It worked!

We're making progress! I was definitely number 1 for a couple days last week (Thursday and Friday at least). Currently I'm back down at slot 3, but clearly a big change has occurred. I'm actually owning spots 3 *and* 4 at the moment, result 4 being indented as you see below (click image to link through). The old title (Joseph Anthony Cannella III) is still showing up from the past, but I expect at some point for that to be phased out. We'll see.



So we've learned that simply mentioning "joe cannella" many times in the blog posts did not have NEARLY as much impact as making it the title of the page. Make sense!

There are still yet other factors to overcome, seeing as the two results above me are a pool tournament bracket (go Dad!) and a legal document from the Dept. of Education on Cannella Schools of Hair Design (definitely not Dad).

And since there has been so much movement of my position in general, let's define success - one full week at number 1, without moving around, and we'll put this one in the books (unless, of course I get bumped). But I'm getting ahead of myself. Third isn't good enough.

Next step: I'm going to "Digg Myself" for the first time! Very exciting stuff I'm learning. It seems only a handful of people I know are on Digg (the usual suspects are very active) so I don't know what impact this would have. Maybe its time to start promoting the ole blog to friends & family?