Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 112th 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 (111). Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-16-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):
- #13 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (up 4 spots from last week at #17)
- #15 – This site, BlueCapra.com (up 5 spots from last week at #20)
- #23 – My Pinterest profile (down 1 spot from last week at #22)
- #25 – Alan Reeves on Vimeo (up 2 spots from last week at #27)
- #29 – My laser engraving videos on DailyMotion (up 1 spot from last week at #30)
This week I’m at #13 on Google. Overall, my top 5 results increased 11 spots with 4 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 12 times in the top 100 search results.
A check at Google Images showed my picture at #8 and a total of 16 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:
- #4 – My LinkedIn page – (no change from last week at #4)
- #5 – My About.Me page (no change from last week at #5)
- #7 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (down 1 spot from last week at #6)
- #9 – My Facebook profile (down 1 spot from last week at #8)
- #10 – My Quora profile (up 5 spots from last week at #15)
This week I’m at #4 on Bing. Overall, my top 5 results increased 3 place with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. Amazingly, all of the top 5 results are in the top 10 (not too shabby…). As a whole, I showed up 16 times in the top 100 search results.
A check at Bing Images showed my picture at #18 and a total of 8 occurrences in the top 100 images.
Summary – The search for Alan Reeves
I’ve been able to make good progress since the start, going from #91 on 1-25-12 to #1 on 7-14-13 and to #13 today. I have learned a lot about improving search ranking and I have made a lot of mistakes, but it’s a learning process. Stay tuned to see what next week holds for Google and Bing.