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1st on Google – Week 4

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1st on Google - 2nd placeWelcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. If you missed the first few posts, you can find the first one here, 1st Week Update here, 2nd Week Update here, and 3rd Week Update here. Below are the results as of Sunday, 02-19-12 (click here to do your own search):

  • #2 – My LinkedIn profile page (Up 9 places from last week at #10)
  • #10 – The About Me page from my personal blog, BlueCapra.com, with picture (Up 15 place from last week at #25)
  • #71 – My review of 48 Days to the Work You Love on GoodReads.com (down 27 places from last week at #44)
  • #72 – Comment I made on AndyTraub.com 2 months ago (down 11 places from last week at #61)
  • #76 –BlueCapra.com tag page; posts tagged ‘Alan Reeves’ (down 3 places from last week at #73)

This week was mixed for my journey to 1st on Google. Within the first five search results where I appear, I jumped up 9 places to #2 and overall, I decreased a total of 17 places. Last week I increased a total of 40 places with the top spot at #10. The closer I get, the harder it will be to get there. Overall, I show up 6 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]

1st on Google – Week 3

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1st on Google - Alan Reeves - 3rd week searchWelcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. If you missed the first few posts, you can find the first one here, 1st Week Update here, and 2nd Week Update here. Below are the results as of Sunday, 02-12-12 (click here to do your own search):

  • #10 – The About Me page from my personal blog, BlueCapra.com, with picture (Up 1 place from last week at #11)
  • #25 – My LinkedIn profile page (Up 12 places from last week at #37)
  • #44 – My personal blog, BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 12 places from last week at #56)
  • #61 – Comment I made on AndyTraub.com 2 months ago (Up 4 places from last week at #65)
  • #73 – My Technorati profile (up 11 places from last week at #84)

This week was pretty good for my journey to 1st on Google. Considering the first five search results where I appear, I jumped up 1 place to #10 and overall, I increased a total of 40 places. Last week I increased a total of 223 places with the top spot at #11.  The closer I get, the harder it will be to get there.  Overall, I show up 6 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]

Picture a day – 02-05-12

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Here are the pictures from the previous week (Saturday, 02-05-2012 through Saturday, 02-11-2012) for my Picture a day. This week I again missed a few days.  In fact, this week was more of a Picture every other day.

I started this year hoping I would go through an entire year taking multiple pictures per day. This has just not happened. I did not expect to be spending as much time as I have on my business and blogs. I will continue to take pictures and will do my best to be more intentional about doing it everyday, I am no longer under the illusion that I will be 100%. I know I will only get better with practice but taking pictures just to say I had a picture a day does little or no good.

My main goal with this is to become a better photographer through practice and feedback. Let me know how I am doing. If you like these images, please share them (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pintrest…)

If you missed the previous week’s Picture a day, check them out (you can also find them on Flickr and Google+) [Read more…]

Picture a day – 01-29-12

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Here are the pictures from the previous week (Saturday, 01-29-2012 through Saturday, 02-04-2012) for my Picture a day. This week I not only realized that I have too many irons in the fire, but as much as I really like photography, I really don’t want to have to take pictures.  As a result, there are a few missed days.

I started this year hoping I would go through an entire year taking multiple pictures per day.  This has just not happened.  I did not expect to be spending as much time as I have on my business and blogs.  I will continue to take pictures and will do my best to be more intentional about doing it everyday, I am no longer under the illusion that I will be 100%.  I know I will only get better with practice but taking pictures just to say I had a picture a day does little or no good.

My main goal with this is to become a better photographer through practice and feedback. Let me know how I am doing. If you like these images, please share them (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pintrest…)

If you missed the previous week’s Picture a day, check them out (you can also find them on Flickr and Google+) [Read more…]

1st on Google – Week 1

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Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  If you missed the first post, you can find it here.  Here are the results as of Sunday, 01-29-12 (click here to do your own search):

  • #46 – My personal blog, BlueCapra.com (Up 45 places from last week – #91)
  • #102 – Author page on EzineArticles.com (Down 9 places from last week – #93)
  • #107 – Reviews on BookSneeze.com (Down 9 places from last week – #98)
  • #110 – Comment on AndyTraub.com (Down 11 places from last week – #99)
  • #111 – Profile page on 48Days.net (Down 10 places from last week – #101)

1st on Google - Week 1 Update - Alan ReevesThe 1st entry on Google was a search on LinkedIn.com that had 25 other Alan Reeves.  I was 13th on that list.  I made a huge jump in my 1st ranking, but 2-5 slipped about 10 places each.

The search was done on my desktop after I had cleared the cache, browser history, etc.  On top of that, I used Internet Explorer (which I don’t normally use).  This week I will try several computers at the same time side-by-side to see if there are any differences just out of curiosity.

After looking closer at my site, I did not have the author link setup properly.  Here is the fix:

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