Since my optimization efforts yesterday, I have had a lot of people add me into their Circles, no doubt because of the mass circling I did in my last update. To be exact 25 people added my SEO Positive profile to their Circles. Also as a little side note, Google picked up on my profile name, which was SEO Positive. I thought it was ok to have this but I was forced to change it to my actual name which is Lewis SEO Positive, a little cheeky I know but worth a go right? I have also set a nickname as SEO Positive, instead of SEO Services.
For those that have missed my previous updates, here is part 1, and here is part 2.
25 people have added the SEO Positive profile into their Circles, a high majority of the new connections where already in my cCrcles which would most likely be the reason for the mass connections.
| Keywords | Current Position | Previous Position | Movement |
| SEO | 59 | 54 | -5 |
| SEO UK | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| UK SEO | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| SEO Company | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| SEO Companies | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| SEO Services | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Unfortunately, there has been a negative impact for the term SEO, 5 positions where lost. All other positions have stayed put which is great. I think the position drop could be down to the profile name change but that is not certain, competitors could be overtaking the SEO Positive profile.
Something I did notice is that the profile now shows up in the “Everything” section and looks a little something like this.
This is great exposure because it’s the default option to appear when searching, as far as I know we show up like this in the search results for the terms: SEO UK, SEO Companies and SEO Services. As I have not noticed this before, I did not even know this type of listing was possible, I cannot say what has caused this. However these 3 terms I show in position 1 in the people listings, which leads me to believe that it is strongly connected.
Conclusion
Being in other users’ Circles appear to not have an effect on the rankings, however it will have an effect on whoever has added me and the results that appear. I imagine mutual friends will experience some change too, but I will look into this in the near future.
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