internet: Free IDX Search Tools (feedback request) - 05/27/08 05:07 PM
We're reviewing the usability of a free generic version of our IDX search tools located at www.nwrealty.com/washington prior to official release later this week. Due to the increase of Buyers seeking owner terms we've included easy access to listings that offer "Lease/Purchase" and "Owner Financing" options. These are provided via buttons at the top right … (0 comments)
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internet: Washington top performing real estate markets Dec 07 - Jan 08 - 01/12/08 01:48 PM
This report represents our mid-January update compared with numbers from our mid-December update of our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State. These are the markets where we feature the most listings and rankings are impacted by where the most buyers are currently looking for on-line real estate information.
Top Ten Washington Counties ...Buyer attention continues to returned to … (1 comments)
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internet: Washington top performing real estate markets - 12/17/07 02:36 PM
This report represents our early December update compared with numbers from our late November update of our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State. These are the markets where we feature the most listings and also where the most buyers are currently looking for on-line real estate information.
Top Ten Washington Counties ...Buyer attention continues to returned … (2 comments)
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internet: Real Estate eFlyer Complaints - 12/04/07 12:25 PM
The NWMLS recently advised its members "be selective when sending out emails regarding your listings to other members and agents" noting numerous complaints from members receiving unwanted emails from other members regarding listings. Most complaints are from members receiving emails about listings out of their service area.
An example of abuse is an agent from … (16 comments)
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internet: Washington real estate top performing markets (Late-Nov 07) - 11/29/07 09:00 PM
I'm back on schedule for our bi-monthly market updates. This represents our November end of month update compared with numbers from our mid month update of our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State. It indicates the markets where we feature the most listings and also where the most buyers are currently looking for on-line real estate … (4 comments)
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internet: Internet Connection Troubleshooting - 11/25/07 04:59 PM
We commonly receive calls from customers having problems connecting to the web or email even though that is part of their ISP's support role (we're just easier to call). The usual symptoms are "connection" errors returned by Outlook or "cannot find" errors returned by Internet Explorer.
Before navigating your ISP's support call center … (7 comments)
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internet: Washington real estate top performing featured listings markets (Nov 07) - 11/16/07 09:47 PM
I meant to update with this post about two weeks ago. This represent our November mid month update to previous posts regarding our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State.
The lists below compares real estate activity from October 18th thru November 15th 2007. It indicates the markets where we feature the most listings and also … (3 comments)
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internet: Google Page Rank Finally Updated - What's your blog's PR? - 10/30/07 03:20 PM
After six months Google has finally released the update of its "Page Rank (PR)" data. This is but one factor used to determine your website's position in search engine results. Since starting this blog in July of this year I've monitored numerous indicators of direct value to our Washington real estate website. … (28 comments)
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internet: Washington real estate nwRealty top performing featured listings markets (Oct 07) - 10/29/07 03:44 PM
This is our end of month update to a previous posts regarding our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State for our web site at www.nwrealty.com.
The lists below compares real estate activity for the months of September and October 2007. This indicates the markets where we feature the most listings and also where the … (1 comments)
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internet: Washington real estate top markets for featured listings (Sept 07) - 10/01/07 06:12 PM
This is our end of month update to a previous post regarding our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State for our web site at www.nwrealty.com.
After adding new Washington agents and brokers to our network, our number of feature real estate listings has increased to over 500 residential, condo and vacant land listings. … (6 comments)
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internet: MSN / Live Search Guidelines for successful indexing - 09/26/07 01:51 PM
In recent posts I've mentioned how MSN's new Live Search is gaining a greater share of total web searches ... apparently causing the recent loss of Yahoo's market share. This recent surge of growth prompted me to again look for their "webmaster guidelines" and this morning I found success at this … (7 comments)
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internet: Has Google Started Dancing? - 09/24/07 02:18 PM
Over the past several days I've noticed some dramatic changes in Google's search engine results. Some old reliable "Washington Real Estate" place holder sites seem to have dropped into oblivion and others are bouncing in and out of the first page results. This is typically referred to as the "Google Dance" … (9 comments)
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internet: nwRealty - top markets for featured Washington real estate listings - 09/18/07 04:04 PM
We're adding new Washington agents and brokers to our network and increasing the number of feature real estate listings from about 300 to just over 500 listings. We're still in the beta testing stage and not yet storing results in our database. The list below represents real estate activity for the … (0 comments)
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internet: Encourage your associates to author profiles - 09/14/07 05:39 PM
As a matter of routine, I compose a press release for every new member of our real estate network. Just like blogging, this takes time and discipline.
