There it is! 11th position on Google for my first name!

March 13th, 2007 by Vlad | Filed under Other (Fom Old Blog).

A few weeks ago, strange idea wondered into my head. I decided to experiment and see if I can achieve any improvement when it comes to rank for my own name. The task at hand was not an easy one since Google has plenty of pages that come up for “Vlad”. Good amount of them of course have nothing to do with me but “Vlad the Impaler”. So I decided to throw him a little competition. The man is dead anyway!

When I started this experiment about two weeks ago, my site came would show on the pages 8-13 (with 50 results per page) or between 400^th-600^th positions. Today my sites shows in the eleventh place on Google for Vlad.

Few things helped to achieve this along the way. I was more active commenting on other blogs, while majority of blogs that I have commented are using “nofollow” but there were few that are generous in spreading the “love”. I also added under every single post on my blog the following “Posted by Vlad“.

I am not sure if my site will hold this position for a long time, but it sure brought me some satisfaction to see my site move up about 90 positions a day.

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45n5 03/13/2007 09:18 AM 1 point
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The 11th most popular Vlad in the world! Congrats.

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Vlad 03/13/2007 10:24 AM 1 point
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Thanks Mark. Only according to Google though!

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Chris M 03/13/2007 01:20 PM 1 point
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Congratulations, Vlad. I don't know, I don't think that it'll be too difficult for you to defend that position. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you make it onto the first page eventually (with 10 results per page, of course).

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Vlad 03/13/2007 01:26 PM 1 point
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Thanks Chris,
I think this just proved to me that with a little planning and effort it is not that difficult to rank in Google after all. I am not sure though about the first 10 positions. We'll see.

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Andy Beard 03/13/2007 04:02 PM 1 point
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Actually you are doing better than you thought

You are showing 10th here on Google.com and 19th on Google.pl

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Vlad 03/13/2007 04:04 PM 1 point
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lol Thanks Andy!

I guess its much harder to compete with those Poles ;)

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Mark from Bloglyne.com 03/13/2007 06:41 PM 1 point
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Congratulations Vlad - I tried to do a search for my fist name but after about 10,000 I gave up *grins*

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Vlad 03/13/2007 10:16 PM 1 point
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Thanks Mark (from Bloglyne),
I amm not sure if I will benefit from it though. Trffic geerated by this keyword will be accidental to say the least. But it showed me that you can inporove rankings a bit for other keywors as well.

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Fraser Edwards 03/15/2007 11:58 AM 1 point
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Well done Vlad :)

It's a nice result to have even if it isn't a big money generator. I'm always checking how I rank for my first name too. I do well in google.co.uk but still got some work to do on the .com version!

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Vlad 03/15/2007 01:06 PM 1 point
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Thanks Fraser,
If it is of any help I use "dofollow" plugin in my comment area ;)

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Fraser Edwards 03/16/2007 10:06 AM 1 point
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Ah yeah - you are right! I should be taking part in discussion a bit more :)

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Vlad 03/16/2007 01:03 PM 1 point
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well it will depend if I put out anything worthy of dicussion :)

Thanks for your support!

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ann 07/04/2007 05:40 PM 1 point
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By the way, I have been looking up on the Internet and I have found some tools which are really cools to monitor the positioning of the competition, as well as seeing their tips and tricks. If you are interested, I advised to you have a look. It seems they are free: http://www.lineared.com/es/recuperar/datos-posiciones-google-msn-yahoo.htm

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