Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 113th 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 and last week’s here (112).   Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-23-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #12 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (up 1 spot from last week at #13)
• #17 – This site, BlueCapra.com (down 2 spots from last week at #15)
• #22 – My Pinterest profile (up 1 spot from last week at #23)
• #26 – Alan Reeves on Vimeo (down 1 spot from last week at #25)
• #30 – My Flickr page for Book Worm Laser & Design (down 1 spot from last week at #29)

This week I’m at #12 on Google.  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 1 spot with 3 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. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 112th 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 and last week’s here (111).   Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-16-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #13 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (up 4 spots from last week at #17)
• #15 – This site, BlueCapra.com (up 5 spots from last week at #20)
• #23 – My Pinterest profile (down 1 spot from last week at #22)
• #25 – Alan Reeves on Vimeo (up 2 spots from last week at #27)
• #29 – My laser engraving videos on DailyMotion (up 1 spot from last week at #30)

This week I’m at #13 on Google.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 11 spots with 4 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 12 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 111th 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 and last week’s here (110).   Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-9-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #17 – This site, BlueCapra.com (down 15 spots – OUCH! – from last week at #2)
• #20 – My Pinterest profile (down 17 spots from last week at #3)
• #22 – Alan Reeves on Vimeo (down 5 places from last week at #17)
• #27 – My laser engraving videos on DailyMotion (down 6 spots from last week at #21)
• #30 – My laser engraving pictures on Flickr (down 6 spots from last week at #24)

This week the results took a beating, landing me at #17.  Something looks wrong with the first page on Google but hey, the results are the results.  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 49 spots with 3 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 11 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 110th 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 and last week’s here (109).   Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-2-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #2 – My laser engraving site, Book Worm Laser & Design – (no change from last week at #2)
• #3 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (up 2 spots from last week at #5)
• #17 – This site, BlueCapra.com (no change from last week at #17)
• #21 – My Pinterest profile (down 2 spots from last week at #19)
• #24 – Alan Reeves on Vimeo (no change from last week at #24)

This week I’m at #2.  Overall, my top 5 results stayed the same with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 12 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 109th 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 and last week’s here (108).   Below are the results as of Sunday, 2-23-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #2 – My laser engraving site, Book Worm Laser & Design – Notice the Google Authorship image – (up 2 spots from last week at #4)
• #5 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (no change from last week at #5)
• #17 – This site, BlueCapra.com (up 3 spots from last week at #20)
• #19 – My Pinterest profile (up 3 spots from last week at #22)
• #24 – Alan Reeves on Vimeo (down 1 spot from last week at #23)

This week I’m at #2.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 7 place 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. [Read more…]