If you recall, the standard format for a press release include sections about the respective parties in the announcement. I was quite frustrated that I … (2 comments)
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internet: Listing eFlyer "SpamVertising" (new word for your vocabulary) - 09/14/07 05:04 PM
Recently some new companies have begun distributing Listing Flyers by email. While claiming their email advertisements are not SPAM, they quickly site compliance with ...
"USC 1618 Title III by the 105 US Congress, Section 301, Paragraph (a)(2)" This law passed after corporate lobbyists made sure it is OK to send Unsolicited … (15 comments)
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internet: No Time Off for Spammers & Spoofers - 09/04/07 12:42 PM
I monitored more online Buyer inquiries than expected this Labor Day weekend but they were mixed with a new surge of online spam. The Bank Of America ID thieves are back at it again, sending generic authentic looking messages that prompt you to update account information.
Spammers are also submitting their … (7 comments)
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internet: Google & Yahoo won't wait for "Emergency Maintenance" - 09/01/07 01:09 PM
If you own a website it is inevitable that sooner or later you will receive notice from your tech provider that they are conducting "Emergency Maintenance". This is caused by an infinite number of things ... software upgrades/patches, router upgrades, hardware failure, etc.
These notices will always minimize the impact of your "down time" … (3 comments)
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internet: How many sites do I need? - 09/01/07 12:48 PM
We have many broker/REALTOR customers with numerous blogs and websites in addition to the sites that we manage for them. Every once in a while I'll catch some little detail (photo, phone, email, etc.) that needs correcting ... and when I call/email them, they share how difficult it is for them to maintain … (30 comments)
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internet: Where's Googlebot? - 08/30/07 11:27 AM
For the past couple of weeks it has become obvious that Google has dramatically slowed the frequency that it is crawling our sites. But I haven't notices any real cause for alarm ... search rankings, saturation and link popularity are all holding or improving.
This isn't limited to our main site at … (11 comments)
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internet: "AR Sponsors" - who's advertising - 08/29/07 10:06 PM
I've seen several text and banner ads on Activerain and I've grown curious ... how it is working out for the Sponsors? How are you tracking results ... click throughs or tracking URL's? Is it effectively reaching your target audience? Making your phone ring? Making your email chime? Or, am I jumping the gun … (12 comments)
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internet: Screening Leads - "No I won't work with you" - 08/29/07 11:24 AM
Yep ... I've already had one of "those" calls this morning. We all have these stories ... Welcome to Monday Part III.
We generate leads for our agent/broker advertisors from all around Washington and late last night a web lead arrived for some Gifford real estate located on Lake Roosevelt in Stevens County, WA. … (20 comments)
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internet: Dawg days of summer. - 08/25/07 12:55 PM
Tracking statistics is part of my daily routine and graphing on Google Analytics tells me that people are out for their last summer fling before school starts back up. We're still up about 3% over the corresponding 4 week period in July and weekend traffic is still comparable. But the mid-week … (1 comments)
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internet: Do I need a logo? - 08/25/07 12:44 PM
This question is often asked when starting up your first website. The answer ... No, if your an agent and Yes, if your a brokerage or team. I firmly believe that agents should brand their photo and use it like a logo. But brokerages and teams need more.
Developing a logo … (7 comments)
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internet: Be Clear about Your Marketing Message - 08/25/07 12:26 PM
Many agents and brokers have asked me how to get started and where to begin with their online marketing.
