Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 58th 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, 57th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-3-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):
- #9 – My About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 1 place from last week at #8)
- #22 – My videos on Vimeo (down 11 places from last week at #11)
- #50 – @BookWormLaser on Twitter (down 19 places from last week at #31)
- #53 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (down 4 places from last week at #49)
- #54 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Pinterest (down 2 places from last week at #52)
A check at Google Images showed my picture at #5 and a total of 10 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)
- #11 – My Facebook profile (up 1 place from last week at #12)
- #15 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (down 1 place from last week at #14)
- #19 – My profile on BrandYourself (up 15 places from last week at #34)
- #20 – My profile on 48Days.Net (up 12 places from last week at #32)
This week I’m at #2 on Bing. Overall, my top 5 results increased 27 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 #7 and a total of 5 occurrences in the top 100 images.
Strategies for 1st
This week I tried to do a few minor tweaks to see what worked the best. One thing I did was to add my name to the About page URL. For weeks, the top link was the Alan Reeves Tag page on this site. Since that change was made, the About page is now the top link. Doing a check a few days later showed the About page at #6 although it has dropped to #9 for today.
Also, Bing was very kind this week and all of my top 5 results were in the top 20. It seems that the work on the linked pages has been working. I’m up over 200 tagged pages. Most have been found by adding quotes around my name and adding a keyword. My LinkedIn profile is already at #3 but in the top 5 results, none of my content shows up. Still gotta work on that but hey, at least it’s progress.
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 #9 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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