Recent post on Fast Company talks about Google rankings for individual names.
On his journal, Neil Gaiman spoke about being Neil Number One. I went to Google and put in my name Kevin. I wasn't in the first hundred. But, when I put my last name I was surprised to find that I was Ohannessian Number One.
So of course I wanted to see how I ranked. When I just typed in "Jennifer" I was clearly outranked by Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Anniston, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Donnelly... oh, and Jennifer Furniture. But hey, I was pleased to find my blog listed at #46. Not too bad. I'm the first "Jennifer Rice" which is also pretty cool.
I think I was partly prompted to write this post because now I have 7 mentions of "Jennifer." We'll see if this helps my Google rank. :-)
The best thing to increase your rank for "Jennifer" would to have a lot of sites link to your site using the word "Jennifer" as the link text.
Posted by: Mark J | September 29, 2005 at 05:04 PM
That's funny because I'm pushing to be the #1 Jonathan. Currently at #41. Although, I am the #1 Snook.
On a sidenote, I used to know a Jennifer Rice...
Posted by: Jonathan Snook | September 21, 2005 at 07:40 PM
Jennifer - good luck on your pursuit of being the #1 Jennifer on Google. I'm still hoping to be the #1 Phil, but as long as Dr. Phil is part of the Oprah network, I will aim for being #2. Go Jennifer Go! (3 more Jennifer for you, 4 with that one).
Posted by: Phil Gerbyshak | September 21, 2005 at 07:31 PM
i would have to say that you are in major "play" mode today...have fun and good luck with driving those rankings...=]
Posted by: jbr | September 21, 2005 at 02:29 PM