I am going to create a little benchmark for this blog here.  I am going to assess where I am in all of the ranks I can find, like search engines, Alexa, etc and list the results.  So here we go:
According to Alexa - Andrewmesser.com has a traffic rank of: 4,540,808, so I’ve got a […]

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I was about to jump off the web for the week, but I saw in the traffic stats a lot of links from Windows Live search.  So I checked all of the search engines and I am at the following positions on search engines for search “andrew messer” as of right now (this may be wrong […]

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Okay I’ve only been blogging about blogging lately, but seeing as there is still 45 minutes left in the first day of the second real month for this blog, I thought I should quickly go and check the search engines to see how much they love me.
Now for the search term “andrewmesser”, they love me […]

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I was reading Blogosis on his current move up the Alexa rank and I realised that traffic is so much more important than PageRank.  This flies in the face of what I read on SEOnoobs about Google’s sharemarket on searches.  But I still think it is true.
(Now note that I am saying traffic is more […]

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In response to Blogosis’ blogging goals, I thought it would be good to finally commit to some myself, because its the only way I’ll improve both my blog and my blogging activities.
So here they are (expiry/due date - December 31, 2008):

Get on the first page of Google for the keywords “Andrew Messer”
(Stay on the first […]

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This is becoming a bad habit, I’m getting concerned about my position on Google.  At last I am on page 3, at rank 22.  Here is the snapshot from Google.com.au.

I am still only 33 on Google.com, but perhaps they haven’t crawled again yet.  Anyone know if Google crawls differently in different countries? Let me know […]

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So I changed the blog’s name from AndrewMesser.com to Andrew Messer dot Com at the suggestion of Glen Allsopp, and since then Google has dropped my main page out of the index!  I see a link to the about page of this blog on page 6 (so a rank of 60+) of Google for the […]

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When I say I’m boring, I really mean that my blog is boring.  And it is mainly boring because I don’t spend enough time on it.  And that is because I have a day job.  Like this SEO guy.
I was reading Shoemoney.com today and got quite a laugh out of this post.  Now I am […]

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This is a follow-up to my post on 33 on google after no seo. I did a search on Yahoo! and found that it likes me more than Google at the moment, and has www.andrewmesser.com at number six for the search term “andrew messer”.

So, now it is time to start the SEO.  If only I […]

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Now in my first post I mentioned that I should try to get to the top Google spot for the search on my name, Andrew Messer. Since then I have done a grand total of ZERO SEO. I haven’t even tried to improve my rank or get any links from anyone. Yet I have started […]

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