Time to do another snapshot of where things are at. Same conditions as usual. Rankings do bounce around a lot, and I am only viewing them from my own searching perspective (affecting locality). I am not logged in to Google when searching, so hopefully it doesn’t tailor the answers by detecting who I am some other way.
Also of note is that I am still checking both Yahoo! and Bing results separately even though they are rapidly approaching 100% identical as their Search Alliance nears completion.
Page 1: bad results at #3,6 (out of 10)
Page 2: none
Page 3: #2
Page 1: none (out of 10)
Page 2: #1, #8
Page 3: #3, #10
Page 1: none (out of 10)
Page 2: #1, #8
Page 3: #3, #10
Page 1: #1, #4 (my ad is low on credit so no ads this time.)
Page 2: #2
Page 3: none!
One continuous page: result #8, 10, 13 out of a total of 28 results.
So what do I think of the results at the moment? Minor improvements on DuckDuckGo, and Yahoo!/Bing are much better.
The Google results are much more disappointing, although not all bad news. While the bad results on the first page have climbed somewhat, out of the top 30 results, the count is down by one and the other link is disappearing down the stack. On Ask, the search rankings have only gotten worse, and in particular I am disappointed that I am being outranked by a no longer maintained blog.
What to do next? There is more positive content up relating to me, and I’ve also done some more cross linking today. Hopefully that will assist. Also, I need to consider legal avenues on content removal – not sure what my options are in all cases. I’ve been assured that some of the content will come down shortly, but the two remaining blogs are my biggest issue and I need to see what my legal options are here. Questions are:
- Is this libel or something else? i.e. how do I legally define this issue.
- How do I get an international court order for take-down of the content?