Managing Your Online Identity

In today's world almost everyone is online, people are posting blogs, comments, pictures, and videos. With the millions of people posting new content everyday how can you make sure that your content is being viewed and thought about? This can be a very hard thing to do for some people, but this blog is going to show you just how easy it is.

So lets start at the first place people go when looking for things, search engines. Now the search engine used by the majority of internet users is of course Google. They have been expanding over the last few years by starting their own email service, acquiring YouTube, as well as this website, Blogger, and seeing as they are so prevelant that is the search engine we will focus on.

Now getting your name to the top of the search results sounds like a long drawn out task but it is actually much simpler than most people think. There are many different websites that do all the hard work for you, two of these websites are Linkedin and Naymz. These websites give you a profile that you can post all your other websites on and then the website links your profile al over the interent. After a while these results get picked up by google and get placed at the top. Its as easy as that!

I personally have tried both and after about a week my name had broken into the top ten search results multiple times. First is my Linkedin profile and next is my Naymz profile. I was surprised and how fast they got me into the results.

Another way to break into the top ten is to start making accounts on as many sites as possible and contribute to them regularly. For example, my Pandora profile contributes many links to the search results, and at this momment a search for my name will result in about 56,000 results. I don't know how many of those are actually me but i know for sure that the first 8 links on google go to sites that are controlled by me.

Managing your online identity will be a very important skill to learn for the future as more and more businesses start to google search their potential employees.

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