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Internet advertising of real estate and property is getting very popular these days as evident by the number of real estate web sites that have gone online in the cyberspace. Many of the web sites offer free listing while some charge for their service. In general, users are still able to find quality real estate web sites that offer free listing.

There are many advantages that are associated with internet advertising of real estate, internet advertising is mostly free as real estate seller can list in multiple web sites for free, and this is a big contrast as compared with the conventional newspaper advertising where they charge you by the day and by the size of your advertising space. With internet advertising, sellers can practically advertise for free and repost their listing upon expiry until such time that their property is sold. In newspaper classifieds, to increase the chance of the listing being noticed by house buyer, house seller would need to advertise more than once as potential buyer may not read their advertisement on the day the advertisement is posted. The longer they post their advertisement, the more they would have to pay.

Internet advertising of real estate is instant, many of the real estate web sites instantly display the advertisement upon submission, seller need not wait for the next day for the advertisement to be published like in the case of local newspaper classifieds.

Internet advertising offer greater exposure as sellers can list their property in as many web sites as they like whole year long and the listing is not limited to the country where the seller stays, in fact, as soon as the advertisement goes online, it will be indexed by search engines and become searchable by people from all over the world. The property listings over the internet is in fact having a so called ‘global presence’.

Another advantage of internet advertising is that it makes it very easy for buyer to search and notice the property that fit his or her requirement. Many of the web sites offer advance search feature that allow the buyer to search with certain criteria such as location, type of property, price range etc so that buyer only look that those advertisement that fit his or her criteria, basically filter out all irrelevant advertisement, making it easier for buyer to get their choice property with minimum effort and time. This is also a sharp contrast as compared with newspaper classifieds where buyer will have to sieve through more than ten pages of classifieds which consist of minute print, with newspaper classifieds, buyer will have to do the filtering and sorting themselves. As the content of internet are indexed by various search engine such as Google, Yahoo, MSN etc daily, the listings uploaded by sellers become searchable not only by search feature of the particular real estate web site but by search engines in general.

One more advantage of internet advertising is that sellers are able to upload photo of their property so that potential buyer can have an an idea what the property look like, most real estate web sites allow up to five photographs upload. To display five photographs on newspaper classifieds would have cost the seller considerable amount of money.

So, real estate listings on the internet do seem to offer a lot of convenience and advantages. However, internet or newspaper is really a matter of personal choice too.

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The real estate or property agent deals with sale or rental of properties on behalf of property owners. They normally have huge database of properties entrusted to them by house owners.

To make known the available properties to the public either for sale or for rental, the property agent normally resort to regular advertising in the local newspapers. They normally would need to advertise over a long term period as potential buyer or renter may not notice the properties if the agent only advertise for a day or two. In fact, many of them advertise everyday.

Advertising over a long term period is going to incur a lost of cost for the real estate agent. It is also not possible to advertise all the properties in their database as doing so would further escalate the cost.

When the agent only advertise a handful of properties out of the many they have, they would still need to attend to enquiries from public as to whether they have certain property at certain location for sale or for rent. This will put strain in the operation of the agent as the agent will be so busy to attend to calls that he has no time to carry out his other tasks. The ratio of enquiry materialising into actual sale is rather small thus imagine the number of enquiries a agent would have to handle before he clinch a sale.

Moreover, it will also be difficult for the agent to keep track of his own database if the database is large.

Having a web site with database will make life of the property agent much easier. The agent will only need to submit every new property to his web site and it will be immediately available for viewing by the public, it will remain in the database and the web until it is removed. The real estate web site can be equipped with advance search feature so that by input in the criteria such as location, price range and type of house, the web users or public can search for the property of their choice. Which means that the advertising is immediate and live 24 hours every day, every year until it is deleted.

Moreover the advertising on the web has world wide presence. It also allow the agent to manage his database more efficiently as he will be able to track his database, add property into his database or delete property from his database at any place or any time as long as he has internet connection.

The internet advertising allow the public to view the complete list of properties the agent has at any time or any place with internet connection connection without troubling the agent, the amount of phone enquiries will reduce and this will enable the agent to lead a more quality life and has more time to carry out other tasks thereby ultimately reduce stress of working.

While it is very useful and important today for a real estate & property agent to have web presence, many have not much knowledge of designing a web site and depend on others to prepare one for them. While a complicated real estate web site with database and admin control is the most ideal as it is most versatile and complete but it may be costly to have one done by an IT specialist. To have a simple web site done with simple HTML require constant updating in the page format and page linking structure as new content are constantly added. For those who are not very familiar with web design, having the need to constantly updating the site can be a daily pain.

There are many web site that offer free blog site for web users and one of those is none other than blogger.com. But what has a blog site got to do with real estate web site ? The blog site such as blogger.com is free to use, just register for an account with a sub-domain name that you like and start posting right away. Every property for sale or for rent with photo can be uploaded as a posting. Information for each property can be included as detail as possible together with the photo in each of the posting. Whenever the agent is entrusted with a new property for sale or for rent, all he need to do is just to post the property with full details. There is no need to worry about the linking structure between the pages as it is automatically taken care of by the blog script. Moreover there are many available templates to choose from and agent can choose the look that he likes. there is also no real need to do regular backup and it save the agent a lot of hassle.

In addition, the agent can register for an google adsense account and start making money through pay per click internet advertising straight away.

As the number of listings increase, a google site search can be included to falicitate visitors of the site to search through the site.