I always suggest that they maintain consistency with tangible items that they've already invested a great deal of time and money to create. Like their logos, mailers, print ads, CMA presentations, etc.
Before you creating out-reach promotional materials, you've got to clearly … (2 comments)
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internet: Cyber Suicide - 08/25/07 11:43 AM
The long time fundamental element of "Link Content" has become mission critical because Google, Yahoo and MSN don't trust the integrity of sites anymore.
These are consequences of SEO (black hat) developers that have ruthlessly manipulated every possible loophole to dominate search engine rankings. So Google (followed by Yahoo & MSN) employed the standard … (7 comments)
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internet: Reciprocal Links - A Waste of Effort - 08/24/07 02:07 PM
The SEO rules have changed significantly this year. Google, Yahoo and MSN have never really approved of cross linking schemes and have recently tightened things up quite a bit.
Still of some value, reciprocal links provide SEO-targeting-link-titles. And if the page linking to you has a higher PR (Google Page Rank) than the page where you reciprocate with a link … (10 comments)
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internet: Google Webmaster Tools (Part 3a) - 08/17/07 11:28 AM
Following up on Part 1 and Part 2
Another valuable part of Google's webmaster tools is its "page analysis", which has three parts that I'll cover in three different posts. The Page Analysis gives you the vision of how Google sees your website through the eyes of "googlebot" (Google's software that … (6 comments)
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internet: Anyone attending "Search Engine Strategies 2007" - 08/17/07 10:58 AM
One of my disappointments this year is not being able to attend the Search Engine Strategies 2007 event next week in San Jose. There are keynote speakers from Google and Ask.com and other Silicon Valley gurus that I would love to hear.
So if you're attending, please share the juicy tidbits of … (6 comments)
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internet: Google Webmaster Tools (part 1) - 08/06/07 12:52 PM
Whether you're website is DIY or professionally maintained, Google offers a ton of free information about your site at http://www.google.com/webmasters/. You'll have to create an account and confirm ownership of your site, but that is a very easy process.
Once logged in, you're presented with a diagnostic summary letting you know the … (6 comments)
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internet: PPC (follow up) - 07/24/07 06:24 PM
Thanks for all the comments and emails on my previous post regarding PPC bargain shopping.
I've worked with PPC advertising since it was first introduced by Overture (now Yahoo) and have found that Google delivers the best results. About 90% of traffic for our site at http://www.nwrealty.com/ originates from organic (free) search results … (6 comments)
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internet: Whois "More Likely To Buy Real Estate" - 07/23/07 10:41 PM
A couple years ago ComScore Networks announced that MSN searchers were 48% more likely to buy products online than the average web user .... likewise Google searchers were 42% more likely to buy. One suggested reason was that MSN and Google users have more money.
A lot of interesting demographic information as it related … (4 comments)
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internet: 2007 Web Visitor Trend - 07/23/07 02:45 PM
As always, I monitor web traffic stats daily. This morning I took a long look at agrigated stats for usage of a little over 100 of our domains serving up MLS listings to the Western Washington market. This is a rather well defined market so I'm curious how other markets compare.
Dec 26, 2006 … (2 comments)
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internet: Cool Tool - 07/17/07 01:25 PM
While reviewing traffic logs this morning I stumbled upon a nifty report provided by domaintools.com. I was actually a little disturbed to see how much information was compiled in one report. Anyway, it is an awsome tool for monitoring how your website stacks up against competitors. Example ... our site at nwRealty.com … (6 comments)
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internet: Zillow EZ Ads - 07/06/07 07:59 PM
Zillow's offer of 1000 ad impressions for $10 ($0.01 each) seemed worth a try so I signed up and targeted Ocean Shores, WA. The ad just finished running after one week and only delivered 2 visits to our site at http://www.nwrealty.com/ for what pencils out at $5 each.
Pay per click ads on Google and Yahoo have … (7 comments)
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