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.
Hi there!
What are the benefits of being higher up in the search?
If they see my blog on the page then they can still click in and go to my site…in the same amount of time. Right?
You have more than 250 contacts on LinkedIn?? OH-MY-GOSH! I feel like such an underachiever!
This is my first visit to your site, and I really like what I see. If you haven’t done it already, perhaps you’ll consider writing a “LinkedIn 101″ post. I think it would be widely read.
You have an impressive site. Keep up the great work!
By the way, I’m adding you to my blogroll. Feel free to add me to yours.
Hey there Deb! Good to hear from you. Actually if you go to the “Categories” column to the right and click on the LinkedIn link you can look up my “LinkedIn Tips” post. The links there will also lead you to more resources.
Thanks for chiming in and hope you become a regular reader.
Let me find where do I stand?
Hey there BWBTT. The benefits of page rank are multiple and various.
For instance, say that someone has heard of your sight but doesn’t know the extension (.com, .net, .edu) or format of your URL (with or with the www, or maybe .blogspot on the end) when try to find you. When they do a phrase search your site is more likely to come up listed higher on the first page of listings that a given search engine displays.
The first page is critical because not everyone is going to be patient enough to wade through multiple search pages beyond page 1 or 2 or 3 to find what they are looking for.
The other thing that helps is using frequently used keywords in your post. If you have lots of readers who comment frequently the search engines reward that high level of activity with higher rankings as well.
Of course having a unique name like yours probably reduces the search competition too. I just googled your site name and you’re #1. Your site also shows up a lot in reference to others having read your site.
So you’re already there. Just continue to keep up the good work and as always, fine tune with the occasional good tip that comes across your path.
Yeah Shirazi. Definitely take a look and see where you stand.