300 volunteer commentors on one Property Blog post

July 29, 2011 - PRLog -- Property118.com has attracted nearly 300 businesses volunteering to test the registration process of their new Property Services Directory, due to launch officially at midday on Monday 8th August 2011.

The website is fast becoming one of the most powerful in the UK private rental sector when it comes to attracting search engines and private landlords. Check it out for yourself, type the words ONLINE PROPERTY AUCTION SERVICE into Google and see what comes up out of the possible 397 million options that Google could choose from.

When you do this search, you will find a News article featuring a company called BidOnMyHouse.co.uk which was written earlier this year.  Since then BidOnMyHouse have seen a 500% increase in business which they attribute directly to that one article.  The owner, Paul Fieldson, wrote this wonderful testimonial. (http://www.property118.com/index.php/paul-fieldson-bidonmyhouse-provides-glowing-testimonial-for-property118-com/)

What makes the Property118.com Directory Different?

One difference is that it will feature any business providing services to the Private Rental Sector.  Other niche Directories focus on trades only and the professions tend to each have their own Directories.

Mark Alexander, founder of Property118.com said: "We named the company to describe our ultimate goal of being the UK's leading Property Services Directory. However, we knew that to be successful we had to attract the attention of the Private Rental Sector which is why we built our news section first. Our Directory will not list businesses alphabetically.  It will sort by location and service provided but perhaps most important of all, the businesses with the most independent testimonials will feature highest in the list."

Property118.com own a Landlord Database over over 300,000 records, all of which receive the Property118.com Landlord Newsletter every week.

Just How Popular is Property118.com?

As of today, the website has an Alexa.com rank of 4,129 in the UK.  Alexa measures how popular websites are based on number of visitors, average number of pages read and average time spent on the site.  Ranking at 4,129 after just 6 months in business is quite some feat. To put this into perspective, established websites targeting the financial and property sectors rank as follows:

   Money Facts 5,190
   FT Adviser 8,647
   Mortgage Strategy 7,673
   Money Marketing 4,606
   Paragon Mortgages 55,624
   The Mortgage Works 17,507
   Aviva.com 10,335
   Standard Life 10,377

However, Property118.com have some way to go to catch up with the UK's #1 property portal rightmove.co.uk as they rank as number 28, well ahead of other big names like Yell.com ranking at #91

As you might expect, #1 in the UK is Google.co.uk with Facebook at number 2, followed by other online giants including BBC, YouTube, Yahoo, Amazon and ebay.

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