Do you ever google yourself? (Sounds naughty, doesn’t it?)

I have a question.

Have you ever googled yourself, to see what all is out there on you?

John Chow(393,000 results) and Darren Rowse(180,000) are huge names, they’ve branded themselves and you can find thousands of pages on them. (Be sure when googling a name to enclose it in “quotations” so it searches for the exact name).

Have you thought of branding yourself? I personally try to use my name as often as possible. I use it as my username on most social networks, etc… It’s even my twitter id.

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I’d like to see how people rank for their names in the search engines – are you popular or famous? Go ahead and tell me what your google results are. I think this would be a fun experiment. My Google results are: 6,090. It’s no Darren or John, but its a nice start!

By the way – I think it’s funny that JohnChow has so many listings, but JohnCOW actually is ranked #1 for the term ‘John Chow’. Funny, huh?

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  • Patrick Curl
    wow, kaysha - what term are you using for your brand?
  • Patrick Curl
    Dr. Pete, I can definitely see your point, I'm sure though that before they became famous there were probably some john chow's, or darren rowse's, but I can see perhaps that's reason Shoemoney is branded as shoemoney, and not his real name. I'm lucky that there aren't very many Patrick Curl's, and now I pretty much ruined it for anyone else with my name - lol.
  • Patrick Curl
    Hey trisha thanks for the tips, I'll have to check out trackur.
  • Patrick Curl
    Wow, congrats, that's pretty impressive. Good luck further branding yourself, and your business.
  • I got 359000 damn... :shock:
  • Just googled myself....20,000 but that includes EVERYONE with my first and last name. I'm #1, 2, 8, 9 and 10!

    My business (ethnicomm) shows 2,600 results :)
  • TC
    John Chow had his main site penalized by google, this is why John Cow actually comes up as the # 1 result. Always good to have multiple avenues of traffic! :)
  • Yeap, I'm googling my self. Now I'm at 1330 (using "muswardi", my last name that I'm usually used) :D
  • I came in at 144 :sad:
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    Between us, and a couple other Hannah Valentines, there are 5,110 results. My other online identity, opheliac9, has 4,250 results.

    If nothing else, it's fun to look back at some of the stuff one has posted.
  • I read a post LONG ago about setting up vanity searches to come into your feed reader. Technorati has the same capability, along with TweetScan and Teraminds.

    The greatest tool I've found to look yourself up is Trackur - I'm sure by now I sound like a paid monkey with how much I pimp this service but I just love it SO much! It's great and finds stuff you'd never find otherwise that's tagged with your brand name.
  • One of the reasons I branded as "Dr. Pete" is that my given name (Peter Meyers) is way too common: 251,000 results. On the bright side, I rank #3, #5, and #8 (counting my LinkedIn profile), which isn't too shabby.
  • I do. About once a week :)
    2230
    (+ results for my nick Despil, but that can!t be measured being a novel character, and all.)
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