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Alex McArthur.com

March 2nd, 2007 at 1:16 am

Google Bookmarks in Personalized Serps

I noticed “search history” placed in the serps today. This may have been around for a week or months, however, I haven’t come across any news on the subject. Long story…but, I login to my google account on one machine while performing searches on another so I don’t notice many changes to personalized search.

Take a look at this image.

Google bookmarks in serps

The HTML tips (mouseover text) show the link from “companies-of-interest” directing to http://www.google.com/searchhistory/lookup?q=label:%22companies-of-intereset%22. Interestingly enough, “companies-of-interest” is one of my bookmarks. Hmmm … those search junkies out there will probably catch on to the relevance.

January 8th, 2007 at 3:51 pm

How did you become an SEO?

Check out these 10 steps to becoming an SEO. Hilarious.

April 19th, 2006 at 5:49 pm

Trusted Search Engine Marketing Resources

For those of you into SEO you are all to familiar with the various perspectives on the subject. I’ve decided to start building a trusted list of SEO resources and would appreciate other takes.

  • seomoz - This site is my personal favorite. These guys take a refreshing approach to the industry.
  • Cre8asiteForums - A longtime favorite among many SEOs.
  • SearchEngineWatch
  • added 4/20/2006 - Matt Cutts - Whether planned or not, Matt has become an authority in the search industry. He was one of the first google employees and has a knack for “leaking” information on updates.

Each comment will be reviewed and potentially added to the list.

December 13th, 2005 at 1:27 pm

Movin’ On Up

Great news for those of you following my attempts to surpass Alex McArthur the actor in SERPs (search engine result pages). About 2 months ago this domain was floating around the 10th page for search results on “Alex McArthur”. At the time AlexMcArthur.com consisted of one static page with very limited content. I’ve since turned this site into a blog with SEO friendly pages and it quickly jumped to number 2 on most search engines. Also, I took some time to submit to numerous directories and acquire a handful of linkbacks. It will be interesting to see what this sites PR (page rank) is after the next update. I expect a small jump to 2, maybe 3 if I’m lucky.

As far as the Alex McArthur (me) vs Alex McArthur (actor) challenge goes it appears a long road lays ahead. I’m sure there will be ups and downs along the way, but hopefully before I die he will feel the pain of being #2. The actor’s fan site has numerous linkbacks that will take me some time to outdo. Why do people have to be so obsessed with movie actors? Quit linking to the schmuk! Desperado wasn’t that good!

This site is optimized fairly well. I’m sure I could do some tweaking and include a few more keywords, but my first priority is to get as many linkbacks as possible. Too bad I have a job and a family or I could spend all day getting links. This site isn’t very high on my to-do list so be patient. However, it will be interesting to see what happens over time.

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