DRListings’ News

In an attempt simplify futher developement on DRlistings.com, we have decided to change the default charactor set of our web site. First, it makes the links directory render correctly i.e. without the strange charactors that were appearing for the foreign language as this tool is setup to work in UTF-8 by default. The new Dominican Republic News had this same requirement.
For the English reader, it doesn’t make much difference but for the Latin languages it does make a difference.
It was also required to simplify the use of the URL Rewriting that we are using now extensively.
From our clients point of view, it doesn’t make any difference also since it doesn’t involve any new particular attention when they edit their listings.
We may explain later, in french, how this was done and how easy it was to implement it. But the article will be submitted to Paul’s web space on MSN Space.
See ya!

Yes that’s it. We just released our brand new little cakes. Cabarate Real Estate and Sosúa Real Estate are just out of the oven and they’re HOT! Surely there is some more work and glazing to do on those little cakes but there released and the major search engines have been told of this fact as soon as it was possible. They have been submitted trough the Google sitemaps and Yahoo Site Explorer. Soon those web sites will get us and our clients some more targeted leads.

So finally we have made it! Yes everything is set up now for us to create some real estate web site with cross advertising on DRListings.com. The idea was simple but we had to work on it. There is some sample so you can look at it. There is the VIP Caribbean Property web site that we just created for one of our client that was interested by this brilliant idea. We are planning on using this same system for our other domain name like www.sosua-real-estate.com and www.cabarete-real-estate.com. Stay tuned.

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We have added a special section on our Real Estate web site for those who would be interested in having a Real Estate web site based on the Dominican Real Estate web site template that we can deliver. Just follow the preceding link to find more info about this new offer.

Have you ever wanted to know when and on which pages the search engine robots were crawling your web site? Ok, I see the old techy smiling :). Yes you can always dig down your log files, use some third party statistic web site. But why not doing it on your own? Try the following web application. We just installed it on DRListings.com. So, we now have a tool to figure out how the search engines are crawling our web site and how often they will crawl the same pages and some new pages. We hope it will help us optimize our web site to better serve our clients.
RobotStats: the Crawlers Tracker - Tracking Spiders Script