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The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 41

November 5, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Alan Reeves - 1st on Google - Week 41 - Knowem.com Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 41st 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, 40th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 11-4-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#4 – My LinkedIn profile (down 1 place from last week at #3)
#19 – My profile at Brand Yourself (down 3 places from last week at #16)
#27 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 6 place from last week at #21)
#29 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (down 1 place from last week at #28)
#30 – Book Worm Laser & Design videos on Daily Motion (up 1 place from last week at #31)

This week I’m at #4. The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #27. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 10 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 40

October 29, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

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Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 40th 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, 39th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 10-29-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#3 – My LinkedIn profile (no change from last week at #3)
#16 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (no change from last week at #16)
#21 – My profile at Brand Yourself (up 4 places from last week at #25)
#28 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 1 place from last week at #29)
#31 – Book Worm Laser & Design videos on Daily Motion (no change from last week at #31)

This week I’m at #3, same as last week. The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #28. Overall, my top 5 results increased 5 place 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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Small Business IT for Non-Geeks – An Overview

October 25, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

(photo by Jesse Wagstaff)

Can you tell a server from a workstation? Do you think RAID is for bugs around the office? Information technology does not need to be a complicated mess that only your system administrator or your IT consulting company knows about. In this series of posts, we will discuss the basics of small business IT infrastructure and why having a little knowledge in this area is important to your business. This first post will give you a rundown of the topics that will be covered in more detail later in the series. Let’s get started…

Small Business IT infrastructure for non-geeks

Computers

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The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 39

October 22, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 39th 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, 38th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 10-21-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#3 – My LinkedIn profile (up 1 place from last week at #4)
#16 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (down 4 places from last week at #12)
#25 – My profile at Brand Yourself (down 1 place from last week at #24)
#29 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 1 place from last week at #28)
#31 – Book Worm Laser & Design videos on Daily Motion (no change from last week at #31)

This week I’m at #4, same as last week. The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #26. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 6 place 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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The Search for Alan Reeves – 1st on Google – Week 38

October 15, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 38th 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, 37th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 10-14-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#4 – My LinkedIn profile (no change from last week at #4)
#12 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (down 3 places from last week at #9)
#24 – My profile at Brand Yourself (down 2 places from last week at #22)
#28 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 2 places from last week at #26)
#31 – Book Worm Laser & Design videos on Daily Motion (no change from last week at #31)

This week I’m at #4, same as last week. The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #26. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 7 place 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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