So it sound like killing two birds with one stone, the blog site can serve as a well presented real estate web site with beautiful linking structure and adsense allows the agent to begin buiding his money making empire through the internet.

Does it sound too good to be true, not really, a check or search in cyberspace will reveal that many have already taken and adopt this approach.

Setting up a real estate web site is easier than most people think. A real estate web site with portal, classifieds, blog, real estate directoty, article directory & forum can be set up in a matter of days.

But what is the use if no body know of the existence of your web site. After completing the web site, there is always satisfaction that finally one is able to be part of ever booming cyberspace where news and articles everywhere suggested that there are indeed great earning potential, moreover not being in the web is kind of stange these days, many people have their own blog or for that matter blogs. However reality soon set in, sitting in front of the computer, checking the various stastistic generated by the server provider or the script you have inserted into your web page, can be a very frustrating affair as suddenly you find to your horror that nobody or not many people are visting the beautify web site or the best web site you claimed to have built in your lifetime, the worst is that you may find that majority of the traffic to your site is none other than yourself.

So, no wonder there are so many web sites out there that try to outdo each other by offering the best tips in SEO, short for search engine optimisation, meaning that web site has to be optimised for the many search engine out there that determine the life and death of your web site. If your web site is consistently being shown at the front page of the search results of the major search engine for the targeted key words, then you can be rest assured that you may have your fair share of success with your web site. But then how do we ensure that our web site will be returned in the search results instead of other web sites, the main method is to improve the search ranking of your web site by increasing the back link to your web site or simply known as link popularity.

The most common method is to trade link with other web sites or simply to submit your link to directories but you only get one back link for each effort and it is unknown if the back link that you have obtained will still be linking to you six months down the road. The method which most SEO advocate now is the writing of articles and submit them to article directories. By writing good articles, there is a good chance that your articles may be adopted by other webmasters as additional quality content for their web sites, as all users of article directory are required to use the article in its original state which include a resouce box which usually contain the link to the authors’ web site and when one article you have written is used by 100 webmasters, then you have 100 one way back links and yes that is leveraging effect being exploited to the fullest in buiding back links. So instead of spending a lot of time carrying out the tedious link trading, why not sit back and write one good real estate article and submit it to a real estate article directory and begin the journey of building back link in a more effective way.

Most of the companies today are equipped with a web site, some use it to disseminate company information while other use it to promote their products. Web site is particularly useful for housing developer to introduce their new project to complement the traditional or conventional ways of advertising through the newspapers, radio or TV. By using web site to disseminate information about the new housing project, developers are able to advertise in a very cost effective way as advertising over the web is very much cheaper compared with the conventional media, not to mention the worldwide exposure 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, effectively everyday until the information is taken down from the web.

In today globalised world where many foreigners invest in Malaysian properties, many potential buyers could actually gather as much information about the properties before they actually visit the showroom. The case mentioned does not only apply to foreign buyer, but also apply to out station buyer from within our country. A typical case would be if a person from Penang interested to purchase a property in Kuala Lumpur, he or she can surf the web and visit the web site of the developer and view as much information as possible before making a trip down to the showroom to visit the actual location. When the potential buyer visit the showroom , he or she may already be very familiar with the subject property and thus saving the sale person a lot of time and effort as the sale person is saved from explaining the various details.

In fact, there are many cases where potential buyers have already got a decision in their mind and they visit the showroom just to close the deal. Therefore it is extremely important for developer to include a well planned web site in their marketing strategy as having a good web site will surely make selling much easier.

In our daily life, we are flooded with a variety of advertisement from the various mode of media such as newspaper, television, radio, magazine, billboard, flyer, email marketing, internet etc.

Advertising is an integral part of business as business owner need to reach out to consumer to promote their products or services.

However for the advertising to have an impact, the advertising will have to be placed or aired on a consistent basis as there are simply too many advertising in our daily life and it is simply not possible for us to notice or absorb all of them. One of the example is the real estate advertising whereby one can find at least 10 pages of property classifieds in our local newspaper. As advertising cost money, many or most house seller resort to placement of smallest classified possible and this results in the classifieds section of local newspaper look like a flood of fine print, it is not possible to read through or sieve through all listing simply because there are too many of them.

Moreover, to increase the chance of the listing being noticed by house buyer, house seller would need to advertise more than once as potential buyer may not read their advertisement on the day the advertisement is posted. The longer they post their advertisement, the more they would have to pay.

That is where internet advertising excel. For a start, internet advertising are mostly free, there are quite a number of property listing web site and classifieds web site that allow house seller to post their house for sale without charging a fee for listing. Some web site allow free listing up to a year period and even if the house is not sold after a year, the user can repost his listing until his property is sold or rented.

Most of the property listing web site is equipped with advance search function whereby house buyer can search for the property they wanted based on certain criteria such as location, price, type of house etc, the search engine will search through the database and list out only listings that fit the search criteria, therefore the buyer does not need to read through the entire database, the search engine carry out the short listing, thus saving time.

Apart from the above, the property listing web sites are also regularly being indexed by the search engine such as google.com, yahoo.com, msn.com and many others. All listing details are also picked up by these search engines and when web users search for a particular property, the search engine can also return results that originated from the listing at the property listing web site.

As internet listing exist in the cyberspace over a long period and with the availability of search engine, there is an increasing chance that the subject property will be noticed by potential buyer. Most important of all, it can be done at almost zero cost except for the internet connection which is anyway needed for other purposes.

In the future when the chidren of this generation grow up, one can expect that internet advertising to take over the conventional classified as it is unlikely that the children of today are not exposed to internet.