Comments on: Personal Google Brand Measures

By: bimbogami

bimbogami — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:49:00 +0000

I’ve been happy for a low web profile to date really, so not surprised that a search on my name only yields me as the 11th hit (facebook). A few years ago, I was the #1 hit (my Picsel bio) for quite a few months, despite others, more famous than me, sharing my moniker.

However, entertainingly, my alter-ego manicmorff achieves 100% (50/50) hits, but you’d kinda expect that.

By: Phil Leggetter

Phil Leggetter — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:57:00 +0000

It's funny you should post this because I do this sort of search all the time. I've got quite a unique surname so it's something I'm obviously quite interested in. It's been amusingly suggested that my family may have actually been "leggett" but following a birth or during some sort of name registration when asked my ancestor said (in a west country accent) "leggett..errrr".

For "phil leggetter" and "philip leggetter" I do get the top 10 although Google thinks you may be having spelling issues and are actually searching for a Taxidermist! I'm guessing this is because he shares the same first name and is a popular chap?

For "leggetter" I get 4/10 and I'm confident that it wouldn't take that much effort to dominate with this obscure name and my SEO (leggetter | Phil Leggetter [does blogger auto-insert rel="nofollow"?) talents :-)

By: mcgenius

mcgenius — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:46:00 +0000

I don’t give a stuff about my personal “search space”. Au contraire, I’m very pleased that (excluding the Boston nerologist) it’s my alter-ego software architect living in Ipswich whose details are returned on most common searches of my name.

It’s only stoopid twitter that’s causing me to appear anywhere in the Top 60 google results. I shall have to do something about that…