Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. You may notice a change in the title; I thought it might be a good time to rebrand this journey a bit. Stay tuned as it evolves.
This is the 79th 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, 78th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 7-28-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):
- #1 – My Vizify profile – (no change from last week at #1)
- #3 – My Blogger page (up 1 place from last week at #4)
- #4 – My Pinterest profile (up 1 place from last week at #5)
- #13 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (up 1 place from last week at #14)
- #15 – My About page on BlueCapra (up 1 place from last week at #16)
A check at Google Images showed my picture at #11 and a total of 8 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:
- #5 – My LinkedIn profile with picture (up 1 place from last week at #6)
- #13 – My profile on 48Days.NET (up 1 place from last week at #14)
- #16 – My BrandYourself profile (no change from last week at #16)
- #19 – This site, BlueCapra.com (up 2 places from last week at #21)
- #24 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (up 1 place from last week at #25)
This week I’m at #5 on Bing. Overall, my top 5 results increased 5 place with 5 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 Bing Images showed my picture at #7 and a total of 6 occurrences in the top 100 images.
Strategies for 1st
This week is two in a row at the #1 spot. I’ve been concentrating on improving my Pinterest profiles (a personal one and one for Book Worm Laser & Design) and updating all my business profiles to include a new profile picture (as seen in the Google images results screen shot). Seems to have worked as the logo showed up about three times. Slow and steady wins the race…
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 #1 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 if I can hold on to the 1st spot on Google and and reach 1st on Bing.
If you only had time to do 1 thing to help your site or name rank better in Google, what would it be? Leave me a comment and let me know.
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