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Don't forget to SEO your own name / product
- WillyF 16y agoIt actually took me a few months to get my site to rank #1 for its own brand name. It was extremely frustrating, but I worked at it and it has paid off. Now my brand name and other related terms are by far my top search terms, and this is on a site that gets 75% of its traffic organically from search engines.
- AlexBlom 16y agoVery frustrating. When picking product names now the ability to SEO them is now something I consider!
- jacquesm 16y agoFor your own name that can be pretty hard if it is a common enough name. Alex Blom probably will do just fine (it does, I checked), but John Smith would have a much harder time of it, even John Smith the greengrocer.
- AlexBlom 16y agoI totally agree, that comes down to competitiveness. A huge issue will be, as another commenter has said, when people forget to rank their own product name.
- abstractbill 16y agoWhen my wife and I decided to get married we wanted to both change our names to something new. For each idea we came up with, I did some web searches just to see if the name had any existing meaning or associations. The name we settled on (Moorier - a portmanteau of two family names) is almost unique on the web.
- patio11 16y agoThere is a Patrick McKenzie who does male modeling. Some of his clients are less than Google savvy. This has resulted in some very amusing customer support emails. There is also a voice actor, who is apparently soft and sensual. That actually resulted in a phone call. I don't remember the particulars but I rather doubt I was soft or sensual at 2 AM.
- jacquesm 16y ago> This has resulted in some very amusing customer support emails. Care to share? Here is my most amusing customer interaction, long ago, when webcams were pretty new: --- Me: Hello, camarades support, how can I help you? she: Well, my cam doesn't work. Me: Ok, what is your user id she: randygirl99 Me: Let me have a look Me: are you running an anti-virus package with a built in firewall ? She: Yes Me: ok, that's likely the problem, when you start the software you'll be prompted to enable outgoing traffic on port 2047, please answer 'yes' She: ok, one moment ... some time passes, I hit F5 a couple of times ... Me: ok, it works She: oh, does it now ? Well, what am I wearing then ? Me: well, to be honest, not a whole lot... She: (screaming) You Pervert! ... connection breaks --- The voice actor thing might have it's uses though, but their timing will have to improve a bit :)
- patio11 16y agoLet me put it this way: I don't normally get many emails which start "Patrick, do you work nude?"