I’m #1 (or at least some of my sites are)

As I’ve noted in this space in the past, one of the big achievement for someone practicing search engine optimization is to achieve a #1 organic ranking in Google. This means that when a user types in a keyword or keyphrase, the site you’re optimizing comes up as the first result in Google. It’s a pretty solid indication of quality work and directs a lot of traffic to a site.

I’m proud to say that I’ve recently found that I’ve achieved 8 #1 organic rankings in Google for keywords related to my iPod site for About.com.

Those keywords are (click the link to see a screenshot):

• restart iphone - note that my site is ranked ahead of Apple
• iphone help
• how to reset iphone - ahead of Apple again
• reboot iphone
• reformat ipod
• transfer itunes - ahead of Apple
• aac vs. mp3
• frozen iphone - ahead of Apple