Being the owner of a holiday home rental I wanted to let people know that Direct Holiday Lets are currently offering advertising on their site for only 35 euros per year which is excellent value.
I have some good bookings from them and will definetely be renewing my listing. Although I have had more with holidaylettings.co.uk, Direct Holiday Lets still represents excellent value for money.
Having purchased a home in Spain over the last 4 years, I have been following the real estate market on the coast during this period with some interest.
Many greedy sellers and estate agents alike have fallen flat on their faces with their high hopes of making a killing out of some less than with-it buyer. Some of the prices that you see in the papers and real estate agents windows are hard to believe. I swear that most of the agents and owners put about 50% commission on top and then wonder why they can’t sell their properties!
In the UK, estate agents charge around 1.5% commission whereas in Spain the commission is more like 5%, which I think is due to the competition. But why not drop your commission and stay ahead of the competition? It does make wonder why not.
There are a number of larger estate agents on the coast who have a some what debatable reputation. These are the agents that put so much pressure on clients and pull out every dirty trick to secure that commission. Some of them really would sell their mothers!
Im please to say though that there are a number of smaller agents on the coast who have a good reputation and who will go out of their way to help YOU and not themselves . PGM Property World are one such family run agency with property for sale in Spain. Take a look at their site at www.pgmpropertyworld.com for further info and for a list of their current properties.
One thing is for sure. Its getting harder and harder to rank well for competitive keywords. With Google clamping down on paid links and also giving less value to certain social media sites, removing the PR of most of the nets directories and generally making it harder for an individual to manipulate the SERP’s, or “muddy the SERP’s” as Google like to put it, the emphasis is more than ever being placed on quality content for your site.
There are two kinds of link building strategies, you either go after links or you get links to come to you.
What is meant by this is that if you create fantastic link worthy content, people will link to it naturally. The other method is to seek out links yourself manually, whether it be directories, related sites, blogs, forums, blog comments, social media networking or social media bookmarking to name a few.
Both methods should be used, but the hardest of the two is creating links naturally by having people link to you site or specific pages on your site. The only way this can be done is by creating something of great interest, statistics, an article, top 10 list, free software or some other interesting informational link bait. Like they say, “if you create it, they will link to it”.
Another way of creating links is to write articles on your niche and get them out there onto the net. This can be via social media sites, bookmarking, article directories or blogs. The most important factor though is that the article is “link worthy”. So its worthwhile taking your time with the article. Even if the article takes a month to write, in the long run it will be worth it, as you may get many quality links from high PR sites or authority sites.
In my mind this will be the way to go in the very near future, if not now. So sharpen that pencil.. uh I mean keyboard and get writing some great content. After all, its what we all want when searching the web right?
I have some friends from my daughters school who recently started up an online auction in Spain website which I thought I would like to mention as I know that some of my few viewers are like me, based in Spain.
The site is really cool and is basically just like Ebay but targets the English speaking communities here in Spain.
The good thing is that unlike Ebay, delivery costs are normally low because both the seller and the buyer both are located in Spain. This also means that delivery of your item should not take so long either.
I’m sure the site will do well. Especially as I am doing the SEO on it!!
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