Tenants trying to rent a London Flat are prey to scammers because large sums of money are involved, and landlords are cautious so the scammer can disguise the scam as caution.
Pimlico Flats has campaigned against the scammers for a long time, but people are still trying scams and still falling for them.
I am doing a study of search methods on the Internet & would like to hear from Websites who meet the following criteria:
Offer goods or services which are better value for money (either better or cheaper) than generally available.
Are difficult to find in normal search due to competition from bigger organisations with larger marketing budgets.
A pre-requisite of your website should be that you are what people are looking for on the Internet, but can’t find. If you meet these criteria please comment or e-mail me with your URL. If you are chosen for the study you should gain publicity for your website.
Submission should include your URL & a statement of less than 200 words as to why your Website is better value for money than others found in a typical search.
Have you ever arrived to view a Flat, & known the moment that you got off the bus, or came out of the tube station, that you really didn’t want to live in that area, whatever the flat was going to look like?
Most people have, & now there is an answer – use the internet to check out the area before you travel. We are still waiting for Google’s Street View to do this for us, but while Google is still promising to realise the data at some time in the future, Seety has gone ahead and done it. The people behind Seety have been working on mapping technologies and panoramic images for the last few years. Based on their experience, they have created a site that works the same way as Google’s Street View. However, they have beaten the search engine giant in their coverage of London. The imagery uses Google Maps as an index. They claim to have driven more than 1000 kilometres around London and produced a total of 171,103 pictures.
The Route from Pimlico Flats to Sainsbury’s Markets
So now you can have a look at your prospective area. For instance this map shows Pimlico Flats (the big red cross), the route to Sainsbury’s Market – a 5 minute walk highlighted on the map. The Market is marked by the red arrow, & the photo can be rotated 360 degrees in Click for Seety’s view of Wilton Rd. .
So now you will always be able to check out an area before you travel to a viewing.
I’ve come across 2 suggestions as to how to promote a website in Google searches which aren’t normally suggested by the SEO companies. I would appreciate your views as to whether these little known techniques work.
Firstly Linking Out. A bundle of blogs suggest that linking out may be more important than is generally believed. No coincidence that I link out to these Blogs!
