DRListings’ News

Hi there, I’m proud to let you know (specificaly our clients - real estate agents and home owners) that in an attempt to get even more French and Spanish visitors, we added the possibility to enter a brief description in Spanish AND French!

It may seams little at first sight but, when our listings pages are rendered in Spanish or in French the interface was all translated except the brief description of all ten listings. This was making these pages mutlti-language. For SEO it was giving some strange results. From the visitor’s point of view it was not good enough from our point of view. People understand that our web site is primarily an English real estate web site. But since we want to give every visitor the same experience whether their English speaking or not, we had to add that feature.

If you want more info on how to use it efficiently, go to our contact page and ask for support. Our technicien will be glad to give you more information and advices on how to use that new feature.

Cheers!

On the 20th of July, we had a record number of visitors preceded and fallowed by a slowly raising and lowering amount of visitors because of the hurricane Dean. Especially on the 20th 81 visitors were looking for info about the hurricane passing close to the Dominican Republic on its south coast.

Since we fallow our statistics very closely, we were wondering why (more…)

I just found this little tool while looking for something else, as usual, and I wanted to share the information with all of you. It is called Google Analytics Manager. It is a Dreamweaver extention and it helps putting the tracking code in all the pages of a given site. And as a bonus, it’s free like the Google Analytics web application. If you want more info, se the PluginLab Product page.

Some search queries on Google trends.

First what’s the best “hôtel,maison,villa,condo,appartement”
maison,maisons
in English Hotel,Homes,House,Villa,apartment,Condo
house,houses

Second lets compare “appartement à louer,maison à vendre”.
apartment for rent,house for sale

Conclusion,

1. Avoid the plural form
2. More people are looking for house than apartment.
3. In English Homes is more or less the same as houses even though those words should not mean the same thing.

. . . to be continued.

Yesterday while trying to analyse the ranking of our web site for some particular keywords, I found something interesting. Did you know that the people from Irland are the ones that are searching the most for Hotels? According to Google Trends, it looks so. In fact, the keyword «Hotel» is used almost twice as much as the keyword «House» see these results.
Maybe thats why there is so many Online Hotel Booking web sites! Wow 121 000 000 results on Google.
I will now let you think about it!

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.

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