Как reclaim ваше имя online

Имеете вы Googled ваше имя последн? Вс счастливо с результатами? Эти просмотрение/обзор/консультация помогут вам изменить как вы представлены online.

Будут множество причин, котор вы можете хотеть изменить come up когда люди ищут для вашего имени. Most likely, вы должны около зарегистрировать workforce и вам не нужен recruiters and/or представитель часа. смотреть ваши запойные ужимкы на MySpace. Following концы и свободно-обслуживания могут помочь изменить те результаты поиска Google к что-то, котор вы немного самолюбивыми.

1. Ziki
2. LinkedIn
3. Naymz
4. Управление повреждения

1. Ziki

Ziki обслуживание делает милую смелейшую заявку - «гарантированы, что появляют члены Ziki в первое положение дали результаты поиска Google, Yahoo & MSN когда их имя поискано, котор что Ziki покупает спонсированные соединения. Члена общины Ziki могут поэтому создать, управить и оптимизировать их online присутсвие пока контролирующ их изображение.»

Я сперва был причален работником Ziki 9-ого июля 2007 для того чтобы рассмотреть их обслуживание и обеспечить некоторую обратную связь. Я подписал вверх по тому такому же дню и потратил немного минут создаваясь мой профиль ziki. Пока пытающся для того чтобы upload изображение (изображение профиля) я держал получить ошибку. Я вычислял была черепашка в системе поэтому я дал вверх for a while. Остальнои установки были очень straightforward и не принимали больше чем 10 или 15 cMin. На следующий день я попытался upload изображение профиля снова и получился такую же ошибку. Так я послал сообщение к их адресу обратной связи и меньш чем 4 часа более поздно я получил это:

Я буду Sandrine от Ziki, реальной персоны, не робота

По мере того как вы могли заметить малое bug на upload изображения к вашему профилю Ziki. Мы пытаемся крепко исправить эта черепашка как можно скорее.

Более поздно тот день они подтвердили проблему дальше их blog и 11th проблема была фикчированн.

После того как я успешно uploaded изображение профиля, я решил к Google себя и см. если результаты изменили. Через 2 дня после подписывать вверх для Ziki, и моего профиль Ziki поскакали до #3 в результатах поиска. In addition, я имел «спонсированное перечисление» которое указало к моему профилю.


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Настолько not only имел мое Ziki Simplehelp.net настигнутое профилем (использовало быть 3-им когда вы Googled мое имя), но оно сделало так в 2 днях.

Уточнение: as of today (July 14th) my Ziki profile seems to have disappeared from Google’s search results entirely. The sponsored listing remains, the the actual search results no longer include Ziki. I’m not sure if this is a bug w/ Ziki or if Google has decided that Ziki profiles shouldn’t receive the attention that they do. I have an email into the folks @ Ziki to see if they can shed some light on the situation.

2. LinkedIn

Due to its high pagerank, creating a LinkedIn profile is a great way to get your name higher in search results. After you create an account and fill out all of the profile information (which can take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour, depending on how detailed you want your profile to be), you’ll want to make sure your profile (or part of it) is public. To do so, click the Edit My Public Profile tab.



First, make sure to set your profile as public. To do so, select Full View. Then select each section of your profile that you wish to make public.


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When you’re done, click the Save Changes button.

Now, change your Public Profile URL. By default, LinkedIn will give you a profile URL something along the lines of: www.linkedin.com/pub/1/323/33X - which isn’t exactly “friendly”. Click the Edit link in the Public Profile URL section at the top of your Edit My Public Profile screen.


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Enter your full name in the space provided. This will result with a public profile url of www.linkedin.com/in/yourname. Click Set Address to save the change.


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Within a few days of creating your LinkedIn profile, it should appear on the first page of search results with most search engines (depending on a few factors, not the least of which is how ‘common’ your name is). For more info on using LinkedIn, check out Web Worker Daily’s 20 Ways to use LinkedIn Productively guide.

3. Naymz

Naymz is a Ziki competitor. In fact, I think they’ve been around for longer than Ziki, and they (currently) have more features. With that said, to access the advanced features of Naymz, you’ll need to pay them. One of the interesting advanced features is the ability to have an email sent to you each time someone views your profile, and that email will include the visitors location, how they found you, their name (if available) and IP address.


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Similar to Ziki, Naymz will purchase sponsored links on Google. If you upgrade to the Premium service ($4.95/mo) they will also purchase sponsored links on Yahoo and MSN (among other features).


my public Naymz profile

4. Damage Control

This is the hardest part to reclaiming your name. The first thing you can do is delete your MySpace account (if you’ve included anything in it that someone might find by searching for your name). At the very least, delete the posts or comments that you’ve left on MySpace that include your actual name. Then start contacting your “friends” asking them to do the same.

Those embarrassing pictures you posted on Flickr - time to delete them. If someone else posted a photo of you, ask them (very, very politely) to take it down. If they won’t oblige, go directly to the source. Email Flickr (or whatever company is hosting the photo) and explain to them that you wish to have a picture of yourself removed. Give them the exact URL to the picture, and politely explain why you’d like it taken down. There is absolutely no guarantee that they’ll accommodate you, but it’s worth the effort.

If you’re trying to tidy up your ‘personal’ search results for professional reasons, try searching Google, Yahoo and MSN for your email address. You might be surprised at what you find. Never, ever, use an email address when applying for a job (or on your resume) that you’ve used to sign up for online forums, social news sites, etc. Recruiters will search for your email address right after they search for your name. You really don’t want them to know that you spend a lot of time on that <insert offensive site here> forum.

And last but not least, you can try contacting Google directly and ask them to remove a page or image from their search results. This should only be attempted after you’ve tried to contact the web site owner directly with your request. You may want to brush up on the Google Webmaster Guidelines prior to submitting a request, as you may need to prove to Google that the web site in question isn’t adhering to one or more of their guidelines. Again, this should be used as a last resort.

Do you have any tips or suggestions on how to “improve your name” online? If so, please feel free to share them in the comments section below. As always, if you come up with a good one I’ll update this article and credit you (and your site if you have one) as the source. Cheers!

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