When you search for “rachelle” on Google my site is the first to come up!!! Yes!!!!! I finally beat out that Rachelle Ferrell and Miniature Paintings by Wes & Rachelle Siegrist.
When you search for “rachelle” on Google my site is the first to come up!!! Yes!!!!! I finally beat out that Rachelle Ferrell and Miniature Paintings by Wes & Rachelle Siegrist.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Walt // Aug 28, 2003 at 11:19 pm
I have a long road ahead of me. I am currently the 31st “Walt”. There is some tough competition in my particular category.
2 rachelle // Aug 29, 2003 at 6:56 am
I remember there was a time when I used to search for my full name and your site, Walt, would outrank my own.
3 tien // Aug 29, 2003 at 7:38 am
why is “Arts > Animation > Anime > Titles > M > Marmalade Boy” at the top for the category?
i’m the 4th tien. strangely easy. and a lot of people seem to search for it too. also strange.
4 rachelle // Aug 29, 2003 at 7:41 am
try to be #1, it’s really not that easy. I’ve been hovering around #2, #3, #4 for years.
5 tien // Aug 29, 2003 at 12:12 pm
i do come up 2nd when searching for “mao’s book” though. but looking for just “mao” doesn’t seem to find me. damn chinese names and history.
6 Richard // Aug 29, 2003 at 1:14 pm
if you search for ‘richard bowden msoe’, my old defunct site is #1
actually ‘rachelle’ has been #1 for a while. i was going to mention it before, but i forgot.
7 mom // Aug 30, 2003 at 5:40 am
So Rachelle, what kind of things did you do to get to #1 ? There are 333,000 possible links ! So you’re 1 in 333,000 ! ! That’s pretty good, Hell, that’s GREAT !
8 MikeyC // Aug 30, 2003 at 3:56 pm
I’ve got the #1 ranking for the keyword ‘MikeyC’. However, I’m around #400 for the word ‘zeit’. The neat thing about being #1 is that you’re the “I’m Feeling Lucky” link on Google.
9 petrol // Sep 2, 2003 at 7:53 pm
You’re also hit #1 on search.yahoo.com
(Good spider, good 
10 tien // Sep 5, 2003 at 5:25 pm
woo! now i’m the #2 tien.
11 rachelle // Sep 5, 2003 at 7:12 pm
when you’re #1 let me know…
12 Ken Walker // Sep 8, 2003 at 12:17 am
We’re #1 for Ken Walker and Ken & Sarah Walker…only top 5 for Sarah Walker, though.

Coding your site with web standards definitely helps with this (such as putting “rachelle” in an <h1> tag somewhere). So does using your Google phrase as your name when you post on other people’s blogs.