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New Real Estate Search Engine - Add Your Site Free

By Kay Frenzer-Zeeh

Services for Real Estate Pros with Buzz Marketing Pros

February 28, 2008 02:55 AM

dothomes.com real estate search engine This is a nicely done free real estate search engine that you may want to submit your site to. I couldn't figure out how to do so, however, so I emailed them, and this was the response:

Thanks for getting in touch.
If you have a feed in XML format (like Google Base or Trulia format) then simply make it available for us to download at some URL. This is the fastest way to go live.
Alternatively, we'll crawl your site as soon as we can. However, given the overwhelming response we've had already, we're forced to crawl agents & brokers in order of the number of listings they have, so it may take quite a while.
Please note that we only accept listings for which you are the listing agent or broker. Listing with us is free, and advertising to the right of search results costs $95 USD per month per state.
Let me know if you need more information.
Kind Regards,
--
Artemi Krymski
a@byteplay.com

Apparently you must email Artemi with the URL or feed of your site. Even it it takes a long time, it would be worth it to get your site in the works, and of course if you already have an RSS feed you'll get included that much sooner.

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Kay Frenzer-Zeeh

Buzz Marketing Pros - Chandler, AZ

Real Estate SEO

Johnny - let me know what happens.

Bill - it is totally vague, that's why I emailed him.

Ken - I don't understand why you're ranting. 1. I'm advising the free listing. 2. So what if it takes awhile? Eventually you'll have your site on one more relevant place. 3. It wasn't worthless for me - I input Chandler AZ and came up with a bunch of listings. 4. It's a new site...but I'm impressed with it, and they are advertising throughout the web. I think given time it will have some good juice going for it. 5. Considering it would take at the most 5 minutes to add your site for free via a quick email, I don't see the downside. 6. Rants are okay, it gives me a chance to clarify my point.

Dude - chill out!

Feb 28, 2008 03:21 AM

Ryan Martin

Pacific Continental Realty, LLC - Bellingham, WA

Bellingham Commercial RE Broker

SEO Diva - Interesting... IMO there is only one search engine, but I will take a look at it.

Feb 28, 2008 09:25 AM

Kay Frenzer-Zeeh

Buzz Marketing Pros - Chandler, AZ

Real Estate SEO

Ryan - for general info, I agree, but when I was looking for a house I was looking at places like this. I like the interface, and found myself perusing homes in the area. At any rate, no reason not to add your web site to it.

Feb 28, 2008 09:47 AM

Kay Frenzer-Zeeh

Buzz Marketing Pros - Chandler, AZ

Real Estate SEO

Ken - the point is, a visitor to the dothomes.com site probably didn't know or go directly to the realtor's site. I am at a loss as to why there's any resistance to adding one's web site to this search engine! It's free. It takes a minute to send an email to request an add. It's real estate specific. You may actually get a client. What's to lose?

Feb 28, 2008 09:53 AM

Konnie Mac McCarthy

MacNificent Properties, LLC - Cobb Island, MD

Broker/Owner - VA & MD "Time To Get A Move On!"

Hi Kay...I'm heading over to add my site... :)

Feb 28, 2008 10:03 AM

Kelsie Compton

Triangle Choice Realty, Inc. - Cary, NC

Cary NC Real Estate

Kay, Thanks for the tip!

Best Wishes,

Kelsie

Feb 28, 2008 11:22 AM

Ken Montville

RE/MAX United Real Estate - College Park, MD

The MD Suburbs of DC

Kay,

Sure. One more place to expose your listings. Great. Free. Double Great. Except that I already expose them on so many "real estate specific" websites now I need a VA to do it for me. When I get the stats back I get 3 visitors, 5 visitors, 1 visitor. Of course, when I get stats back from Realtor.com they go through the roof but the listing still won't sell :-( and, yes, it's priced low to the market.

I think the tagline for BytePlay (evidently the parent site for dotHomes) says it all -- "because the world needs another blog".

It's like the never ending expansion of the Universe.

dotHomes is a nice URL. One day it may be the place to go and since they're tied in to the UK and South Africa we could have a little international thing going.

