Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.This is the 66th 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, 65th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 4-28-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):
- #10 – My About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture – back on the first page!!! (up 5 places from last week at #15)
- #14 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves with picture (up 2 places from last week at #16)
- #19 – Week 61 in this series (up 11 places from last week at #30)
- #27 – My videos on Vimeo (up 19 places from last week at #46)
- #54 – @BookWormLaser on Twitter (up 5 places from last week at #59)
A check at Google Images showed my picture at #10 and a total of 7 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 with picture (down 1 place from last week at #2)
- #10 – My Facebook profile (up 1 place from last week at #11)
- #17 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves with picture (down 2 places from last week at #15)
- #22 – My profile on 48Days.net (no change from last week at #22)
- #27 – My profile on About.Me (up 2 places from last week at #29)
This week I’m at #2 on Bing. Overall, my top 5 results neither increased nor decreased with 4 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 9 times in the top 100 search results.
A check at Bing Images showed my picture at #8 and a total of 5 occurrences in the top 100 images.
Strategies for 1st
This week is the first time in 6 weeks (since March 18) that I have been back on the front page. Happy day!!! It is also nice to see a few more links in the top 25.
As strategies go, I’m still working with Twitter via Buffer and have been since April 8th. Trying not to be a complete [insert derogatory comment here…], I only link to my stuff ever three or four days (currently Tweet twice a day). Mostly, I try to share interesting stuff from around the web and every so often, ask a question or post a quote or something.
Along with Twitter, Google+ has been seeing more activity from me recently. I’m trying to interact with people who share common interests and Google+ is the place to do that. According to my analytics, I haven’t been getting much traffic from either source and few if any +1s or retweets but I can only hope that all the work pays off.
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 #15 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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