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 Wondering if a lot of people search their name in the engines. I do every once in a while. I did this morning and noticed my Gooruze profile was on the first page (out of 20,000 results). Has anyone found some interesting things when doing this? | ||
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November 2007 Another interesting question would be how many people are searching for your name.
When I have some downtime, I'd like to run some GAdW and YSM PPC campaigns to see how many impressions my name would collect. I'd also insert some analytics tracking code on the landing page. If I ever do, this little project would make a fun Gooruze article. I'd also use YSM's DMA geo-targeting feature and select all locations so that the "Performance by Geographic Location / City & Surrounding Area" reports can show where the searches originated from even if the user didn't click on the PPC ad (sneaky, but analytics in general is too in some ways).  Reply
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November 2007 It is really funny. http://www.naymz.com/
Will do ALL that for you if you sign up with membership. They will even create a PPC ad for you. $4.95/month (1st month FREE, cancel anytime) $47.50/year (Pay now and save 20%) Reply
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November 2007 No 1 result from duncan riley, No 7 on Google.com for just duncan, but I was told at the weekend that I'm No.1 for duncan on google.com.au..which I've since confirmed. (no.3 for riley) The answer to your question is yes, and I'm loving every minute, even if my PR is down the gurgler thanks to TLA
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November 2007 I'll admit to doing that, though I have a fairly common name and a lot of the results that turn up are not me. Some are, however, and it can be kinda weird seeing all my different activity all over the internet catalogued in one place...
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October 2007 Small tip to new folks looking to register. use a '-' between your name (Marc-Loveridge) when you sign up as it will be treated as a space by google. This means if people search for your name (or brand) ie "Marc Loveridge" then you are more likely to rank highly. Reply
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October 2007 You just let out the old SEO trick. For those who do not know, when naming pages of your site dashes are best, then all one word. page-name.html is better for SEO than pagename.html Reply
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November 2007 On a sidenote, per Matt Cutts, underscores in file names are now IDed as word separators:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9748779-7.html Programmers and SEM professionals can finally get along: no more hyphen vs. underscore battling! Reply
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November 2007 Sorry to keep the "battling" going, but you should still not use underscores. Even when Google formally claims that they will be treated the same, you still shouldnt use underscores for usability reasons because they get lost in underlines. http://www.underscores_Look_Like_Spaces_In_links.htm
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November 2007 Absolutely agreed. I don't you think should feel sorry though. Constructive "battles" are healthy, especially for our community.
I brought this up because the IT people I worked with in the past were more underscore-prone, and when a site is born with underscores, I've run into resistance when it comes to changing naming conventions to hyphens. In other words, this was part of a 50-50 compromise to make other site changes happen. Reply
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October 2007 great point, didn't realize you guys allowed dashes in your member names when I was signing up
 most do not let you. Is it too late to change mine, lol ? Reply
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November 2007 Checked our Google Aanalytics and looks like your referring a fair bit of traffic Brian despite no space in your username. That must make you a pretty heavily searched guy, imagine the traffic we'd be getting if you were Brian-Chappell. We can change your name at the db level but you'd need to change any links you have out there (eg on your blog) to your new member page address. Do you want us to change it or are you happy staying as you are?
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November 2007 Which brings up ANOTHER great point. When changing your page names, make sure you 301 redirect them to the new page. A 301 redirect (not a 302 or meta redirect) will carry the weight of all the backlinks to the new page. Reply
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November 2007 yep already suggested that ;)
Hope they can do that. otherwise the bots might be confused which one should rank. ie. dup content. Reply
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October 2007 On a recent post about online privacy, Brian Solis pointed out to Dan Wei's Full Plate's blog where the guy thought about building a social resume, meaning controlling the first SE results of your name to take potential employers on the pages you want them to go when they type your name to find informal info about you.
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October 2007 I do search for my own name in Google every once in a while ... although as a part of my "branding" strategy, I am more concerned with ranking #1 in google for "internet genius".
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October 2007 Ben
Do people actually do a search for "internet genius" without having heard about you? Or is it just people searching for your brand once they have heard about you and are considering using you? By the way, it's a good domain to have, but you have a lot to live up to now! ;) Clay Reply
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October 2007 My name is too common to really get any decent results. I do google other people though and mine with a bunch of terms with it.
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October 2007 i do every now and then
i have not tried to increase my google rep though. I guess i should! i am competing with a musician who is fairly heavily into promoting himself on the web. Reply
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