rent in Simi Valley, and started thinking back to my childhood. I spent my entire childhood in Simi Valley, playing baseball, going to school and graduating from Royal High School.
These memories made me sad in a good way. While searching for ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Being our first full week in search business, we wanted to share some of the top metro searches for the week of March 17th.
Top 10 Metro Searches
Houses for rent in Terre Haute, IN
Houses for rent in Pittsburgh, PA
Houses for rent in Reno, NV
Houses for rent in Overland Park, KS
Houses for ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Within 15 minutes, I added a Rental Timeline to rentBits.com using the the Google Gadget tool within Google Spreadsheets. I have no programming experience at all. In the past, this would have taken many programming hours.
Check it out. We will constantly be adding to the rental timeline. If you have ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
I have been messing around with Google Doc's new feature called Gadgets. Essentially you can take your data from a spreadsheet and automatically make a gadget.
For example, I wanted to see what the most expensive rental house in phoenix is within rentBits and display it in a widget.
As the data ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Our launch of rentBits.com yesterday was a huge success. We have been getting great press from SearchEngineWatch, CNET, ColoradoStartUps, TechRockies, Smart Money and others.
This morning, we got word that farmers or "Aliens" in Ohio have embraced rentBits. Below is a photo that was sent to us from Columbus, Ohio.
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I said in my previous post that we would launch tomorrow. Seems like the engineers got a little excited and released it early. We are very excited to announce the launch of rentBits, a vertical rental search engine.
Here is our press release that will go out tomorrow:
Denver, CO - rentBits.com ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Last week, we launched our new Rent Marketer design which has been a great success. Tomorrow, we will be launching a new product called rentBits. We have taken a lot of feedback from property managers, owners, and partner sites to develop a product that we feel will help streamline the ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
We will be launching rentBits.com within the coming weeks but we wanted to thank everyone who has been reading this blog. We have been experiencing massive traffic growth and we haven't even launched rentBits yet.
Compete.com data has us at 65,000 uniques per month. Quantcast.com data has us close to 30,000 ...
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