Washington Real Estate Blog

Viewing the Google Analytics reports of our web statistics is my first task of every day.  A valuable feature is comparing the current time frame to the past.  Specifically, I like to compare the current 4 week period with that of the previous month.  I.E. today i'm looking at comparative reports...

I just received a nice note from Rick Turner regarding my comment on his blog post about the age of domain names and I thought this is valuable information to share.Both Google and Yahoo are "Registrars" entitling them to use the historical information of your domain name.  So they know if your d...

Earlier today I commented on a blog that we're all "feeding the 800 pound gorilla" as we continue to author content and post it on our AR blogs.  Meaning that we're contributing to AR's successful search engine rankings and helping them create a very strong web presence that is beyond our individ...

We've been counting the remaining days of summer vacation since school let out in June.  But lately we're getting inquiries from around the state so my mind is cluttered with Washington geography.  I had never heard of Kalama, Twisp, Clallam Bay, Gifford, etc.  My wife (a WA native) is patient wi...

Following up on Part 1, Part 2, Part 3a and Part3bFinishing up on the Page Analysis section of Google's Webmaster Tools.  The thrid part of the "Page Analysis" is a priority breakdown of keywords that Google sees in external links to your site (from part 3a).  Your content was broken down in Part...

Following up on Part 1, Part 2 and Part3aOk ... more on Google's Webmaster Tools and how Google builds a picture of your website.   The second part of the "Page Analysis" is a priority breakdown of keywords that Google sees in your content.  Again I'm using our site at http://www.nwrealty.com/ as...

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 th...

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 wha...

If they haven't already, your ISP vendor will soon announce their conformance with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).  For non-techies, an IP address is a unique number assigned to each device connected to the internet ... like computers and cell phones.  Our domain names (url) are just aliases ...

The City of Edgewood is accepting written comments from the public regarding the proposed short plat of 1.07 acres at 3117 108th Avenue East.  The property currently contains two single family homes and a barn.Any interested party is entitled to comment on the proposal.  Public comments will be a...