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Personal SEO – Getting to 1st on Google – Week 85

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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):

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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Share photos your way with Pressgram

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Pressgram logoAre you an Instagrammer (Instagram user, Instagrammerite, Instagramist)?  According to Instagram, there are over 130 million active monthly users and over 45 million photos being shared every day.  Compare that to the population of the US (a bit over 316 million according to the Census Bureau)  Of course, not everyone in the US uses Instagram and not all Instagram users are in the US but just compare the numbers.

Taken just the numbers, over one third of the population of the US uses Instagram on a monthly basis.  That is amazing, simply amazing.

But, who owns your photos?  When you get traffic to your pictures, does it help your personal or company brand?

For those of us that have our own websites (especially one as small as this one…), we want visitors.  We want people to visit our site, read our words, oohh and aahh at our pictures, and so on.  By sharing our content on other sites (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, etc) we get some visitors but it’s always a challenge.  This is especially true when most of your content (in the case of pictures) are housed on someone else’s site.  Luckily, now we have Pressgram. [Read more…]

Personal SEO – Getting to 1st on Google – Week 84

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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):

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

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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:

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And here is what it looked like on my iPhone:

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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…]