Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 116th 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 (115). Below are the results as of Sunday, 4-13-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):
- #22 – This site, BlueCapra.com (down 8 spots from last week at #14)
- #23 – My Pinterest profile (no change from last week at #23)
- #27 – Alan Reeves on Vimeo (up 1 spot from last week at #28)
- #29 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Dailymotion (no change from last week at #29)
- #55 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Flickr (down 24 spots from last week at #31)
This week I’m at #22 on Google. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 31 spots with 2 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 7 times in the top 100 search results. One of the few bright sides to this disappointing showing was at #58 where a page on another site of mine, Scan This Guide, showed up for the first time. If you are interested in QR codes and want to learn more, take a look. A check at Google Images showed my picture at #21 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:
- #3 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (up 3 spots from last week at #5)
- #5 – My LinkedIn page – (up 1 spot from last week at #6)
- #7 – My About.Me page (up 1 spot from last week at #8)
- #11 – My Facebook profile (down 2 spots from last week at #9)
- #12 – Alan Reeves on YouTube (up 3 spots from last week at #15)
This week I’m at #3 on Bing. Overall, my top 5 results increased 6 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. Interesting enough, I showed up 10 times in the top 25 capturing 40% of those searches. As a whole, I showed up 19 times in the top 100 search results, which I think is a new high. A check at Bing Images showed my picture at #37 and a total of 7 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 #22 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.
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