Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 24rd 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, 23th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 7-8-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):
- #3 – My LinkedIn profile (up 1 place from last week at #4)
- #32 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 19 places from last week at #13)
- #36 – @bookwormlaser on Twitter (up 6 places from last week at #30)
- #42 – This website, BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 8 places from last week at #36)
- #44 – My profile on Quora (down 6 places from last week at #38)
Image Search
A check at Google Images showed my picture at #3 and a total of 4 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)
- #17 – The About page on BlueCapra.com (no change from last week at #17)
- #19 – My profile on Quora (up 2 places from last week at #21)
- #72 – My Quora feed with my recent activity (down 32 places from last week at #40)
- #95 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (down 26 places from last week at #69)
Overall, I showed up 6 times in the top 100 search results on Bing. My first occurrence was at #2 (compared with Google at #3) and overall, my results decreased 56 places.
I did manage to show up at #7 for images on Bing, and overall, had 3 in the top 100 images.
Strategies for 1st
The past several weeks have not been that great for progress. This week, I answered a few questions on Quora, found another link on Bing’s linked pages, published a few posts, but haven’t really made any traction in a while. One of the ideas I will try this week is to find some blogs to comment and contribute to. I have an enormous backlog in my RSS reader that I need to go through.
Everyday, there is great content being created. If you are not reading at least part of that content, you are missing out.
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.
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