Thanks Kay, I'm submitting mine now.

Kay,  The sign on page from your link is very vague !

$95/mo to advertise on a site that is essentially data mining existing IDX sites. Whew!

Free listings but it takes awhile to get them up there?

I actually went to the site (thanks for the link) and it is simple, elegant and pretty.  It is, also, worthless.  I put in College Park, MD (per their example) and clicked on the "I'm Feeling Wealthy" button (Hey, I feel wealthy!). It put the word "expensive" after my search term and came back with....nothing.  I re-entered the search term and just did "Find a Home" and, again,....nothing. Finally, I left off the State and just input the city and...nothing.

College Park, MD, home of the famous University of MD Terps sports dynasty, has paaaalenty of homes on the market in all price ranges from the $200,000s to close to a mil. 

Kay, help us out here. Is this site just another "me too" trying to grab a few advertising dollars (BTW, I didn't even see any advertising)?

Facebook is probably as effective.  My Space.  Just because a site has the word "homes" or "real estate" on it doesn't mean it helps.

I know this is a bit of a rant and I hope you decide to leave it.  With both time and marketing dollars being a finite resource we need to be more selective. 

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I went back to the site and input Florida Keys, FL (like right under the search box) and, sure enough, lots of listings!  I clicked on a few and it took me right to the Broker's website. Century21, ERA, Coldwell Banker. No different than if I went directly t the Brokers' sites.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I give this site a minus 2 for trying to be something it isn't.  On a 1 star to 5 star rating --- it's a pretty cloudy night, can't see any stars.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

Kay, Thanks for the tip!

Best Wishes,

Kelsie

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. 

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.

Konnie - good for you!

Kelsie - you're welcome! 

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

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

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!)

I am all over it . . . thanks

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

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.

Kay, I appreciate your effort. Thanks

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

@Will - whoopee! Glad to hear it :D

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.

@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.