Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 117th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here and last week’s here (116).   Below are the results as of Sunday, 4-20-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #14 - Alan Reeves on Twitter (up 8 spots from last week at #22)
• #21 – This site, BlueCapra.com (up 2 spots from last week at #23)
• #25 - Alan Reeves on Vimeo (up 2 spots from last week at #27)
• #30 - Book Worm Laser & Design on Dailymotion (down 1 spot from last week at #29)
• #40 – Alan Reeves on Quora (up 15 spots from last week at #55)

This week I’m at #22 on Google.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 26 spots with 3 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 8 times in the top 100 search results. Continue Reading…

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 116th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here and last week’s here (115).   Below are the results as of Sunday, 4-13-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #22 – This site, BlueCapra.com (down 8 spots from last week at #14)
• #23 - My Pinterest profile (no change from last week at #23)
• #27 - Alan Reeves on Vimeo (up 1 spot from last week at #28)
• #29 - Book Worm Laser & Design on Dailymotion (no change from last week at #29)
• #55 - Book Worm Laser & Design on Flickr (down 24 spots from last week at #31)

This week I’m at #22 on Google.  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 31 spots with 2 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 7 times in the top 100 search results. One of the few bright sides to this disappointing showing was at #58 where a page on another site of mine, Scan This Guide, showed up for the first time.  If you are interested in QR codes and want to learn more, take a look. Continue Reading…

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 115th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here and last week’s here (114).   Below are the results as of Sunday, 4-6-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #14 - Alan Reeves on Twitter (up 10 spots from last week at #24)
• #23 - My Pinterest profile (up 5 spots from last week at #28)
• #28 - Alan Reeves on Vimeo (up 1 spot from last week at #29)
• #29 – My About page on this site (up 5 spots from last week at #34)
• #31 - Book Worm Laser & Design on Dailymotion (up 4 spots from last week at #35)

This week I’m at #14 on Google (better, but not good…).  Overall, my top 5 results increased 25 spots with 2 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 9 times in the top 100 search results. Continue Reading…

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 114th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here and last week’s here (113).   Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-30-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #24 - My Pinterest profile (down 12 spots from last week at #12)
• #28 - This site, BlueCapra.com (down 11 spots from last week at #17)
• #29 - Alan Reeves on Vimeo (down 7 spots from last week at #22)
• #34 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Dailymotion (down 8 spots from last week at #26)
• #35 - My Flickr page for Book Worm Laser & Design (down 5 spots from last week at #30)

This week I’m at #24 on Google (what the heck???).  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 43 spot with 1 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 8 times in the top 100 search results. Continue Reading…

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 113th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here and last week’s here (112).   Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-23-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #12 - Alan Reeves on Twitter (up 1 spot from last week at #13)
• #17 - This site, BlueCapra.com (down 2 spots from last week at #15)
• #22 - My Pinterest profile (up 1 spot from last week at #23)
• #26 - Alan Reeves on Vimeo (down 1 spot from last week at #25)
• #30 – My Flickr page for Book Worm Laser & Design (down 1 spot from last week at #29)

This week I’m at #12 on Google.  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 1 spot with 3 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 10 times in the top 100 search results. Continue Reading…