Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  If you missed the first few posts, you can find the first one here and the 1st Week Update here.  Here are the results as of Sunday, 02-05-12 (click here to do your own search):

• #11 – My personal blog, BlueCapra.com (Up 35 places from last week at #46) – With my picture I may add
• #37 – My LinkedIn profile page (Up 65 places from last week at #102)
• #56 – Comment I made on AndyTraub.com 2 months ago (Up 51 places from last week at #107)
• #65 – My profile at GoodReads.com (Up 45 places from last week at #110)
• #84 – My About Me page at this site, BlueCapra.com (Up 27 places from last week at #111) – again, with my picture

This week was great for my journey to 1st on Google.  Considering the first five search results where I appear, I jumped up 35 places to #11 and overall, I increased a total of 223 places.  That’s great considering last week I only increased a total of 6 places (45 points up for the first occurrence, 39 points down for the next four occurrences)

The search was performed on my work laptop after I had cleared the cache, browser history, etc.  On top of that, I used Google Chrome (which I don’t normally use).  The search setting I used was similar to the first weeks (cleared cache, 10 search results, non-instant results, strict filtering, etc).  In order to verify that the results did not change, I performed the same search on my desktop computer using Firefox about 30 minutes after the first search.  The results were the same.  I feel confident that the computer and browser does not affect the search results.  From this point one, I will do the search on whatever computer and browser is convenient (excluding my personal laptop). [Read more…]