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1st on Google – Week 23

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1st on Google - Alan Reeves - Reputation.comWelcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 23rd update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 22th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 7-1-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

This week I’m at #4.  The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #30.  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 16 places with 2 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places, down from last week.  As a whole, I showed up 9 times in the top 100 search results, a drop of 5 places.

Image Search

A check at Google Images showed my picture at #2 and a total of 6 occurrences in the top 100 images.

Cornering the market – from Google to Bing

In addition to searching Google, I have been checking Bing results for my name, Alan Reeves (click here to do your own Bing search for Alan Reeves).  Here are the top 5 Bing results:

  • #2 – My LinkedIn profile (no change from last week at #2)
  • #19 – The About page on BlueCapra.com  (down 2 places from last week at #17)
  • #21 – My profile on Quora (down 1 place from last week at #20)
  • #40 – This website, BlueCapra.com (down 18 place from last week at #22)
  • #69 – My Quora feed with my recent activity (up 7 places from last week at #76)

Overall, I showed up 6 times in the top 100 search results on Bing.  My first occurrence was at #2 (compared with Google at #5) and overall, my results decreased 39 places.

I did manage to show up at #5 for images on Bing, and overall, had 3 in the top 100 images.

Strategies for 1st

This week I was able to add another linked page via the Bing Linked Pages site which makes 9 pages I have found.  Still not sure if the linked pages help, but I guess they can’t hurt.

While listening to the Freakonomics Podcast, I heard about a new site that had sponsored the podcast, Reputation.com.  It is a way to monitor your online reputation, tracking the good and the bad.  It is free to use but has premium features that help get more exposure of fix negative information.  I signed up for an account late last week so it will  most likely be the middle of this week until any results are seen.

The site wanted as much personal information as you would want to give it, but I am still weary of what personal information I post online.  I decided to stick with the info that anyone could find with just a little digging.  I’ll be checking back in the next few days to see what they have found and how it can help.

Summary – The search for Alan Reeves

I’ve been able to make a good amount of progress so far, going from #91 on 1-25-12 to #3 on 3-11-12 and back to #4 today. I have learned a lot about improving search ranking and I have made a lot of mistakes, but this is a learning process.  I hope to make significant progress by next week and regain my past progress.  Stay tuned to see if next week is the week I reach the 1st spot on Google and Bing.  If you have any suggestions to get me there, leave a comment and let me know.

Check out next week’s update – Week 24

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