A friend had a good idea to include the actual results, so I included those under the summary. The longer term tracking is on the About page.
Results from GoogleRankings.
March 2006: G went from 3 to 6… back to the drawing board.
Keyword: adam karas URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 6
Yahoo: Position: 12
MSN: Position: 1Google Page Rank: 0
Number of Backlinks: 0Keyword: “adam karas” URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 7
Yahoo: Position: 9
MSN: Position: 6Google Page Rank: 0
Number of Backlinks: 0
Top 5 Google results: adam karas
Top 5 Yahoo results: adam karas
Top 5 MSN results: adam karas
So MSN is my friend and for some reason doesn’t like the college player. I plan on adding my name to the page titles to see if that helps, since I know Google places higher value on it. Next month will show the impact of that.