Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.This is the 59th 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, 58th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-10-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):
- #8 – My About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 1 place from last week at #9)
- #14 – My videos on Vimeo (up 6 places from last week at #22)
- #45 – @BookWormLaser on Twitter (up 5 places from last week at #50)
- #62 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (down 9 places from last week at #53)
- #72 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Pinterest (down 18 places from last week at #54)
A check at Google Images showed my picture at #13 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:
- #3 – My LinkedIn profile (down 1 place from last week at #2)
- #12 – My Facebook profile (down 1 place from last week at #11)
- #15 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (no change from last week at #15)
- #20 – My profile on 48Days.Net (up 1 place from last week at #19)
- #22 – My profile on 48Days.Net (again???) (down 2 places from last week at #20)
This week I’m at #2 on Bing. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 3 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 10 times in the top 100 search results.
A check at Bing Images showed my picture at #8 and a total of 4 occurrences in the top 100 images.
Strategies for 1st
This week’s progress consisted of about 4 blog comments and a few questions answered on Quora. This is the second week that the About page on this site has broken the front page. Analyzing the first page of results in Google, I find the following:
- The first 3 results are from big sites (Wikipedia, Facebook, and LinkedIn)
- The 4th and 6th results are exact match domains (alanreeveslaw.com and alan-reeves.co.uk)
- #8 (this site) is the only one with Google Authorship and a picture
The PageRank of all these sites are pretty high and although there are over 200 different variables Google looks at, PageRank is a pretty good indicator of site authority. I’ve got my work cut out for me…
Another interesting thing I tried was to do a search for the links that have been claimed for me via Google Authorship. As you can see by the graphic at the top of the page, by clicking on the More by Alan Reeves link, Google produced 86 links (some were omitted because they were similar). This is the first time I have seen these results but it looks like this may be another way to track progress, especially for content creators.
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 #8 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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