Hi newbie here. Me? I’m just beginning to apply SEO tactics on my site to be visible in google. I’m just new to it, hope i can get there in time.
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@ burger!
wow Ryan, that must have been embarassing - did anyone ever say anything about this other person to you, wondering if it was you? Like when you started web development I’m assuming the site was still out there somewhere?
Google is not that important yet since I’m just a startup but it will be. At the moment, I’m optimizing more and more for web design in amsterdam but my blog is higher than my company website due to the higher pagerank.
As my company grows, I’ll focus more on SEO for my own name and company.
As for my name, Google it and most of my profiles and entire life is on the first page.
Talk about amusing translations, what’s your healthcare system called? McDonald’s with fries?
That would be the American Healthcare System, Alex. : )
Burger-- someone from a city, not a farmer or some uniformed job/special status. Originally way back, a burg was a castle, but a castle housed some kind of lord who usually had a city or town that was his, and the people in there were burgers. You still see this in some German cities’ names (Hamburg). Nowadays it just means a citizen or someone who lives somewhere (burgers van sometown/area/country).
Wanna hear another one? Y’know why you have “bank tellers” when they don’t tell you anything? Because they tel (count). Tellen = to count. Likely also the root of the word dollar (taler) is the same as the root of tellen.
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No, those are people who burgle. Hamburgler!
Well, there’s only one me in the whole world. So when I google my name, all I find is me. There’s a lot of me… 
Yes, I’ve once found my facebook profile with a picture at #1 spot. I’ve instinctively changed the privacy settings and took it down. Not that there was anything wrong with it but…
Now there are lots of other results that aren’t me (actually there’s just one that is related to me), and someone else’s facebook profile is now #1.
If I was using my name as a brand or if I was at least using my full name online in public space, I’d spread the word on the web about how great I am and make sure that’s the only thing that can be found in top results.
On the contrary, that’s a good reason to start being concerned about your PR. So you’ve been paranoid about your privacy all these years, and all of a sudden another Hazel with the same last name comes online and creates a blog about how she breeds and exports leprechauns to the north pole for underpaid elf labor. Now you’ve suddenly become a leprechaun smuggler.
If your name is important to you for any reason, be it potential employers or clients Googling you, you’d better start posting about yourself and a lot, to push those horrible results to the oblivion.
What’s to stop other people spreading FUD about you on the Internet? You can’t protect your privacy when clearly anyone can say anything about anyone they do or don’t know and to any potential employer it’s worth using as “evidence”, I know of ACTUAL cases where employers have refused to employ someone on the basis of opinions or hearsay about a person without a shred of evidence to back up the claims. There’s no point covering up your privacy on that basis, it’s like trying to keep the titanic afloat using hugs and kisses. All this effort your putting into protecting yourself for employment is pretty useless if all it takes is some untrue web trolling or slander to ruin your career prospects… just be as open as possible and throw your hands in the air, because you don’t stand a chance.
PS: Mizwizzy no longer exports leprechauns since they’ve been listed as an endangered species, now she complies with all applicable preservation laws. 
That is if someone puts more effort into slandering you than you put effort to build your PR. Unless someone really really doesn’t like you, you should be able to drown them in the shadow of your greatness
Which makes it even worse, if she chooses not to comply, which she might, just to be extra bad@ss.
its not easy to find yourself on google and if you put it through blogger or facebook your identity is online ha ha ha
That’s actually really interesting Saul, getting cached on google indirectly - whether through social networking or friends - ooh thats a tricky one alright :scratch: I like that idea too if you are going to be putting yourself out there make sure that you do have positive results, thats good thinking I like that approach :tup:
I don’t use my name for anything really other than my magnificent existence 
My business name takes care of my online presence and most of my work is word of mouth anyways or through my own networking - so for me I don’t market my name at all
@ leprechauns! :x
Surely if someone posted content about you online that was illegal or untrue, if you found that person you could sue or charge them with defamation, loss of earnings or something? :scratch:
haw haw @ your reply to Saul :x
Some people say that even if the publicity is bad it’s still good, the more people talk about you the better regardless of the material being bad - i’m not sure i’m completely convinced of that yet especially when it comes to employment opportunities - but then again you have that whole advertising platform that may be desirable to clients :hush:
Yes, it’s what you do with that publicity that matters. Turning bad publicity around with all the attention to your favour is an art.
But you can also screw up and get hurt.
No. It disappeared long before I knew that a web page even had code.
Interestingly the other person’s occupation was a web developer also. If you hunt a few dozen pages down a search for my name in Google there is a single page advertising his services still. I’m not sure if he’s still in the industry, but if he is, he’s not using his name to market himself … or he’s pretending to me 
would you ever consider contacting him?
Yes. But I’ve never found any contact details for him directly. Because of the nature of his business interests he may not have wanted to be contactable.
I think if you have a blog, business or website then its okay to be “very Googleable” but if its about your name (full name) then I don’t think its alright. Too much information can backfire…and scammers can always use it to scam you or your family members.
I feel the same! Except my parents, yes, I wouldnt want my parents to read everything about what i do - and im in my thirties!
I fall into the same Range as Alex, if anyone Googles my name including my last name there are many, many out there with my last name. I even came across a attractive Blonde with the same last name who some could say “maybe that is sister” 
although she isn’t !
I’ve been pretty good at controlling the information that I put online what you find out about me is exactly what I want you to find out about me. Although I can’t control someone taking a picture of me outside and posting it on there FaceBook page with everyone having some form of mobile device that can almost cook them breakfast, lunch and supper it’s not a surprise.
You can have some control over your information that you post online, there are many people who I have Google and I can’t find nothing on them so it’s not true that you can find out about everyone, mostly those who are active and open online or younger folk who seem so free spirited to post anything and everything and then wonder or will wonder why it’s going to come back and haunt them.
yeah i feel sorry for those guys who are a bit naive and innocent when it comes to the www! :confused2
Is it not illegal for someone to take a picture of you like that and post it on the web without your permission? :scratch: