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Making better use of my rental websites

April 4th, 2007 by Kenric

My first investment property was a condo built by Optima and when it was complete I purchased the website Optimacondos.com and was using it to rent out my condo.  The site was great at bringing in callers.  However, after I got my one and only Optima condo rented I would still consistently get one of two calls a week asking if I had any others available.  I would usually take down the site, only to put it back up when my tenant was leaving.

But now since I’ve discovered the power of the internet I realized that I was wasting a URL by removing it.  I decided to put it to good use.  Optimacondos.com slowly creeped up around #2-#5 in Google for the search terms optima, condos, rent.  It’s not a popular search term, but people who type that in know exactly what they’re looking for.  So instead of letting the site sit there and do nothing I decided to make it a “for rent” site where owners of these condos can post their ads.

It’s been up less than a week and I’ve gotten alot of registered users and a few posts.  Unfortunately, the free ad software isn’t the greatest so the site doesn’t look too professional.  I guess I could by pro-ad software and then charge people a small fee like $5 to post ads on there.  But for now, it’s just going to be a free site and I’m going to monitor its traffic.

I have a few other website URLs like this one so I may do the same with them in the future.

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