Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. I hope everyone had a great Father’s Day. If you did not get a chance yesterday to tell your dad how much you appreciated him, take time to do that today. Some people no longer have that option.
This is the 125th 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 (124). Below are the results as of Sunday, 6-15-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):
- #1 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Pinterest (no change from last week at #1)
- #4 – Alan Reeves on Vimeo – laser engraving videos (down 1 spot from last week at #3)
- #5 – Alan Reeves on Dailymotion (down 1 spot from last week at #4)
- #13 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (up 1 spot from last week at #14)
- #17 – About me on this site, BlueCapra (up 18 spots from last week at #35)
This week I’m at #1 on Google. Overall, my top 5 results increased 17 spots with 4 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 11 times in the top 100 search results. A check at Google Images showed my picture at #16 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 page – (down 1 spot from last week at #4)
- #7 – Alan Reeves on Quora (down 1 spot from last week at #6)
- #12 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (up 1 spot from last week at #13)
- #17 – Alan Reeves on BrandYourself (down 3 spots from last week at #14)
- #20 – Alan Reeves on Google+ (down 2 spots from last week at #18)
This week I’m at #3 on Bing. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 6 spot 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 #39 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 back 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 what next week holds for Google and Bing.
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