Ken's Sandbox

The battery in the battery backup for our fiber connection has failed. Comspan will be replacing it tomorrow (Thurs June 24th) at about 1:30 pm. RealWorld, Assessor Tax data, idx et al will all be down for several minutes while they work on it.

Update: The  Comspan Tech has come and gone. Connection was down for [...]

A little over a year ago, I started running ads on the RealWorld Real Estate web site. Just two spots, one vertical ad on the home page and another horizontal ad at the bottom of most site pages. Over the first year these two ad slots were displayed slightly more than a million times (a [...]

Over the last couple of years twitter has become one of the mot popular social media phenomenon in the history of the web. I know several agents who have twitter accounts but have not seen them using it much for business. I just ran across this article which is one of the best discussions of [...]

I get asked a lot about search engine optimization (getting your site ranked high in the search engines). I just found this blog post and a cheat sheet that covers the basics very well. Read to the bottom as some of the comments are very good. I’ll definately be using the cheat sheet as a [...]

Earlier this summer I won a free pass for two for a Jerry’s Rogue Jetboat trip up the Rogue River in a golf tournament. We took the 80 mile trip to Agnes last summer and it was great fun.

Until now I have held onto the hope that we would be able to do it again [...]

I live outside the city of Bandon and our water source is a shallow well. Over the past 6 to 8 weeks we have been having some water quality issues. For the most part a little sediment in the toilet bowels and occasional smell to the water has been inconvenient but tolerable. I visited the [...]

Saw this post on ActiveRain that asks (and answers) this. Some good comments about what agents are doing that are working.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/1088988/are-realtor-com-enhancements-worth-the-money-

I just ran across a couple of blog posts here and here about a NAR decision that Google is scraping listing data from agent’s idx sites.

According to the post:

“Recently, my website was reported for allowing the MLS data on my website to be indexed, which led the Indianapolis Metropolitan Board of REALTORS®, (MIBOR), to issue a [...]