Ranking for Leyba

As an experiment in SEO, I figured I’d see how I’d rank for my name.   Of course I’m number one for my name “Joe Leyba” in all the major search engines.   Not much competition there.  So I recently set my sites on just my last name.  As of today, here’s where I rank in the major engines for “Leyba”:

Google – 10th  (as of 8/2011 I’m now 5th)

Yahoo – 2nd (since Bing took over I am not in the top 30)

Bing – Nowhere to be found (still nowhere to be found)

What’s most interesting to me is I can rank #1 in Bing for “Joe Leyba” but not rank in the top 100 for “Leyba”.  I’ll have to see what they hate me.

I know I’ve improved in Google because I checked how I ranked sometime last year and I was at #22.  I’ve never checked Yahoo or Bing before so I have no prior knowledge there.  For the most part I’ve neglected the domain.  I used it for image storage and experimenting at a cost of $4/month.  I’ve never been active in link building or trying to boost my awesome PageRank of 1.  So I’ll get a little more proactive and try to build my personal brand.  I’ll check back in a year to see if anything has changed.

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So it’s been a year.   Almost two in fact.  Now here’s my rankings.  PR is 2 now.  (whoo hoo, that doesn’t matter in the least).

Google – 5th

Yahoo – Since Bing took over I am not in the top 30

Bing – Still nowhere to be found

I’ve started to tweak the site a bit.  All my blog content was dropped because I somehow removed all my links to the blog.  Got that fixed this morning.  I’m sure Google will get the site indexed rather quick.  I’m ranking well for my other sites so I’ll just call that a win.