11th December 2008

Link To FranceHouseHunt

As you probably know if you use FranceHouseHunt at all, it is a free website. Totally free. We don’t charge for listings, we don’t charge commission if you sell a property, we don’t charge for emails and we don’t charge for featuring your property. We don’t charge at all.
As we have explained before this is because we got sick of paying extortionate prices to other property portals to advertise our properties. We wanted a way to get our properties seen by thousands of people without having to spend out thousands of € every month to various property portals. We also wanted other agencies and private sellers to be able to use the same facility at no cost to them. This is especially important at the moment with the property market as it is….we have to make savings wherever we can. Thus FranceHouseHunt was born.

We truly never in our wildest dreams expected to it to overtake some of the more ‘established’ French property portals. FranceHouseHunt has grown massive. This has led to its own problems. The site was intended to ‘run itself’. The site was meant to cost very little to run. And it would have ‘run itself’ and it would have been cheap to run IF it hadn’t grown so big so quickly.

We have had to move the site to a new server capable of handling the massive amount of traffic we get everyday - the server now uses over 20 gigabytes of space and uses 1-3 gigabytes of bandwidth every day. We now have to help, advise and answer questions from people buyers and sellers alike) throughout the day.
We have to maintain and update the site most days.
We have to work to ensure the site continues to rank well in the search engines (and to rank better). 
We work (or pay people) to develop new features for the site. 

This all costs money and time. 

Because the site has grown so much, without the support of our advertisers we would not be able to afford to run the site (we only make money from banner ads).

Without a resource like FranceHouseHunt you the property seller (whether an agency or private seller) would not be able to get the exposure your properties need without paying out money.
You would not get the quality leads we generate (i.e. we don’t attract people to the site who are looking for a recipe for French toast or a kir royale and who enquire about a property because they are curious but have no intention of taking it further).
You wouldn’t be getting as many visits to YOUR website/web-page (after all, how many of the other French property portals have a link directly to YOUR site from every one of YOUR listings?).

So, help us to help you. I know its a cliche and you’ve heard it before, but it is true in our case. Help to keep FranceHouseHunt free and get more visitors to the site so that YOU can benefit.

How can you help?

Add a link from your site to ours from somewhere (anywhere) on YOUR site. It can be a text link or a banner. It can be anything you like, please, just add a link. If you need a banner we do have some available HERE.

Thank you

 

 

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9th December 2008

We’re Sorry

In this very difficult economic period we wish to apologise to all agencies and private advertisers.

We want to say sorry that we are not able to give you any special offers. We want to say sorry that we can’t give you a ‘free period’ to advertise your property.

We can’t give you these ’special offers’ because it is already TOTALLY FREE to advertise your properties on FranceHouseHunt.com! 

But what we can give you is much more exposure for your properties, quality enquiries (i.e. not from people who were visiting the site to find a recipe for kir royale or French toast). Take a look, we’re number 1 on Google for many of the top key phrases.

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27th November 2008

Welcome To Our Latest Advertiser - Abord Immo

A warm welcome to the latest French Immobilier to advertise their properties on FranceHouseHunt.com - Abord Immo.

Abord Immo are based in the west of France and describe themselves thus:

If you are looking for a property in the west of France you have come to the right place. 
We offer a professional and enthusiastic service in plain English to help you find the place of your dreams.
At the moment we are based in two areas.
POITOU CHARENTES: In the northern Deux Sèvres on the borders of the Vendée and the Maine et Loire.
PAYS DE LA LOIRE: In the Mayenne but also covering the Normandy borders.

Our team is here to help you in all aspects of looking for, buying and owning a property in France.

We have long established links with top mortgage providers, insurance companies and translation services.

To see all of Abord Immos properties currently listed on FranceHouseHunt click HERE.

 

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