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Why is daft.ie Ireland's busiest website?

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  • 21-07-2006 11:15pm
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    Cantab.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭


    Are Irish people just gone property mad altogether?!


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,392 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Theres a high turnover in the rental market.

    Who says it is number one? I would have though ireland.com would have been ahead.


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    apeking
    Registered Users Posts: 492 ✭✭apeking


    http://www.daft.ie/news/2006/TopIrishWebsitesABC.gif


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    YeAh!
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭YeAh!


    Well yeah, makes sense, we are gone property mad. Houses are going up around my area where we never thought they'd be houses. Swampy marshes (ok not that bad...) are being drained for semi-ds, places where nobody ever thought houses could possibly exist.


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    ai ing
    Registered Users Posts: 396 ✭✭ai ing


    I know everytime I am looking for a place or maybe just interested in moving I would visit their site a couple of times a day. As Victor said the high turnover in rentals means there would be thousands of others doing the same as me.


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    lardboy
    Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭lardboy


    That's only ABC audited sites, there's no Yahoo, Google or MSN figures included. Many websites don't subscribe to ABC, so they aren't included. According to Sales Online, Yahoo have more than double the page impressions per month, and Boards would creep in just Irishjobs.ie on the list but use a different method of measurement.

    Still crazy, mind you.


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    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    A lot of it is nosiness.

    I teach basic computer classes and how to use the internet. And I always let my trainees loose on that website. They love looking at the photos and seeing how poorly some people have set up their living rooms... sometimes they can even find the details of a house for sale that is on their road.


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    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    If you are from a large urban area and go onto daft.ie looking to buy, rent or share you could end up looking at well over a over hundred pages just to see what is available. You might do this multiple times. Lots of people check it when deciding whether to contiune a lease or move and others who are letting use it to gauge the market rate for their area.

    Property is one of the busiest areas of trade in this country and they're the biggest property site so it's not really surprising.


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    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    This is the reason

    For estate agents,
    Myhome.ie costs €1,400 plus vat to register every year plus €160 per property to display on myhome.ie. (bit of a rip off)

    Daft.ie charge €99 per month rental and you can put as many properties as want on to the site.

    Which means estate agents have been switching to Daft to display there properties which in turn means more and more people have also been searching the daft for property.


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