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Pat alerted us to a new Page Rank update. I really do not pay much attention to the PR bar anymore. At best it is a glimpse into the past about 4 or 5 months. And at worse it is a fabrication. (I tend to go with the latter). Simply put in an ungeek way, Page Rank is the relative importance of your page. In the old days it was hugely responsible for big SERPS in Google. Today, many...

If you have read any of HouseBlogger you know I am a bit of a curmudgeon on the whole Web 2.0 thing and Social Media and Blogs. This seems hypocritical I know. But, I am not against them, just the hype around these web 2.0 entities. In fact, these platforms get lots of search engine spider activity and thus should be part of a marketing strategy. But these things are just words to...

RISMedia’s announced its 20th Annual Power Broker Survey. Interestingly, the total number of transactions down from 2,754,618 in 2006 to 2,322,210 in 2007. On average, real estate firms did over 1,100 less transactions in 2007 compared to 2006. Total sales volume in 2007 was down more than $100 billion, from $855,755,959,352 in ‘06 to $749,201,552,294 in ‘07. The report Key...

Lyris ISP Deliverability Report (PDF), nearly 1 of every 5 permission-based email messages sent to U.S.-based ISPs gets automatically junk mail folder. That means slightly more than 76 percent of invited email successfully makes it to the inbox. 

I just found the clip that I referenced in an earlier post on the market bottoming in Orange County and LA.

I know I know....but doesn't it seem like some of the bad news is starting to get crowded out by some of the positives lately. Just last night I heard on KABC TV in LA that there is lots of proof that LA and Orange County real estate have hit bottom. I looked all over for the video but cannot find it anywhere online. Meanwhile Zogby Aol just released a poll showing that over 50% of...

This is a snippet from a recent email thread I had with a UK journalist.  I cut her part out as she never did give me permission to print her part: First EMail reply by me: Popularity by whom? On readers : No I don't and I wouldn't trust the (blog) stats anyway. I believe that the majority of people do not know that they are reading a blog. And with some of the new designs that I am...

Google offers a plethora of great tools for Webmasters. But why? Data Many of us webmasters love Google's "help", while others see their tools as an unwelcome intrusion. More specifically, an unwelcome look into your website's inner workings and your users behavior. Some skeptics even go so far as to call these tools "spyware". WOWzie. Harsh words indeed. However, understand whenever...

"It's now clear that we have entered what we anticipate will be a mild recession, running through the first half of this year, and there are substantial downside risks to this economic scenario," said David Seiders, of the National Association of Home Builders, in a statement today.What a load. Seriously, I found this story over at Inman. Recession or no recession. Who cares? Sellers...