Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 105th 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 (#104).   Below are the results as of Sunday, 1-26-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #2 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (no change from last week at #2)
• #3 – The About page on this website (no change from last week at #3)
• #20 – My Pinterest profile (down 7 spots from last week at #13)
• #22 – My Vimeo profile (down 1 spot from last week at #21)
• #25 – Book Worm Laser & Design – My laser engraving business (down 1 spot from last week at #24)

This week I’m at #2.  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 9 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 16 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 104th update (2 years…) 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, 103rd Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 1-19-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #2 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (no change from last week at #2)
• #3 – The About page on this website (no change from last week at #3)
• #16 – My Pinterest profile (down 3 spots from last week at #13)
• #19 – My Vimeo profile (up 2 spot from last week at #21)
• #22 – Book Worm Laser & Design – My laser engraving business (up 2 spots from last week at #24)
• #28 – Alan Reeves on Google+
• #29 – My laser engraving videos on Dailymotion
• #35 – Alan Reeves on Goodreads
• #36 – My Quora profile
• #41 – My About.me profile
• #43 – Alan Reeves on SlideShare
• #51 – My laser engraving pictures on Flickr
• #72 – My site on Blogger
• #83 – My likes on StumbleUpon

This week I’m at #2.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 1 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 14 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 103rd 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, 102nd Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 1-12-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #2 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (no change from last week at #2)
• #3 – The About page on this website (no change from last week at #3)
• #13 – My Pinterest profile (down 4 spots from last week at #9)
• #21 – My Vimeo profile (up 1 spot from last week at #22)
• #24 – Book Worm Laser & Design – My laser engraving business (up 1 spot from last week at #23)

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

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 102nd 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, 101st Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 1-5-14 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #2 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (no change from last week at #2)
• #3 – The About page on this website (no change from last week at #3)
• #9 – My Pinterest profile (up 1 spot from last week at #10)
• #22 – My Vimeo profile (down 3 spots from last week at #19)
• #23 – Book Worm Laser & Design – My laser engraving business (down 2 spots from last week at #21)

This week I’m at #2.  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 4 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 18 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 101st 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, 100th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 12-29-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #2 – Alan Reeves on Twitter (up 1 spot from last week at #3)
• #3 – The About page on this website (up 9 spots from last week at #12)
• #10 – My Pinterest profile (up 9 spots from last week at #19)
• #19 – My Vimeo profile (up 3 spots from last week at #22)
• #21 – Book Worm Laser & Design – My laser engraving business (up 3 spots from last week at #24)

This week I’m at #2.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 25 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places (actually, it was 7 in the top 25).  As a whole, I showed up 15 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]