Everything to do with using your own website to advertise your rental property. Design, usability, hosting, getting listed on the search engines, optimising your site, pay-per-click, etc, etc.
gh
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by gh » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:39 pm
Found this site- independentowners.com/home.html
which says you can list for free and will help with getting your web site up and running.
Anyone know of them? Can it really be free?
Interested to know what others think. Bit sceptical.......
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by mpprh » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:18 pm
Hi
never heard of them. But they are google page rank 5, so ought to be taken seriously ?
Peter
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by gh » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:29 pm
Cheers Peter, value your reply.
Sceptical in as much as in 'free' doesn't exsist. There must be a catch surely.
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by Lesblancs » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:11 pm
I could not actually find any holiday properties listed for France.
Are they that new, or am I doing something wrong?
Robert
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by Mountain Goat » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:23 pm
At a very quick glance it looks good, and innovative.
Their blurb says they are supported by their sponsors:
independentowners.com/whyisitfree.html
but I don't see how or where their sponsors appear.
I was impressed.
MGoat
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by Guest3 » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:05 pm
MG said
but I don't see how or where their sponsors appear
Ditto that...just curious though.....(not that it matters, as it is a free site and has a Google rating of 5!)
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by oskar » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:55 pm
Bear in mind that Page Rank in itself is meaningless. It´s a website´s position in serps which counts, and there are many factors which determine this. With only 2 inbound links, this website won´t appear anywhere near the first few pages for important search terms. A waste of your valuable time I feel.
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by Mountain Goat » Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:19 am
oskar
True, but it's early days for them, there's only a handful of listings.
I do feel this one is something different - I haven't seen a free site with so many extras.
I've sent a few questions to them, so will be interesting to see how long they take to reply.
MGoat
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by CostaBlanca » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:07 am
The site looks good and great for anyone not having the skills required to set up their own website. Where is the catch?
Anyone brave enough to register yet?
Maria
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by Paul Carmel » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:13 am
Yep me............but they have no drop down for Corsica yet, It was very easy to do, we shall see.
Cheers
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by CostaBlanca » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:20 pm
Thanks, Paul. So haven´t been able to set up your webpage yet?
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by Paul Carmel » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:23 pm
Sorry Maria,
Do you mean my own site? or this new one.
Cheers
PC
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by oskar » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:30 pm
True, but it's early days for them, there's only a handful of listings.
2 inbound links since Jun 2005????
They´re going nowhere fast!
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by CostaBlanca » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:56 pm
Paul Carmel wrote: Sorry Maria,
Do you mean my own site? or this new one.
Yes, I meant on Independent owners site. Let us know the link when it is completed.
Cheers,
Maria
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by Paul Carmel » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:10 pm
Will do.
Cheers
PC