Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 56th 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, 55th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 2-17-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):
- #7 – The tag page for Alan Reeves on BlueCapra.com, with picture (no change from last week at #7)
- #24 – My videos on Vimeo (down 10 places from last week at #14)
- #40 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (up 9 places from last week at #49)
- #51 – @BookWormLaser on Twitter (up 2 places from last week at #53)
- #66 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Pinterest (down 12 places from last week at #54)
A check at Google Images showed my picture at #4 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:
- #2 – My LinkedIn profile (no change from last week at #2)
- #12 – My Facebook profile (down 1 place from last week at #11)
- #14 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (up 2 places from last week at #16)
- #34 – My Quora profile (down 2 places from last week at #32)
- #50 – The About page on my Quora profile (down 17 places from last week at #33)
This week I’m at #2 on Bing. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 18 places with 3 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 6 times in the top 100 search results.
A check at Bing Images showed my picture at #3 and a total of 5 occurrences in the top 100 images.
Strategies for 1st
This week I was able to comment on about 3 posts. My Bing Tagged pages have increased to 144. It’s been a slow week otherwise. Most of my time was spent tweaking my site and doing a little business research. Not much else to report. I plan on doing a little keyword and back link research to see if I can find a few areas to focus my attention on. If you have heard of the 80/20 rule, you will understand; I will be looking for the 20% of the back links that are giving 80% of the results.
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 #2 on 2-26-12 and to #7 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 next week is the week I reach the 1st spot on Google and 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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