about

Adam Karas

I can be reached at: adam at adamkaras dot com

I currently work in manhattan and live in Hell’s Pantry.

Other locations I have planted my flag include Bayonne, Boulder, Brooklyn, Brussels, Denver, Hoboken, Hong Kong, & Sinagpore.

A few of the places I have worked are Iguana Studios (defunct dotcom interactive agency), and Answerthink (consulting company who overpaid then liquidated their online agency department; formally Think Inc of Adam Curry fame).

One (albeit small) goal of this blog is to become the number one search on Google for my name. As of Oct-2005, I don’t show in the top 40 on Google, but was #13 on Yahoo and #4 on MSN (according to googlerankings). But I am a bit of data freak, so I am tracking this in regards to Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In June, 2006 I accomplished this goal.

Thanks to Loudpoet for pointing out EgoSurf, adding a whole new level to this endeavor. With a score of only 3,300 points out of a possible 15K, I know I am pretty low on the ego scale! I even only got the 3,300 the first time I searched, now I’m coming in at 2,500.

GoogleRankings

June 2006: G hits #1, along with M, but Y is at 3.

Keyword: adam karas URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 1
Yahoo: Position: 3
MSN: Position: 1

Keyword: “adam karas” URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 1
Yahoo: Position: 5 (#1 is my LinkedIn page)
MSN: Position: 1

Google Page Rank: 4/10
Number of Backlinks: 2

Top 5 Google results: adam karas

  1. My site
  2. College football player card on ESPN
  3. Polish photographer on fotocommunity.com
  4. His website
  5. Milkwaukee Area Tech College baseball game summary

Top 5 Yahoo results: adam karas

  1. College football player stats on SI as WR
  2. College football player stats on SI as QB
  3. My Newsvine post
  4. My ack category page
  5. Polish photographer website

Top 5 MSN results: adam karas

  1. My About page
  2. My home page
  3. A brother and sister blog, “Kara’s and Adam”
  4. My Amazon wish list
  5. A game highlight for a eastern Mass hockey player.

So I finally beat out the College (and HS), baseball and hockey players, so sports are the way to get your name in print. I’m getting a dozen spam comments a day, and am very grateful to Akismet for blocking all but three so far. The biggest impact was putting my name in the page title, as well as blogging stories on Digg.com.

Results from GoogleRankings.

June 2006: G hits #1, along with M, but Y is at 3.

Keyword: adam karas URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 1
Yahoo: Position: 3
MSN: Position: 1

Keyword: “adam karas” URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 1
Yahoo: Position: 5 (#1 is my LinkedIn page)
MSN: Position: 1

Google Page Rank: 4/10
Number of Backlinks: 2

April 2006: G remains at 6, and now have a Page Rank and Backlinks.

Keyword: adam karas URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 6
Yahoo: Position: 2
MSN: Position: 1

Keyword: “adam karas” URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 6
Yahoo: Position: 3
MSN: Position: 1

Google Page Rank: 4/10
Number of Backlinks: 2

March 2006: G went from 3 down to 6… back to the drawing board.

Keyword: adam karas URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 6
Yahoo: Position: 12
MSN: Position: 1

Keyword: “adam karas” URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 7
Yahoo: Position: 9
MSN: Position: 6

Google Page Rank: 0
Number of Backlinks: 0

Feburary 2006: Neglected to update January, but the G goal is getting close.

Keyword: adam karas URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 3
Yahoo: Position: 19
MSN: Position: 1

Keyword: “adam karas” URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 5
Yahoo: Position: 6
MSN: Position: 7

Google Page Rank: 0
Number of Backlinks: 0

December 2005 update: Where the quoted search makes more sense now… and I may be #10 on G but in reality it’s still page 2, so more work to be done…

Keyword: adam karas URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 10
Yahoo: Position: 21
MSN: Position: 1

Keyword: “adam karas” URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 10
Yahoo: Position: 20
MSN: Position: 5

November 2005: As a comparison, where I cracked the G-40, but only without the quotes…

Keyword: adam karas URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 37
Yahoo: Position: 23
MSN: Position: 1

Keyword: “adam karas” URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 0
Yahoo: Position: 31
MSN: Position: 9

October 2005: The first full month of this blog:

Keyword: “adam karas” URL Pattern: adamkaras.com
Google: Position: 0
Yahoo: Position: 13
MSN: Position: 4

Header graphic credit goes to NYBuffs.com.

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