One of the newish services that I hadn't much experience with was NaymZ. I had some colleagues that sent me invites to connect with the service, and I had taken the time to visit the website but not yet decided to spend the time necessary to complete yet another personal profile.
I understood what NaymZ was trying to do, and I knew that I could always create a profile if it ever achieved critical mass. When the whole reputation management on queries for my name raised it's ugly head, I went about doing the sorts of things that would populate my listings as much as possible, with profiles that I maintained.
The most successful thus far has been Twitter, followed by Facebook, LinkedIn and so on. I got advice from a friend (thank you Rhea!) that NaymZ also seems to rank very highly in Google (the one engine where this issue is nastiest). So, I set about marking up my NaymZ profile.
It took a little while to connect it with various other profiles, and the UI had browser issues on some occasions, (the very reason I resist spending time with newish sites). You know what? It worked like magic. The NaymZ profile debuted at number 8 in Google. That's a pretty good sign that the profile will stick around in the top 10 for as long as I keep it fresh.
So, what do I think you should do? I think you should follow my friend's valuable advice and create a NaymZ profile page to protect and or repair anything from appearing top 10 for your name, (at least for as long as Google is a profile cowboy). The reason these profiles rank so well quickly, and without too much bother, is that you don't have to worry about link building.
Search Return is fairly solid top 10 on the name by itself, but there really aren't that many links relating to my name yet which point to Search Return. I have already created a SQuiD account, and achieved at least one new link through my own Link Building application. The number 8 or 9 Google ranking for Search Return at this time is practically only due to the HTML.
Link Building for Search Return is my long term plan for getting close to number one. In the mean time, I needed to act quickly. Thus far, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo and now NaymZ have all had varying levels of success with top 10 Google rankings. They all make up the quick 'damage control' plans. AirDisa (this blog) is my interim plan, succeeding at debuting and moving up to page two within two weeks.
Search Return figures into my end game.
Stay tuned.
I understood what NaymZ was trying to do, and I knew that I could always create a profile if it ever achieved critical mass. When the whole reputation management on queries for my name raised it's ugly head, I went about doing the sorts of things that would populate my listings as much as possible, with profiles that I maintained.
The most successful thus far has been Twitter, followed by Facebook, LinkedIn and so on. I got advice from a friend (thank you Rhea!) that NaymZ also seems to rank very highly in Google (the one engine where this issue is nastiest). So, I set about marking up my NaymZ profile.
It took a little while to connect it with various other profiles, and the UI had browser issues on some occasions, (the very reason I resist spending time with newish sites). You know what? It worked like magic. The NaymZ profile debuted at number 8 in Google. That's a pretty good sign that the profile will stick around in the top 10 for as long as I keep it fresh.
So, what do I think you should do? I think you should follow my friend's valuable advice and create a NaymZ profile page to protect and or repair anything from appearing top 10 for your name, (at least for as long as Google is a profile cowboy). The reason these profiles rank so well quickly, and without too much bother, is that you don't have to worry about link building.
Search Return is fairly solid top 10 on the name by itself, but there really aren't that many links relating to my name yet which point to Search Return. I have already created a SQuiD account, and achieved at least one new link through my own Link Building application. The number 8 or 9 Google ranking for Search Return at this time is practically only due to the HTML.
Link Building for Search Return is my long term plan for getting close to number one. In the mean time, I needed to act quickly. Thus far, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo and now NaymZ have all had varying levels of success with top 10 Google rankings. They all make up the quick 'damage control' plans. AirDisa (this blog) is my interim plan, succeeding at debuting and moving up to page two within two weeks.
Search Return figures into my end game.
Stay tuned.
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