Last August, we began the job of reworking The Harper Team website to upgrade it to Web 2.0. We added a blog and had a custom theme designed for us to set us apart from every other real estate website.

We have received calls, emails and IM messages complimenting us on the design (including this recent one on Posh'd) and asking for the contact info of the designer.

The designer is Devon Harper, John's son. He has an art degree and is an IT (Information Technology) person. You can email him if you want to contact him for a project.

We took this site live on Nov. 20, 2006. Here is a look at our traffic for Dec. '06 through Apr, '07.

You see how the traffic has grown in the last five months; the clusters of where the traffic is coming from; and the top 25 referring sources for traffic into our site. As you can see our blog is bringing in the traffic from the search engines. Our efforts on using Craiglist for our listings is paying off big time. Our friends at Active Rain, TransparentRE, TrueGotham, BlueRoof, and the PhoenixRealEstateGuy are sending us traffic and hopefully we are returning the favor.

Our efforts have resulted in The Harper Team site being one of the most recognized and quoted sources of local real estate information in the East Bay.