Daily Brad, the blog

Renaming my blog for better search engine recognition

Tweet Sweet made it to the top!
So I make it an effort to check at least every few days where my search rankings fall in Google and Yahoo. I’ve even started checking MSN, though I don’t get as much traffic generated through them. I’ve been checking Tweet Sweet (my other blog) and its location, and making every effort possible to get to the top of the term “Tweet Sweet”, which finally happened on their last crawl.

Brad McCall maintains its top ranking
I’ve maintained top ranking for a while with any search for “Brad McCall” (my portfolio site). I make it a joke with my friends who say they lost contact with me by telling them to type my name in any search engine… yeah, that was hard wasn’t it? Back in the day when I started bradmccall.com, I got listed on DMOZ which I hear is actually quite difficult to do now. DMOZ (the open directory project) still feeds into a lot of smaller home-baked search engines as well as some of the big daddies. Since it’s managed by people it’s suppose to be more accurate. At the time, there were tons of “search engine submission” services around the web, one of which I used to get my URL out there. (MyComputer.com) I look at the SEO process now, and it’s quite apparent how things have changed in how things are done. This “submission” service back then was like $50.00, and recently I got an email from i need hits that offered it for $1.97. Thus, the “submission only” service’s effectiveness in today’s SEO market.

Where’s Brad’s Blog?
But I’m off subject (what’s new with that?) My point is, Tweet Sweet and Brad McCall have both made it to the top of the search engines. So what’s my next step? (For them, it’s probably keyword optimization for specific terms) But for me, I wanted to see where this blog ranks. I didn’t spend much time thinking about about a name for this blog, I just typed “Brad’s Blog” and launched it. In this morning’s search for “Brad’s Blog” Google came up with 105,000 results, some of which I could probably never throw off the top of the heap. So I tried another phrase I’ve used many times before “Daily Brad” (a play on the prayer “give us this day our daily bread”). Looks like there was just under 32,000 searches with this term - 2 of which seemed to offer the most competion. Thus, more success in getting listed in the top 5.

So today “Brad’s Blog” became “Daily Brad”. My only concern? Now I’ve set the expectation for daily posts… goodness. I guess I better start pouring out those ideas, observations, and general stuff that keeps rambling through my brain.

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