As a property seller, you are right to look for increased value for money when choosing a portal for your advertising.  To advertise a property for sale in France online, you need to choose a site that:

• Is part of a group that is No.1 in the market for properties in France, touching over 100,000 potential buyers every month
• Is still growing its audience, despite a decline in the overall property market
• Is already ranked in the all important No.1 and No.2 slot for key search terms
• Is already optimised to pick up increasingly sophisticated search terms
• Is still investing in marketing spend, when others are cutting back or stopping entirely
• Is continuing to invest in enhanced functionality, and is a destination site, not just an aggregator
• Is reacting to market demands on price and volume in a sensitive market

The right site for you is www.francepropertyshop.com and this is why:

• Over the course of 2008, search volume on Google for “Property in France” and “French property” have declined by over 55%, but over the same period the volume of unique users to  www.francepropertyshop.com has grown. (source: Google Analytics, August – December 2007 vs. January 2009)

• In 2008, www.francepropertyshop.com had over 350,000 visits and delivered over 7,000,000 page views

• For any search term, the top 2 organic rankings account for over 70% of all click-throughs, (Source – AOL), so being part of a site in the top 2 rankings is absolutely key to success.

• www.francepropertyshop.com already achieves No.1 ranking on Google for: Buying property in France, France properties, Properties in France, Property France and Property in France.    It achieves No.2 ranking on Google for: Advertise property in France, France property, French property and Property for sale in France.

• Through 2009, www.francepropertyshop.com is increasing its SEO marketing budget, to DOUBLE the investment in 2008 that helped it achieve these rankings and market share.

• www.francepropertyshop.com is already optimised to attract browsers searching for over 9,000 further search terms. This is increasingly important as web users become more sophisticated in the search terms they use. As a result, SEO spend will be focused on a range of key words associated with regions or price brackets

• www.francepropertyshop.com will continue to enjoy full promotion across all 3 of our magazines and all 9 of our other websites. In 2009, it will also be promoted across the whole of Archant Life – a portfolio of regional and national titles and websites delivering an audience across the UK of 4,200,000 every month

• We have been consulting with our key advertisers – both print and online – and have rationalised our pricing structure for estate agents. Multiple property packages now start from as little as £80 per month, with our price per property per month now as low as £0.19. 

 For further information on prices  and for more information, please contact Justin Farnan on This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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