Washington Real Estate Blog

General Overview ...San Juan County Washington was included in the Washington Territory in 1873.  Today, San Juan County is the smallest of 39 counties and consists of 176 Washington islands covering a 175 square mile Puget Sound real estate archipelago.  The Washington State Ferry System serves ...

The town of Friday Harbor was incorporated in 1909 and is located on the eastern shore of San Juan Island in a chain of Washington's islands in the northernmost area of Puget Sound.  Strategically situated between Canada's Vancouver Island and the Washington State mainland, Friday harbor's port a...

Spread the word to your peers that link exchanges are all but useless!  Many agents have posted linked text, banners or logos to the main page of their website in exchange for a listing link buried several pages deep in directory sites.  This arrangement may have been mutually beneficial a year o...

This was a new experience ... Yesterday, one of my parked domains was exploited in a dictionary SPAM attack targeting European email addresses.  I caught it rather early when hundreds of bounced SPAM notices were delivered to my live "catch-all" email account.  The subject lines' "failure notice"...

OK ... I'm fishing for feedback from you SEO types.  My concern is the potential "spammy" appearance of linked images.  The AR editing tools are excellent in facilitating image "alt" tags and link "titles".  The question in mind is "Is duplicating "alt tag" content in the link's "title tag" getti...

The stock market reacted positively to the FED's .50% cut in the Federal Fund's Rate ... at least momentarily.  And fixed mortgage rates actually went up for a short time before dropping slightly below where they were when the drop was announced.  The only really positive thing that I've heard ab...

The Google Page Rank (PR) assigned to your real estate profile and blog is a major indicator of your blog's value and rewards your efforts of posting relevant articles.  In addition to AR and other real estate blogs, I also monitor several Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimizat...

This is for guys like me that don't normally think about decorative vignetting ... Remember to change your staging palettes along with the seasons.  Since fall is in the air it's a good idea to emphasize earth tones and accent living spaces with strong shades of red, yellow, green and brown.Some ...

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...

Linda Futral quoted an NAR report this morning that included - REALTORS® received "four inquires from their Web site accounting for about three percent  of their business".  This prompts me to ask "What results (value) are you realizing from your real estate web site?"Does your site account for m...