OK. Here's my point. You could put up a free website. I could put up a free website. Anyone reading this could put up a free website. After all, affiliate marketers do it all the time. But is it effective. Just because it's free doesn't mean we should pile on. And just because I might stumble across a free website doesn't mean I would advertise it to a potential audience of 74,000+

Thank you for allowing me to present an opposing view.

Feb 28, 2008 11:37 AM

Kay Frenzer-Zeeh

Buzz Marketing Pros - Chandler, AZ

Real Estate SEO

Ken - You never know when one of those 3 or 5 visitors may end up buying a home from you.

Here's my point: the site, which is fairly new, is well done, is advertising on the web, has a lot of potential, had 6,400 visitors last month, the Alexa rank is shooting up, and it's a PR4. Google likes it. We are now in a global economy, I have contacts all over the world, and the "ties" to the UK and South Africa(?) have nothing to do with anything.

Also, I don't advertise any old site I "stumble across" to the 74,000 member audience of AR. I'm an SEO specialist, with enough SEO successes (from very small to multi-million dollar companies) under my belt to be very confident, and when I bring a site to the attention of Active Rain members, it's because I think it's a valuable site for them to consider. Down the road, those who took the two minutes to add their site may end up with a valuable backlink, targeted traffic, and sales.

Feb 28, 2008 12:15 PM

Kay Frenzer-Zeeh

Buzz Marketing Pros - Chandler, AZ

Real Estate SEO

Konnie - good for you!

Kelsie - you're welcome!

Feb 28, 2008 01:00 PM

Bill Gassett

RE/MAX Executive Realty - Hopkinton, MA

Metrowest Massachusetts Real Estate

Kay - Your last comment to Ken is what I was waiting for you to say :)

Feb 29, 2008 01:50 AM

Ken Montville

RE/MAX United Real Estate - College Park, MD

The MD Suburbs of DC

I'm going to my room now to pout.

BTW, it wasn't that intuitive to me as to a) how to add a listing or b) how to send them an e-mail

Feb 29, 2008 02:21 AM

Eleanor Thorne

Equity Resources - Cary, NC

Advantage Lending 919-649-5058

It's interesting how things work on the Rain... I just read this blog before coming here. We are all looking for ways to get more business - that's why we subscribe to the Diva. (thanks!)

Mar 04, 2008 12:59 AM

Ulster County

Ulster County Real Estate - Stone Ridge, NY

I am all over it . . . thanks

Mar 21, 2008 01:08 PM

Tony Fantis

Fantis Group Real Estate - Salt Lake City, UT

Realtor,Principal Broker - Salt Lake City

YAY! Another free place to list my website, which will add to my google ranking points. Thanks again!

Mar 23, 2008 05:27 AM

Megan McGonigal

Integrity Real Estate - Northeast, MD

CRP - Cecil County, MD & Harford County, MD Real Estate

Hi Kay, I just heard of them a few days ago on my vflyer site. It says there that if you publish a vflyer they will automatically post the vflyer of your listing on this site.

Mar 24, 2008 04:58 PM

Sasha Miletic - Windsor Real Estate

RE/MAX Preferred Realty Ltd. - Windsor, ON

Kay, I appreciate your effort. Thanks

Mar 26, 2008 05:03 AM

Will Daly

We Know Urban Realty - Phoenix, AZ

www.WeKnowUrban.com - Phoenix High Rise and Loft C

I try to do everything Kay tells me to do and it has been paying off. My web site traffic is good and getting better. Thanks Kay. W

May 21, 2008 05:19 PM

Kay Frenzer-Zeeh

Buzz Marketing Pros - Chandler, AZ

Real Estate SEO

@Will - whoopee! Glad to hear it :D

May 27, 2008 10:02 AM

George Tallabas

RE/MAX Advantage - Nampa, ID

Idaho Real Estate

Kay - I must be blind. I went to the site and I saw very little with no link to add a site or anything that resembled a way to add my site.

May 29, 2008 02:55 PM

Kay Frenzer-Zeeh

Buzz Marketing Pros - Chandler, AZ

Real Estate SEO

@George - nope, you're not blind. I couldn't find anything either. I emailed Artemi way back in February about the difficulty in submitting a site; apparently he's only looking for advertisers at this time. It's too bad - I thought it would become a great resource.

May 29, 2008 04:01 PM