DRListings’ News

This Addon was created for Property Center a real estate agent in Sosua, Dominican Republic.

They have agreed with me to release this addon for free to the OR community and any person who is using OR for any kind of web site. The addon is licenced under the MPL, the GPL, and LPGL.

This addon is based on the work of the VTour URL addon create by Mick.

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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.

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As you may already know (if not, check this post and this one), when our clients are listing their property on our Dominican Real Estate web site - DRListing.com, their properties are shown also on one of 3 other real estate web sites depending where their property is located on the north coast.
Now, we have found something interesting to get even more exposure! We have found a preatty well made and smart property web site. It is called PropSmart. This web site enable anybody to list his properties for free and is well organized so that in just a few click of your mouse, you get to your location of interest.
For now, there is no properties from the Dominican Republic but, its just a matter of time! If you see what I mean

In the last few days we have made a lot of changes in the background and around our Dominican Real Estate listing Web site, DRListings.com.
We have released a new web site to show exclusively all the properties in Puerto Plata. http://www.silver-port-properties.com/. This new web site which still needs some work should help to get more exposure to our clients listing some properties in Puerto Plata.

I may talk about some of the other changes in an other post.

If you are in Dominican Republic and are experiencing some downtime on some specific URL, follow the following link for instructions on how to set up your internet connection so that it run faster or at least always at the same speed.

In short, you need to set your DNS server to use those two IP address: 200.88.127.23 and 200.88.127.22.
If you ever need help to set it up, send me an email and I will look at it with you.
Internet speed solution - Page 4 - DR1 Dominican Republic Forums

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!

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!

Hi everybody!
Today we started a new section on DRListings.com. We are working on a Dominican Republic news section for convenience to our viewers. We think that even though a viewer is or is not interested in buying or renting, he may be interested to know a little more about the Dominican Republic and maybe after gatering more info about this Paradise Island, he may change his mind and decide to look further about properties.
For now, the Dominican Republic news section is still in beta stage but you can have a look at it by following this link.
This section is based on the RSSLib tool available on the 2RSS.com web site.
If you have some good RSS feed to suggest, fill our feed suggestion form.

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.