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The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 52 – The first year

January 21, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

The Search for Alan Reeves - 1st on Google - 2 front page results Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 52nd 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, 51st Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 1-20-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#9 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 1 place from last week at #10)
#10 – My videos on Vimeo (up 17 places from last week at #27)
#25 – Alan Reeves on BrandYourself (up 7 places from last week at #32)
#41 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Pinterest with picture (down 8 places last week at #33)
#47 – The tag page for Alan Reeves on BlueCapra (up 8 places from last week at #55)

This week I’m at #10. Overall, my top 5 results increased 25 places with 2 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 9 times in the top 100 search results.

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Social Media Mashup with RebelMouse

January 17, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

If you want to see your Facebook posts, you go to Facebook.

If you want to see your Pinterest pins, you go to Pinterest.

Same thing with Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, etc.

But… what if you wanted to get a picture of your entire social media presence or strategy? Are you stuck using a bunch of tabs in your browser, madly clicking back and forth? Maybe not anymore, now that there is RebelMouse. [Read more…]

The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 51

January 14, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 51st 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, 50th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 1-13-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#10 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, no picture – see why in the strategies section (up 1 place from last week at #10)
#27 – My profile at Brand Yourself (down 4 places from last week at #23)
#32 – My videos on Vimeo (up 1 place from last week at #33)
#33 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Pinterest (down 2 places last week at #36)
#55 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Google+ – Old profile that will soon be deleted (down 18 places from last week at #37)

This week I’m at #10. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 22 places with 1 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.

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My WordPress How-To: Search Meter

January 10, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Searching for information has become a way of life for just about everyone. When you need to know something, what do you do? You “Google it”. Performing online searches have become so common place that we hardly give it a second thought. So, what happens when you are looking for information on a specific site? To look at it another way, what are your visitors searching for? If you don’t know, you are missing out on some great information. It’s time for Search Meter

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The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 50

January 7, 2013 by Alan R Leave a Comment

The Search for Alan Reeves - 1st on Google - Week 50 - #10 with no picture Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 50th 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, 49th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 1-6-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#10 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, no picture – see why in the strategies section (up 1 place from last week at #11)
#23 – My profile at Brand Yourself (down 8 places from last week at #15)
#33 – My LinkedIn profile (down 8 places from last week at #25)
#36 – My profile page on 48 Days.net (no change from last week at #36)
#37 – My videos on Vimeo (up 3 places from last week at #40)

This week I’m at #10. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 12 places with 2 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.

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