Comments on: Hey Google, Where is Bryan Eisenberg?

By: Justin Roberts

Justin Roberts — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:53:35 +0000

An interesting story on the processes you went through get your site ranking. I would have thought you would have ranked well just from the domain name. You focused on offsite optimisation and link building. Looking around your site there are some onsite optimisation techniques you could implement which may help you climb further.

Justin – Big Click Studios

By: Johann

Johann — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:01:19 +0000

Put "Bryan Eisenberg" as text at the top of each page. You currently have your main image there. My recommendation would be to replace that image with text and use CSS image replacement to replace the text with the original image. Bonus Info: List of CSS replacement methods (archive.org) .-= Johann´s last blog ..Colors of Search Engines =-.

By: Joe Perez

Joe Perez — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:28:16 +0000

A humble suggestion is to submit your blog and RSS feed to these directories - RSSMage and Best Blog Directories">Best Blog Directories. I have seen quantifiable results within 48 hours of submission. I have also linked to you from my blog. A link back would be greatly appreciated! (especially with the text 'Wordpress SEO') .-= Joe Perez´s last blog ..Social Networking Activity for November 8th =-.

By: Joe Perez

Joe Perez — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:54:17 +0000

A humble suggestion would be to submit your blog and RSS feed to these directories – RSSMage and Best Blog Directories. I have seen results in the SERP’s well within 48 hours from submission

I have also linked to you from my blog. It would be much appreciated if you would link back with the text ‘WordPress SEO’. Best of success Bryan, and let me know if those submissions help!! (btw, another juicy backlink directory is at http://www.loadededweb.com)

By: Raul Abad

Raul Abad — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:30:51 +0000

Hi Bryan,

The problem is that may be, you can not do the following:

1) redirect (by 301) EACH old page of your posts in "www.grokdotcom.com" to the correspondent page in your new site.

2) In Google WebMaster Tool change the domain from "www.grokdotcom.com" to your new site.

Can you do it?

If not, don´t worry becouse the only thing your new site will need is time.

Best regards,

Raul Abad
http://www.raulabad.com
.-= Raul Abad´s last blog ..Lecturas Recomendadas del viernes 04-09-2009 =-.

By: Vincent van der Lubb

Vincent van der Lubb — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:58:45 +0000

Hi Bryan,

yes, that sucks … and you may the one of the happy few, who will rate 1st after a while.

Might it be an interesting question to ask: what about others who are featured often in the media, that their personal site gets rated much lower? So other people define how you are seen? And your part of the story goes under? Are you being heard (when media act liked the tribunals of public opinion)?

What about after one dies, does one still want to rate first? Or one's descendants? When is our part of the story not ranked first anymore? Idea experiment: let's assume Hitler would have had a website, should he have ranked first? Should we be able to vote him down? What should Google do?

And thanks, I enjoy reading your thoughts,

Vincent

BTW I rate 2nd in LinkedIn for the search "Bryan Eisenberg". Your brother is on the third page … It's easy to see why though, the LinkedIn search engine is very simple. Maybe a next post?

By: Justin @ Palmer Web Marketing

Justin @ Palmer Web Marketing — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:48:18 +0000

Added your name and link to my blogroll, hopefully helps in a small way Keep up the great content.
.-= Justin @ Palmer Web Marketing´s last blog ..Getting Personal with your Customers =-.

By: john andrews

john andrews — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:54:07 +0000

This is why people should start including link adjustments and URL removals in their separation agreements. Many people leave their company with agreements that ensure smooth transition or neutralize future uncertainties regarding fairness, training of new staff, etc. Since we can usually predict where reputation rankings will be in cases like yours, why not plan to manage them as well, during the time when deals can be made?

I have often assumed Matt Cutts' blog is not on the root of his domain for that reason – he'll take the domain with him when he leaves, but may not have secured full rights to the blog content built as a Google employee. I don't know that, but I can see how that might have been a sticky point for legal when he started blogging on his own domain.

I can see negotiating a 301 redirect, an additional byline notice that "bryan has moved to here", or URL removal for the employee profile page, for example.
.-= john andrews´s last blog ..Google Closure.. will you register your code with the Borg? =-.

By: Jacques Warren

Jacques Warren — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:46:13 +0000

Since my business card only says "Just Google Me" with no contact information whatsoever, I bought my name on Adwords, since I could not control which specific organic results a person would get when searching for it. It costs me a few cents per click, and almost nothing per month to get a little more control, but I am of course an unknown, and this could probably be a prohibitive solution in your case

By: Jeff Sauer/Three Dee

Jeff Sauer/Three Dee — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:44:15 +0000

Hey Bryan,

Three Deep just updated one of our recent blog posts to link directly to you, FWIW. Love the new blog and hopefully we will cross paths in the near future.
.-= Jeff Sauer/Three Deep´s last blog ..Inferring Google Analytics Conversions when No Goals are Configured =-.