A listing website is the one that provides a platform where businesses and individuals can list their products or services under one roof. Generally, listing websites include real estate listings, job listings, collage listings, car listings and many more. These websites have search box and filter options to make your search more specific and easy. Apart from that, listing websites have contact information, purchases, ratings and reviews to make purchase decisions fast and convenient.
Why are listing websites becoming so popular in the online industry?
In the current era where companies and customers both are online, it has become necessary to utilize the online sources to get maximum sales. Listing websites provide a more efficient way for buyers and sellers to connect. Instead of having to search multiple websites or writing again and again, users can simply find all the listings they need in one place. This can save a lot of time and effort, and make the buying or selling process much more convenient and quick.
The rise of mobile devices and apps has made it even easier for users to access listing websites on the go. This has increased the convenience of using these websites, as users can now search for listings, contact sellers or landlords, and even make a purchase or rental agreement from their mobile device.
Many listing websites now have sophisticated search and sorting functionality, which can help users to find exactly what they’re looking for. This includes advanced filters, map-based search, and even AI-powered search that can understand natural language queries and other specifications.
If we talk about a general website, it takes years to get traffic and customers. It will take a lot of effort to actually get the benefit of online presence. Whereas these listing websites give you your potential customers easily if you maintain your listing and update it from time to time.
At last there are numerous industries that are getting immense benefit from listing websites like tour and travel businesses, real estate, second hand goods, cars, educational institutes, job portals and others. All these industries and their potential customers gather on a single page where the company provides the listing along with details and a customer searches for the thing he needs to purchase. He can compare prices, functions, quality, area, location etc at one platform.
For example- Tour and travel websites like make my trip provides all the hotel, flight, holiday packages, trains information etc of the different listers on a single page. Now a customer can visit the listing website, filter his search, add his specifications and get results. He can even compare the prices easily and choose the most affordable one. For companies, they get the most potential audience who is at the last stage of making a purchase. Companies got the chance to stand out of the crowd by presenting their business in the best possible way.
Solutions we offer for listing website designing
We provide various solutions for listing website designing that can make it more attractive and convenient to visitors. Some of the solutions we offer are-
- Seamless ajax filtering
- Fully customisable filters for every field
- Google Maps to ease local reach
- Ratings and Reviews
- Dynamically populated content
- Image and video uploads
- Promotions and bookmarks
- Direct messages
- Contact Forms
- Instant Auto suggestions
- Exact and broad match search
- Filter by price, location, open now and recents
- Near me(Can define radius or area)
- One time subscription
- Offering coupons and discounts to join
- Emotion ratings(emojis)
- New message indicator
- Adjust booking slot duration
- Add tickets(external url)
- Online food delivery
- CTA buttons like buy now, call now, visit website, send an email etc.
Different earning models for listing websites
Appointment booking– It allows users to to book and schedule consultation and appointments with doctors, lawyers, counselors etc. Our listing website allows you to schedule the bookings by selecting date and time on the calendar.
Event management booking – This feature allows users to plan and organize events, seminars, webinars etc through an online platform. You can do bulk booking, fix the number of seats, book webinars etc for the event.
Subscription Based– Websites can charge users a fee for access to certain features or to see more detailed information about a listing. It asks users to purchase monthly or yearly subscriptions to access advanced features.
Commission/ Flat amount on Conversion – In commission based model, our listing website earns a certain percentage of the total booking or sale value as commission. Whereas in Flat amount on conversion, the website charges a fixed amount called fee for each booking or listing.
Listing Position Filling – In this model, the listing website reserves the top 5-6 positions on the listings and businesses have to pay some fees. These positions are often more visible to users and are more likely to generate leads or sales.
Third party advertising methods(Sponsored ads) – Our listing website offers advertising space to businesses and charges a fee for each click or impression. You can get numerous leads from display ads placed on our listing website.
Lead Distribution Model – In this model the leads or potential customers are distributed, among sales representatives. Basically we offer a certain number of leads at a fixed amount of money to the listors. For example 1 lead for 100 rs or 50 leads for 5000 rs.
Adsense – You can run display ads on our listing website and get a good amount of leads. In return for these leads you will have to pay a certain amount of money per lead.