Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 93rd 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, 92nd Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 11-3-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):
- #3 – My Pinterest profile (up 10 spots from last week at #13)
- #14 – My Vizify profile (no change from last week at #14)
- #19 – My Vimeo profile (down 3 spots from last week at #16)
- #20 – My About page on BlueCapra (down 3 spots from last week at #17)
- #24 – My Blogspot page (up 1 spot from last week at #25)
This week I’m back on the first page at #3. Overall, my top 5 results increased 5 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 13 times in the top 100 search results.
A check at Google Images showed my picture at #5 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:
- #5 – My Facebook profile (no change from last week at #5)
- #7 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (down 1 spot from last week at #6)
- #9 – My LinkedIn profile with picture (up 1 spot from last week at #10)
- #13 – My BrandYourself profile (up 6 spots from last week at #19)
- #15 – My Quora page (up 10 spots from last week at #25)
This week I’m at #5 on Bing. Overall, my top 5 results increased 16 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 13 times in the top 100 search results.
A check at Bing Images showed my picture at #18 and a total of 6 occurrences in the top 100 images.
Strategies for 1st
This week was a slow one with only 1 comment and not much else. I’ve been working on a number of larger posts for this site and for my QR code site, ScanThisGuide.com. The post for this site features a little bit of coding.
Just out of curiosity, if you had a bit of code that would change the link every time the page was visited (either through a web page link, QR code, or some other method), would that be interesting? Leave me a comment and let me know.
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 #3 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 retain the 1st spot on Google and get back to 1st on Bing.
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