Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. If you missed the first few posts, you can find the first one here, 10th Week update here, and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 04-08-12 (click here to do your own search):

• #15 – The About Me page from my personal blog, BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 10 places from last week at #5)
• #30 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (down 18 place from last week at #13)
• #31 – My LinkedIn profile (down 11 place from last week at #21)
• #44 – BlueCapra.com tag page; posts tagged ‘Alan Reeves’ (down 10 places from last week at #34)
• #50 – The post, How Would You Use a MeTag™? from CoachRadio.tv about one of my laser engraving products, the MeTag™ (up 29 places from last week at #79)

This week was similar a few weeks ago (week 8) when my results tanked.  At first glance, it looks like another terrible week but there is a little bit of a silver lining.  My first occurrence is at #15 and overall, my top 5 results decreased 20 places.  I showed up 10 times in the top 100 search results (my silver lining).  This is two more times than I have ever showed up in the top 100 which is promising. I’m not sure I like the trade-off, the drop in my first showing vs. number of listings in the top 100, but that is the way things are.  It does seem that the results can fluctuate a great deal week to week (sometimes referred to as the Google dance) but the same big sites are showing up time and time again. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. If you missed the first few posts, you can find the first one here, 9th Week update here, and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 04-01-12 (click here to do your own search):

• #5 – My LinkedIn profile (down 1 place from last week at #4)
• #13 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (down 1 place from last week at #12)
• #20 – The About Me page from my personal blog, BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 14 places from last week at #32)
• #34 – My pintrest profile for Book Worm Laser & Design (no change from last week)
• #79 –  The post, How Would You Use a MeTag™? from CoachRadio.tv about one of my laser engraving products, the MeTag™ (down 20 places from last week at #59)

This week was similar to previous weeks.  My first occurrence is at #5 and overall, my top 5 results decreased 8 places.  I showed up 6 times in the top 100 search results.  My picture did show up 5th in the image results which is also intriguing.  Something else that is interesting is the sites that show up in spots #1 through #5: [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. If you missed the first few posts, you can find the first one here, 8th Week update here, and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 03-18-12 (click here to do your own search):

• #4 – My LinkedIn profile (up 12 places from last week at #16)
• #12 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (up 5 places from last week at #17)
• #32 – The About Me page from my personal blog, BlueCapra.com, with picture (no change from last week at #32)
• #34 – The post, How Would You Use a MeTag™? from CoachRadio.tv about one of my laser engraving products, the MeTag™ (up 6 places from last week at #40)
• #59 –  BlueCapra.com tag page; posts tagged ‘Alan Reeves’ (up 28 places from last week at #87)

This week showed a nice turnaround from last week.  My first occurrence is at #4 and overall, my top 5 results increased 51 places.  I showed up 6 times in the top 100 search results,  which is not as high as I had hoped, but not as bad as it could be.

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Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. If you missed the first few posts, you can find the first one here, 7th Week update here, and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 03-18-12 (click here to do your own search):

• #16 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (down 13 places from last week at #3)
• #17 – My personal blog, BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 3 places from last week at #14)
• #32 – My LinkedIn profile (down 15 from last week at #17)
• #40 – The post, How Would You Use a MeTag@trade; from CoachRadio.tv about one of my laser engraving products, the MeTag™ (down 11 places from last week at #29)
• #87 – The page listing the followers to my business Pintrest boards (down 28 places from last week at #59)

Do you hear that?  That whistling sound is my ranking plummeting.  This week pretty awful for my journey to 1st on Google. I dropped to the #16 spot for my first occurrence.  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 70 places.  I showed up 5 times in the top 100 search results,  which is 3 less than last week.

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