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Personal SEO – Getting to 1st on Google – Week 86

September 16, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 86th 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, 85th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 9-15-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

  • #11 – My Vizify profile – (down 1- places from last week at #1)
  • #15 – My About page on BlueCapra (down 13 places from last week at #2)
  • #16 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (down 11 places from last week at #5)
  • #19 – My Vimeo profile (down 6 places from last week at #13)
  • #20 – My Blogger website (down 3 places from last week at #17)

This week I’m down to #11.  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 34 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places (all on the 2nd page).  As a whole, I showed up 17 times in the top 100 search results which, I think, could be a new record.
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Personal SEO – Getting to 1st on Google – Week 85

September 9, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Personal SEO - 1st on Google - Week 85 - First 2 Google resultsWelcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 85th 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, 84th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 9-8-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

  • #1 – My Pinterest profile (no change from last week at #1)
  • #2 – My Vizify profile – (up 2 places from last week at #4)
  • #5 – My profile on GoodReads (no change from last week at #5)
  • #13 – My About page on BlueCapra (up 1 place from last week at #14)
  • #17 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (no change from last week at #17)

This week I’m still at #1.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 3 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 17 times in the top 100 search results which, I think, could be a new record.
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Personal SEO – Getting to 1st on Google – Week 84

September 2, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Personal SEO - Getting to 1st on Google - Week 84 - Scan This GuideWelcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 84th 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, 83rd Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 9-1-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

  • #1 – My Vizify profile – (no change from last week at #1)
  • #4 – My Pinterest profile (no change from last week at #4)
  • #5 – My profile on GoodReads (no change from last week at #5)
  • #14 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (no change from last week at #14)
  • #17 – My About page on BlueCapra (no change from last week at #17)
This week I’m still at #1.  Overall, my top 5 results neither increased or decreased with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 15 times in the top 100 search results.

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Responsive Website Design – Making WP-PageNavi A Little More Responsive

August 31, 2013 by Alan R 2 Comments

Depending on how your website is built, chances are good that you have some sort of pagination; a way to scroll through your content page by page.  If you are using a plugin, like I am (WP-PageNavi), it might take a little help to be more responsive.

Recently, I was adding a widget in the sidebar of the site (if you are looking for more information on QR codes, check it out).  Since my theme (the Standard Theme by 8Bit) is responsive, I wanted to check to see what the widget looked like on my smart phone.  The widget looked fine but my pagination need a bit of help.  Here’s what it looked like on my laptop:

responsive-design-wp-pagenavi-before

And here is what it looked like on my iPhone:

responsive-design-wp-pagenavi-before-iphone

As you can see, the pagination on the iPhone is wrapping to the next line and my widget is all over the top.  So, first things first; let’s reduce the size of the pagination controls. [Read more…]

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Personal SEO – Getting to 1st on Google – Week 83

August 26, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 83rd 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, 82nd Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 8-25-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

  • #1 – My Vizify profile – (no change from last week at #1)
  • #4 – My Blogger page (no change from last week at #3)
  • #5 – My Pinterest profile (down 1 from last week at #4)
  • #14 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (down 1 place from last week at #13)
  • #17 – My About page on BlueCapra (down 1 place from last week at #16)
This week I’m still at #1.  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 15 times in the top 100 search results.

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Filed Under: How-To

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