As the internet becomes an increasingly powerful tool for reaching buyers, traditional media offers less value. That is why Alta Realty has focused our resources on the internet. In the past decade, on-line real estate searches have significantly increased. According to a National Association of Realtors 2008 survey asking recent home buyers where they learned about the properties they ultimately purchased, 87% of all home buyers and 94% of buyers aged 25 to 44 years used the internet to search for homes. Only real estate professionals themselves were more successful in bringing buyers and sellers together.

All properties listed with Alta Realty are immediately entered onto the Teton Board of Realtors internet-based Multiple Listing Service system. This allows over 650 realtors in our area direct access to our client’s properties. This MLS information on our client’s properties and all other real estate listed for sale in the area can also be viewed by the general public through our website, which is an enhanced feature offered by Alta Realty.

Because of the ever increasing popularity of the internet, in March 2008 we launched our new website, designed with search engine friendly, accessible programming. Our website is programmed using top notch W3C valid PHP, MySQL, Xhtml, CSS, XML/ RSS and Javascript using structures and methodologies that are extremely friendly to modern search engine web crawlers. (See attached detailed explanation) Based on statistical information from Google Analytics, in the first six months of this year our site has had 5,903 site visits spending an average time of 4.55 minutes per visit.

In addition to having your property showcased on our website, we are also placing our client’s properties on other popular real estate websites to maximize exposure, most of which include an individually created virtual tour. Listed below are some of these sites:

Realtor.com - All MLS listings are posted to this popular home search site. Realtor.com is also the real estate source for MSN.com and Excite.com where these listings also appear. Alta Realty has purchased the enhanced level of listing exposure in order to provide more detailed information on each property with unlimited photos and the option to upload a virtual tour, which makes our properties stand out in search results.

HomesAndLand.com - Attracting real estate’s wealthiest audience, over 30% of visitors have incomes of $150,000 and above. It is one of the most popular real estate websites because of the detailed, easy to understand presentation of properties.

Base.Google.com - All listings are featured in the Housing section of this leading search engine’s site. Google is the most used search engine for researching real estate information and services.

Yahoo.com - All listings appear in the Yahoo! Real Estate home search section, one of the top destinations for real estate consumers.

NYTimes.com - Listings $750,000 and above are featured on the New York Times real estate section, which accounts for more than 1.3 million unique visitors monthly.

WSJ.com - Listings $1,000,000 and above are posted to the Wall Street Journal’s RealEstateJournal.com Guide to Property site, an award-winning website receiving over 2 million page views each month.

Trulia.com - This is the fastest growing real estate website in the U.S. with nearly 3 million monthly visitors and growing. All listings are posted to this real estate search site.

Zillow.com - This is one of the most interactive real estate search websites available and all our listings are posted to this site.

JustRealEstateListings.com - This national and international website features all our properties with an easy search format provide the maximum information.

Homepages.com - Operated by Market Leader, Inc., the ninth fastest growing technology company in North America, this website features all our properties.

Our Website Technology

Search Engine Friendly, Accessible Programming:
Our website is programmed using top notch W3C valid PHP, MySQL, Xhtml, CSS, XML/ RSS and Javascript using structures and methodologies that are extremely friendly to modern search engine web crawlers.

Only crawler accessible programming is used, CSS controlled structures and modern methods such as stylized ordered lists etc. are used instead of older style tables which search engines can not read the containing information from. Javascript is used over Flash as it is more accessible and doesn't limit those without proper “plugins” from viewing the site.

Multi Browser Compliant:
By adhering to the W3C web standards it ensures that all browsers, new or old, will display the site correctly, making sure to not alienate those with different computing setups.

SEO (search engine optimization):
Our website has been submitted to all major search engine crawlers, with 50+ engines combined, both large and small. Carefully thought out and focused KeyWords and MetaData within the head of each site document ensures maximum search-ability and page ranking relevancy.

We have industry leading blogging software installed into the site, containing extremely appealing technology (RSS / XML feeds) to web crawlers. Content is updated regularly and contains targeting wording in the articles, keywords and metadata that crawlers love. Our site also has RSS feeds relevant to the listings, increasing the ability to be found on web searches.

We even pay for advertising for our site using Google Adwords to ensure our site gets noticed.

Intuitive Interface and Design:
Our website has been designed in compliance with MIT IS&T Usability guidelines, coupled with W3C validation, the site is accessible to all demographics of viewers. The layouts and navigations structures are clean, well thought out and intuitive to use whether you are young or old. Our fonts have been evenly spaced and are large enough to be easily read. No distracting colors or obnoxious fonts, our site is easy on the eyes and encourages visitors to stick around.

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