Personal victory – I rank #1 for my own name!
Posted on | March 16, 2009 | 4 Comments
Not long ago I posted that I wasn’t ranking #1 for my own name. This was mainly due to a site with the domain williamgardner.co.uk being established for a few years, and Google has the tendancy to rank sites with the keyword as it’s domain very well.
I just checked today and I wgardner.co.uk now ranks number one for the keyword ‘william gardner‘. Not that this is that important for me, or the site, but I am pleased since this was my own little personal SEO goal.
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March 16th, 2009 @ 7:59 pm
What about “Will Gardner”? Next on the list?
March 17th, 2009 @ 8:22 am
Yes BIG things planned
March 20th, 2009 @ 5:26 am
Heh! Good work will! Question is…what did you do to give Google a kick in your direction??
March 20th, 2009 @ 9:40 am
Nick – I managed to build quite a lot of ‘followed’ inbound links to my site, which the link anchor text as ‘William Gardner’.
Most of these links came from blogs commenting like this, but I made sure most of them were ‘followed’ rather than ‘nofollowed’.
In fact, prime example would be how my name above this comment is a link to my blog, and the anchor text is the keyword I was trying to rank for… Apart that comment links on my blog are not followed.