By that I specifically mean, how close to the top of the search are you when someone Google’s your name? My bloginess and virtualness is improving. As of this day, Friday, March 13, 2009, here’s how I’m looking.
My URL www.martinlindsey.com is #1. Even got somebody specing me a price to work on giving it some updated content in the near future. It’s going to become a practical tool for me once again. I bet there are a bunch of other Martin Lindsey’s out there who were slow purchasing the domain wondering, “Why is this guy blowing a perfectly good URL?!?!”. To that I say, Dr. Evil style, “muwahaha!, whahaha!, muwahahahaaa!!!”
My blog, MartyBLOGs, is #3. Not posting on my own site or commenting on others nearly as much as I should. Maybe when I get back into full time school mode again in the fall I can throw in some more consistent bloggy activity during the school day. Social networking is taking up the majority of my online time these days in prep for the big move of course.
My LinkedIn profile is #4. Not surprising since I’ve been doing a considerable amount of networking with it including building up my contact list to 250+ and making some actual practical contacts. I’ve mostly focused on fellow computer scientists, digi-artists and arts patrons many of whom will comprise my next professional life.
Actually there are a bunch of us Martin Lindsey’s from around the world at that #4 LinkedIn position. So if you want to be sure to nab my profile on a search, it’s the indentation under the general listing. (So does that really make me 4-1/2? O.K. I’m thinking too hard now.)
I assume my facebook account is helping too since we can add web links to it. Hopefully people are clicking those links and finding out what else I’m into. And similarly on my LinkedIn profile. The only link I’ve neglected is my amazon.com seller’s account Legacy Book Sellers so I’m adding that where ever there’s space in all those other spots.
These are just a few ideas that seem to be working for me. Try them out for yourself for practical effect. Network your networks and see if you can’t make all your web ships rise together.
