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The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 49

December 31, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 49th 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, 48th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 12-30-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#11 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (down 1 place from last week at #10)
#15 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (no change from last week at #15)
#25 – My profile at Brand Yourself (up 8 places from last week at #33)
#36 – My LinkedIn profile (up 5 places from last week at #41)
#40 – My profile page on 48 Days.net (up 4 places from last week at #44)

This week I’m at #11. What a difference a few hours makes. Just about 6 hours ago, I was showing my nephew some results and my About page was at #10 (now at #15). Overall, my top 5 results increased 16 places with 3 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.

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Vanguard SBH-100 and Alta Pro 263AT Review

December 27, 2012 by Alan R 8 Comments

Have you been looking for a tripod? One that will help video family gatherings, hold your camera during children’s performances so you don’t have to, and help you take just the right picture? Me too. After tons of research, the legs and head I decided on was the Vanguard SBH-100 and Alta Pro 263AT.

The Head: Vanguard SBH-100

An important part of any tripod is the head; the part that connects the camera to the legs. There are many options to consider when deciding on a tripod head. If you are going to mount a video camera and take mostly videos or landscape photography, you may want a pan head. For general photography, a ball head is a great choice. Most of how I use my camera is to shoot videos (check out my laser engraving videos on YouTube) and take general photography so for me, a ball head was just what I needed. The particular ball head I chose is the Vanguard SBH-100.

The SBH-100 is a medium duty head that supports about 10 pounds of camera equipment. The heaviest combination of camera equipment I have is a little bit over 2.5 pounds (a Canon T3i with a Canon USM 70-300mm zoom lens). This head will support just about any upgrade I will want to make to my lens, body, or whatever.

Here are some features of the SBH-100 that influenced my decision (check out the end of the post for pictures):

two bubble levels
Quick release plate (two of them)
360 scale for rotation

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The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 48

December 24, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 48th 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, 47th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 12-23-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#10 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (no change from last week at #10)
#15 – My profile at Brand Yourself (up 3 places from last week at #18)
#33 – My LinkedIn profile (up 1 place from last week at #34)
#41 – The tag page for Alan Reeves on BlueCapra (down 2 places from last week at #39)
#44 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (up 1 place from last week at #45)

This week I’m at #10 but more specifically, this site is at #10. If memory serves, this is a new record for BlueCapra. Very happy. Very happy indeed. Overall, my top 5 results increased 3 place with 2 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.

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The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 47

December 17, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Alan Reeves - 1st on Google - Week 47 - First page Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 47th 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, 46th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 12-16-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#10 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 3 places from last week at #13)
#18 – My profile at Brand Yourself (up 3 places from last week at #15)
#34 – My LinkedIn profile (down 3 places from last week at #31)
#39 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Pinterest (down 2 places from last week at #37)
#45 – The tag page for Alan Reeves on BlueCapra (down 7 places from last week at #38)

This week I’m at #10 but more specifically, this site is at #10. If memory serves, this is a new record for BlueCapra. Very happy. Very happy indeed. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 6 place 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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The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 46

December 10, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Alan Reeves - 1st on Google - Week 46 Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 46th 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, 45th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Monday, 12-10-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#13 – My profile at Brand Yourself (down 10 places from last week at #3)
#15 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 1 place from last week at #14)
#31 – My LinkedIn profile (down 9 places from last week at #22)
#37 – My Twitter handle (down 5 places from last week at #32)
#38 – Book Worm Laser & Design on Twitter (up 2 places from last week at #40)

This week I’m at #13. The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #15. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 23 place 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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