Ryland Taniguchi's (ryland4521) Blog

The hardest thing about improving your SEO rankings is getting other people to link to you. Why do you need links to your site? Because Google runs a Page Rank on your site based on how many links point to your site (and also how many links those sites have).  It's a popularity contest where the ...

Anyone who says they are a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert is probably not.  The search engines like Google change their algorithms so frequently that there is no way to predict SEO results accurately. SEOMoz, who is considered a world-wide authority on SEO, conducted a massive survey to ...

I'd say that about 95% of realtors use Craigslist for the majority of their advertising.   Most agents use the auto create Craigslist ads from software solutions such as Market Leader's Realty Generator, Point 2.0, etc.  Stop that practice today!  Why? Because thats what everyone is doing. Let me...

In search engine optimization, content is king and linking strategy is queen.  Search engines analyze linking to determine the popularity of your website.   Is reciprocal linking bad for my search engine optimization?  Search engines recognize that reciprocal linking is natural in the course of S...

The real estate community has been anxiously eager to learn all of the little tricks to get on the first page of those "longtail SEO keywords" (longtail meaning the less popular search terms that you focus your SEO campaigns on).  Some real estate marketing "gurus" have been teaching realtors how...

I’ve lived in Ballard for the last two years and there seems to be a steady flow of businesses coming and going.  Without the economic recession, that is not a surprise.  On my walk today, I found a few new businesses that recently came onto the Ballard scene. This restaurant is located close to ...

No one wants to get a real estate property solicitation on their Facebook page.  What you need to do is focus on the top 30 people per friend who maybe looking to buy or sell a home in the future.  Categorize them into hyper-local areas and build a Facebook list (https://www.facebook.com/bookmark...

In real estate marketing, your results equal your Skill plus your Efforts.  For realtors who close 2 to 4 transactions a year, marketing efforts amount to writing elaborate narrative on the MLS, taking decent photos, and posting on Craigslist.   Realtors who close 4 to 12 transactions a year spen...

Last Thanksgiving, I had volunteered at Amore Infusion to provide 5-star food to the homeless.  The food at this Belltown was some of the best Thanksgiving food that I have ever eaten.  To see the light on people’s faces highlighted the year 2011.   With those memories in mind, it is quite sad to...