Personal Profiles in search engines

[Chatmaster]

I recently read an article about the importance of ranking well for your own name in search engines. Apparently business people tend do do some research before meeting you. So how well do you rank for your own name?

[Blazingpie]

Well, the nature of my surname (double-barrelled and the first half is a common first name too) means I get a lot of rubbish in the results, although 1st place is an entry in namesdatabase.com

Also, you you removed my name and replaced it with the initials of my first and second name, you get far more accurate results (seeing how for practically all of my life i've been called by my initials and not my actual name). searching for my initials and surname brings up the website of my karate instructor :)

[Paz]

LOL... well for some names it's not so easy. I'm in 8 of the top 10 for C P Parry (http://www.google.com/search?q=C+P+Parry&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official), but no one will search for that unfortunately!

My son, Ender Parry (http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hs=BpZ&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=Ender+Parry&btnG=Search) does much better though, but he has his own domain, and I'm sure he gets a little boost for that!

Cheers,
Paz.

[Koz]

Well if you search for my name in google.com or .za (world results) the first two results bring up a collie breader in the UK. Strangly enough, in third place is my name but the link is Squido's tag search page for SEO (i have a squido lense) - weird. But in google.co.za (sa results) brings up an article I did for Digital Marketing SA.


.... and that is my life story.