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The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 61

March 25, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.This is the 61st update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves. If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 60th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-24-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#11 – My About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 2 places from last week at #9)
#30 – My videos on Vimeo (down 20 places from last week at #10)
#54 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Pinterest (down 16 places from last week at #38)
#61 – @BookWormLaser on Twitter (down 5 places from last week at #56)
#73 – The Search For Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 57 (down 16 places from last week at #57)

This week I’m at #11. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 59 places (HOLY plumiting results Batman…) with 1 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.

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The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 60

March 18, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.This is the 60th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves. If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 59th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-17-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#9 – My videos on Vimeo (down 1 place from last week at #8)
#10 – My About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 4 place from last week at #14)
#38 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Pinterest (up 7 places from last week at #45)
#56 – @BookWormLaser on Twitter (up 6 places from last week at #62)
#57 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (up 15 places from last week at #72)

This week I’m at #9. Overall, my top 5 results increased 31 places with 2 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 8 times in the top 100 search results.

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Choosing A Laptop – Small Business IT for Non-Geeks

March 14, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

At first glance, choosing a small business laptop can look like an impossible task; do you get the netbook, the Chromebook, PC, Mac, and on and on. With so many choices, how do you choose?

It’s not perfect, but here is my method for choosing the right small business laptop for the task at hand:

Choose the application
Choose the budget
Choose the timeline
Selecting the laptop
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Chris Brogan and Julien Smith – The Impact Equation

March 12, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Starting once, on any given day, is easy. Starting every single day is hard, but it’s how your media will be created, how your book will get written, and how your empire will be built.

The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 59

March 11, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.This is the 59th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves. If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 58th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 3-10-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#8 – My About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 1 place from last week at #9)
#14 – My videos on Vimeo (up 6 places from last week at #22)
#45 – @BookWormLaser on Twitter (up 5 places from last week at #50)
#62 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (down 9 places from last week at #53)
#72 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Pinterest (down 18 places from last week at #54)

This week I’m at #8. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 15 places with 2 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 7 times in the top 100 search results.

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