This is the first "Website Review Friday" post.
Website:
Http://www.OrangeCounty.net
Area: Orange County California
Highlights: Targeted Traffic, Multiple Links, Link Love Passing,
$$$
In 2007 this website received over five million (5,000,000)
unique visitors according to the statistics my contact their provided me. They
are also already estimating that they will exceed that number based on comparing
where they were last year at the time of my inquiry.
Five million visitors is a decent amount of traffic to any
website but I wanted to know more specifically about the traffic that visits
their real estate related pages. I was told that their main real estate page
(http://www.orangecounty.net/html/real.html)
received 120,000 unique visitors in 2007. Now that is an impressive amount of
targeted traffic!
Switching hats for a moment and looking at this sites ability
to pass link juice to your website, what I found was that you actually get two
links from your listing on this site. One is a text link and the other is an
image link. These links are found on the above mentioned real estate specific
page with only about 21 other advertisers.
The specific page is indexed with a Google Page Rank of
5 and was last cached on June 24th which speaks volumes for the pages authority
since the last time I checked it was cached on the 20th.
Now for the painful part for those Orange County Realtors
that are in a financial crunch. The cost per year to advertise on this website
is $299.00.
If you'd like to advertise on this website please
send me an e-mail. I'll put you in touch with a lady named Jessica who
provided me with the above information. She will help you get your ad set up
quickly.
Note: I find a few dozen
sites each month to review. However you as the Realtors are the ones who receive
all the solicitations from many website owners. Because of this I am inviting
anyone curious about a website to send me the website address and any questions
you might have. I won't be able to review all links publicly due to only
so many Fridays in a year but I will at least review privately and provide information
I dig up on the site itself.
My Very Warmest Regards,
John F. Jones III