Comments on: What Does Google Say About You?

By: Replica Rolex

Replica Rolex — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:08:05 +0000

I enjoyed reading your work! GREAT post! I looked around for this… but I found you! :) Anyway, would you mind if I threw up a backlink from my site at whiterabbitcult.com to your site?

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:58:22 +0000

great post Darren!

I have to work on my seo for my new blog!

great information.

I love your style of writing… very direct and informative.

David King,

http://davidbeking.com

By: Delima

Delima — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:09:37 +0000

hmm… specially in business at least everything should be positive, i already tried a service like this in a certain company called MYeReputation.com last 2 years ago and they are great. Your online reputation is very important when speacially your doing business online

By: Robert L. Gisel

Robert L. Gisel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:23:53 +0000

Well, it seems a correct spelling of the URL in the WYSIWIG makes a difference. For some reason, on the comments I gave before, when you click on my name goes to a typo “Wko” for “Who” so you don’t get to WhoWouldWrite.blogspot.com. So no one gets a laugh from my Blogger Un-Dictionary. What a Waste!

Moral of the story: Type it right!

WhoWouldWrite.blogspot.com

By: Cris Cuthbertson

Cris Cuthbertson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:10:07 +0000

This was a really inspiring post. I am a real-world doctor and I started to think about how this is important for professionals as well as bloggers. I don’t make much money out of my blogs yet, so I don’t want my professional “brand” diluted by my blog promotion.

I guess there are some people reading this site that are in the same situation of having to have their offline career and brand continue full steam while their blogging sideline grows.

I think that the archaic concept of a home page, updated by many now as an online resume is very useful to doctors and other professionals. I can use Darren’s techniques to promote it, and I no longer have any confusion about which address to put in my sig line when posting.

I have expanded more on this topic here:
http://applequack.com/2008/06/17/why-real-world-professionals-need-an-online-brand/

By: Phil Sexton

Phil Sexton — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:37:57 +0000

Thanks for the tips! I’ve only linked to the about page a couple of times. Time to pick it up!

By: Robert L Gisel

Robert L Gisel — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:54:48 +0000

I got so excited there about being able to do an embedded link now I forgot waht we were talking about.

Earlier there was a comment but I couldn’t locate it jsut now scrolling up – the one that it would be a good idea from time to time to Google one’s one name keep aprised of what comes up. This so true.

When I first Googles my name nothing really came up the was me. Now I tried it again and found someone had referred to my name from a blog comment where I was no longer getting the info on new comments. This was good refewrence and good news as I had actually wanted to connect back up with that blogger’s interesting blog.

So yeah, Google yersef!!

By: Robert L Gisel

Robert L Gisel — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:42:42 +0000

@ Krisarella. OMG it works! You’re really smart. Turns out blogger uses WYSIWYG and it worked just like you said: have the link URL on copy, highlight the word, click on the link icon (I didn’t know before this there was one) and bang! You’re hyperlinked.

I’m going to be a lincoln fool after this, lincoln this, lincoln that.

Now I’ll have to add this to my Blogger Dictionary. (WYSIWYG: Grandmother talking to the new born baby.)

By: blue star web design ireland

blue star web design ireland — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:16:51 +0000

i think a lot of people forget the reach of google, everyone should google their own name from time to time to see what google is throwing up..

By: Tudor Ciurescu

Tudor Ciurescu — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:34:14 +0000

one of the best way to determine what does google is thinking about you is to use the free tool, from stompernet.

the tool is called stompernet site seer. Try it. You will be amazed of what google thinks about you.

Nice article, by the way.

By: netblogger4

netblogger4 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:30:00 +0000

another very useful post. it stresses on the importance of online reputation.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:06:11 +0000

Sorry, that was a horribly long sentence. Hope it made sense!

By: kristarella

kristarella — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:04:26 +0000

Robert & Goinggreenmom –

I think what you’re referring to are hyperlinks, which use anchors in HTML.

Rather than write a whole bunch of code here have a look at HTML links on the W3 Schools site. You only used this code when you’re writing your posts in HTML, or in the “code editor” if you’re using the “visual editor” aka WYSIWYG editor, the you highlight the word that you want to make a link out of, click on the link button and paste the URL into the pop-up box.

By: Goinggreenmom

Goinggreenmom — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:52:01 +0000

I am just getting back into the internet thing, even though I used to do things back when it was generally writing the code.

The code that I would use would be to put What you want to put in the line of text here only take the astricks out of the code.

Sorry, I don’t know if it will work in the programs you are using or not. I know that my mom has found that some of the things she works with will do the coding as part of the program and therefore won’t work if she just adds the code (I know this was the case with ebay).

I would love to hear what the more savvy tech people on here are doing if there is an easier way to do that.

~Megan Waugh (Goinggreenmom)

By: Robert L Gisel

Robert L Gisel — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:56:22 +0000

This will be very useful to know once I actually develope some traffic. And since my webmaster is right now building me a better site this is good insight how to link it up. Right now it’s not starnge Google can’t find my blog as no one else can either.

I’m just wondering how you link from the About Me page. Oh I get it, thinking out loud here, you put them little blue spots on the text. Those blue words with the hidden link code. What’s that called? I’ll have to add that to my Bloggers Dictionary: WhoWouldWrite.blogspot.com.

See I still have to spell out the address as I don’t know the trick yet. Usually I’m pretty smart but on the computer I have an IQ of about 70. Maybe someone can tell me what that is called, those blue links I mean.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:59:43 +0000

Unfortunately when you Google my name you get a bunch of people that aren’t me, my name is fairly common so it is much harder for me to deal with this, but luckily when you put my blogs name in Google the first result is my blog.

By: Goinggreenmom

Goinggreenmom — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:49:02 +0000

After reading this I started checking out my screen names. My newest of Goinggreenmom is top 2 of 4! My name itself reveals one of my lenses on squidoo in the second position on the first page, a cybertown colony apartment from when I was 15 (10 yrs ago!!!) and a comment on another blog in the first page. 2 other listings in first 5 pages including where I made the Dean’s list for the fall semester last school year (Yippee!).

I also have a screen name I have used for over a year for personal stuff and is a wonderfully obscure combo of gemstones so does not turn up personal profiles on anything.

My project now is getting things ranked where I want them and more visibility. Thanks for all the awesome tips, I’m new to the blogosphere so didn’t know any of it!

~Megan Waugh (Goinggreenmom)

By: dandellion Kimban

dandellion Kimban — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:58:04 +0000

Great advices as always. I don’t know how it happened, but my blog stands on google’s no.1 for my name. Well, one thing less to think about :)

Btw, google doesn’t go red in spell checkers, cause “to google” is a recognized verb of English language. Check mirriam-Webster http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/google

By: guardian angel

guardian angel — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:44:07 +0000

After reading this post, I checked my pen name on google search but all I found was a bunch of sites about guardian angel the angels and not guardian angel the blogger.

However when I search my real name – Angel Cuala, it resulted to links to the directories I joined and where I use my real name outside my blog.

It’s funny that I do not reveal my name on my blog for privacy purposes but ironically, it is more popular than my blogs at google search.

I think I now have to reveal my real name on my blog and the next time I post a comment on other blogs which includes your humble blog.

Thanks for enlightening me.

By: Pentad

Pentad — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:03:42 +0000

I especially appreciated the SEO tips in this post. Thanks. I’ll get working on that.