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1st on Google – Week 18

May 28, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

1st on Google - Alan Reeves - 18th week update - PageRank increase to 1Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 18th update.  If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 17th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 05-27-12 (click here to do your own search):

  • #5 – My LinkedIn profile (no change from last week at #5)
  • #15 – My personal blog, BlueCapra.com, with picture!!! (no change from last week at #15)
  • #29 – My Pinterest profile for Book Worm Laser & Design (no change from last week at #29)
  • #30 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (up 2 place from last week at #32)
  • #32 –  The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture!!!  (up 2 places from last week at #34)
This week I am back at #5, same as last week.  The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #15.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 4 places with only 2 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  I showed up 11 times in the top 100 search results.

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Filed Under: How-To Tagged With: 1st on Google, 2nd, 5th, Bing, first, Google, SEO

1st on Google – Week 17

May 21, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

1st on Google - Alan Reeves - 17th Week update - LinkedIn position swapWelcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 17th update.  If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 16th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 05-20-12 (click here to do your own search):

  • #5 – My LinkedIn profile (up 8 places from last week at #13)
  • #15 – My personal blog, BlueCapra.com, with picture!!! (up 8 places from last week at #23)
  • #29 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (up 4 place from last week at #25)
  • #32 –  The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture!!!  (down 5 places from last week at #27)
  • #34 – My business Pinterest profile, BookWormLaser (down 3 places from last week at #31)
This week I am at #5, back up from the past few weeks.  One interesting order change that I noticed; my Linkedin profile showed up before the general Linkedin search for Alan Reeves.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 16 places with only 2 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  I showed up 11 times in the top 100 search results.

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Filed Under: How-To Tagged With: 1st on Google, 2nd, 5th, Bing, first, Google, SEO

1st on Google – Week 16

May 14, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

1st on Google - 16th Week Update - Alan Reeves - Rich Snippet Tool from GoogleWelcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 16th update.  If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 15th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 05-06-12 (click here to do your own search):

  •  #13 – My personal blog, BlueCapra.com, no picture??? (down 8 places from last week at #5)
  • #23 – My Google+ profile with picture (down 14 spot from last week at #9)
  • #25 – @bookwormlaser on Twitter ( down 2 spots from last week at #23)
  • #27 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, no picture  (down 3 spots from last week at #24)
  • #31 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (down 6 place from last week at #25)
This week I am at #13, a dramatic drop of 8 places from last week.  The top spots #1 – #4 are occupied again by Wikipedia, IMDb, and LinkedIn (all the people named Alan Reeves, there are 25 of us).  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 33 places with only 3 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  I showed up 11 times in the top 100 search results which is down from the record of 13 last week.

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Filed Under: General, How-To Tagged With: 13, 1st on Google, Alan Reeves, Bing, first, Google, SEO

My WordPress How-to: WordPress Popular Posts

May 10, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

My WordPress How-to: WordPress Popular Posts - resultPicture yourself on a new site.  You were bored, wandering around on StumbleUpon hoping to find something interesting when after several pages, you settled on one that looked promising.  The information is really good, well written,  and just what you needed.  After looking around, you realize the site is huge.  Hundred upon hundreds of posts await your reading.  Where do you begin?  You could look at the list of related posts at the bottom of the page you are on, but on the side, you see two words that catch your attention: Popular Posts.

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Filed Under: How-To Tagged With: popular, posts, Wordpress

1st on Google – Week 15

May 7, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

1st on Google - Alan Reeves - Week 15 update - LinkedIn profileWelcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 15th update.  If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 14th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 05-06-12 (click here to do your own search):

  • #5 – My LinkedIn profile (no change from last week at #5)
  • #9 – My personal blog, BlueCapra.com, no picture??? (up 2 places from last week at #11)
  • #23 – @bookwormlaser on Twitter ( down 2 spots from last week at #21)
  • #24 – My Google+ profile (down 1 spot from last week at #23)
  • #25 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (up 3 place from last week at #28)
This week I am at #5, same as last week.  The top spots #1 – #4 are occupied again by Wikipedia, IMDb, and LinkedIn (all the people named Alan Reeves, there are 25 of us).  Overall, my top 5 results increased 2 places with the first 5 results all occurring in the first 25 places, a first for the journey (5 results in the top 25).  I showed up 13 times in the top 100 search results which is a new record.

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Filed Under: General, How-To Tagged With: 1st on Google, Alan Reeves, Bing, first, Google, SEO

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