/24-7PressRelease/ - NORFOLK, VA, September 23, 2007 - Homes.com (www.homes.com), a division of Dominion Enterprises, announced today its highest website traffic results in the company's history. Based on comScore Media Metrix's monthly analysis, Homes.com experienced significant growth in both website visits and unique visitors, showing an increase of nearly 13% in unique visitors between June 2007 and August 2007.
Homes.com achieved its highest comScore ranking in 3 years; reaching number 11 for the real estate industry total internet audience. With this continued rise, Homes.com surpassed Zillow for the second month and jumped ahead of Realtytrac. Another exciting milestone for the company's long-term growth was a 40% increase in year-over-year unique visitors.
Homes.com attributes its growing success to a number of business initiatives, including redesigning the website and carving out a niche for itself in customer service. "It has always been our goal to facilitate relationships between home buyers and REALTORS," said Jason Doyle, Homes.com general manager. "We have dedicated our time and resources to creating partnerships that serve home buyers' needs, while offering limitless opportunities for our real estate
agent clients."
Stevan Cirkovic, Homes.com director of product development explains, "Our steady and continuing increase in traffic indicates that the Homes.com redesign in April 2007 was a turning point. We are utilizing the same methodology to improve our site that we recommend to our clients. The optimization of content to be more search engine friendly and the addition of homebuyer tools are paying off. ."
Based on the August comScore report, the Internet audience for the real estate industry has declined 3.7% in 2007. Despite this decrease, Homes.com has grown 2.8% Homegain.com, normally an industry leader, has lost 20% of its audience in the past month.
ABOUT HOMES.COM
Homes.com, a division of Dominion Enterprises, is one of the nation's leading providers of online real estate services, including property listing exposure, website development and innovative marketing solutions. More than 3 million homebuyers visit Homes.com each month to search thousands of listings of homes for sale across the country. The company is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia with offices in San Diego and Tallahassee, Florida. For more information, visit http://www.Homes.com.
ABOUT DOMINION ENTERPRISES
Dominion Enterprises, headquartered in Norfolk, Va., is a leading media and information services company serving employment, real estate, automotive, recreation and industrial markets in the United States. The company operates a variety of technology businesses that offer Internet marketing, Web site design and hosting, lead generation, CRM, and data capture and distribution services including Advanced Access, PowerSports Network, and Dealer Specialties. The company has more than 500 paid and free magazine titles such as The Employment Guide, For Rent, Harmon Homes, Boat Trader, Cycle Trader and RV Trader with a combined weekly circulation of over 5 million, and more than 40 market-leading Web sites such as EmploymentGuide.com, ForRent.com, Homes.com, and TraderOnline.com, reaching more than 8 million unique monthly visitors. The company has nearly 7,000 employees nationwide and 2006 annual revenue of more than $850 million. For more information, visit http://www.DominionEnterprises.com.
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