1 On Google - It only took 10 months!

I have been really battling with getting ranked on google over the last 10 months. I have had a couple of pages on page one, but it was very hit-and-miss.
Since starting SWAG, I have being getting listed in hours and have had one or two articles listed in the top 30 on google and page 1 on Bing and Yahoo But I have really been doubting myself as it is so hit-and-miss.
I went through Kyle and Jay's training s (paying special attention to my concentration) and came up with my own Check sheet that consists of aspects of Jay's and Kyle's training s. I have turned it into a check sheet and complete the check sheet, Keyword results and SERP results and I now keep the sheet for each page.
So, Yesterday I paid special attention to my headline using Coschedule's Write Better Headlines, I did all the research with Jaaxy and Google and published my post. Not yet done, I submitted to Google+ and Fetch as google.
All this done, I switched off the PC and went to spend some time with the "Old Girl", not expecting any miracles once again. Boy, was I wrong!
This Morning I switched on and found an email stating, as is now usual "Awesome, Your Content is Indexed in Google!". I then did something I haven't done in weeks ( I watched Kyle's SWAG Video yesterday), I checked to see if I could find it on Google. It turned up as No 1, but as I was logged into Google I did not think it was the true ranking so I opened a Google incognito page and tried again.
Lo and behold, It was still there. Not satisfied, I went to JAAXY and :-( not found.... But if I type in the correct domain name.... No 3 on google. So JAAXY found it at 3 but Google places it at 1. I'll take that as a win.
So I am Smiling again.
Wishing you all Sunny Days and huge smiles
Bryanb
Thanks for the insight.
All the best!
Michelle :)
All the best,
Sue