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

By Vlad Zablotskyy March 13, 2007

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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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27 Comments

By 45n5, March 13, 2007 @ 7:18 am

The 11th most popular Vlad in the world! Congrats.
By 45n5, March 13, 2007 @ 8:18 am

The 11th most popular Vlad in the world! Congrats.
By Vlad, March 13, 2007 @ 8:24 am

Thanks Mark. Only according to Google though!
By Vlad, March 13, 2007 @ 9:24 am

Thanks Mark. Only according to Google though!
By Chris M, March 13, 2007 @ 11:20 am

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).
By Vlad, March 13, 2007 @ 11:26 am

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.
By Chris M, March 13, 2007 @ 12:20 pm

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).
By Vlad, March 13, 2007 @ 12:26 pm

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.
By Andy Beard, March 13, 2007 @ 2:02 pm

Actually you are doing better than you thought

You are showing 10th here on Google.com and 19th on Google.pl
By Vlad, March 13, 2007 @ 2:04 pm

lol Thanks Andy!

I guess its much harder to compete with those Poles
By Andy Beard, March 13, 2007 @ 3:02 pm

Actually you are doing better than you thought

You are showing 10th here on Google.com and 19th on Google.pl
By Vlad, March 13, 2007 @ 3:04 pm

lol Thanks Andy!

I guess its much harder to compete with those Poles
By Mark from Bloglyne.com, March 13, 2007 @ 4:41 pm

Congratulations Vlad – I tried to do a search for my fist name but after about 10,000 I gave up *grins*
By Mark from Bloglyne.com, March 13, 2007 @ 5:41 pm

Congratulations Vlad – I tried to do a search for my fist name but after about 10,000 I gave up *grins*
By Vlad, March 13, 2007 @ 8:16 pm

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.
By Vlad, March 13, 2007 @ 9:16 pm

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.
By Fraser Edwards, March 15, 2007 @ 9:58 am

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!
By Fraser Edwards, March 15, 2007 @ 10:58 am

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!
By Vlad, March 15, 2007 @ 11:06 am

Thanks Fraser,
If it is of any help I use “dofollow” plugin in my comment area
By Vlad, March 15, 2007 @ 12:06 pm

Thanks Fraser,
If it is of any help I use “dofollow” plugin in my comment area
By Fraser Edwards, March 16, 2007 @ 8:06 am

Ah yeah – you are right! I should be taking part in discussion a bit more
By Fraser Edwards, March 16, 2007 @ 9:06 am

Ah yeah – you are right! I should be taking part in discussion a bit more
By Vlad, March 16, 2007 @ 11:03 am

well it will depend if I put out anything worthy of dicussion

Thanks for your support!
By Vlad, March 16, 2007 @ 12:03 pm

well it will depend if I put out anything worthy of dicussion

Thanks for your support!
By ann, July 4, 2007 @ 3:40 pm

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
By ann, July 4, 2007 @ 4:40 pm

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