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For years, I've been good heartedly losing the blog SEO ranking fight to a great developer and writer who has the same name as me. A football player eclipses us

by otras 2y ago

For years, I've been good heartedly losing the blog SEO ranking fight to a great developer and writer who has the same name as me. A football player eclipses us both if you just google our shared name, but if you add any sort of "developer" or "programming", he's clearly got me beat for the top marks. It makes sense — he writes about tech much more consistently than I do, and his articles are likely much more helpful than my sporadic and eclectic posts. Naturally, being vain, when I saw this post, I immediately looked up my own blog and was chuffed to see it at #292. But, guess who I see just above at #289.

jbhoot 2y ago
Heh. For me, a British ambassador to Spain has all three of you beat (probably due to my frequent visits to gov.uk design system and nhs.uk).
01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
That's why I changed my name to a ULID
- cung 2y ago
  :D
- ZeroTalent 2y ago
  Legally? :D
- AStonesThrow 2y ago
  In the future, our names will simply be a cryptographic hash of our genome and we’ll all enjoy unambiguous identity and individuality as we express ourselves solely with Unicode Emoji.
  - ToDougie 2y ago
    You misspelled Wingdings. A common typo. The keys are like right next to each other.
  - volemo 2y ago
    Being twins’d be considered tax evasion. :P
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      [deleted]
mtlynch 2y ago
You're still my favorite of the three of you.
- stavros 2y ago
  And you're my favorite of the one of you.
registeredcorn 2y ago
Funnily enough, I have a very common name and take quite a bit of relief in knowing that were someone to even attempt to look me up, they would see a number of authors, artists, politicians, etc. long before anything of me ever appeared. I've gone searching once or twice out of curiosity, and didn't find anything relevant on at least the first two or three pages of Google, Bing, etc. I suppose the difference is that when I make any sort of professional blog, etc. I do so under online handles in place of my legal name because I see the content as being the important bit, not the person it's coming from; the credibility flows from the information provided, not the name it's tied to. ...Well, provided it's not xXx_DongMaster6969_xXx or whatever. :)

by otras 2y ago

jbhoot 2y ago

Heh. For me, a British ambassador to Spain has all three of you beat (probably due to my frequent visits to gov.uk design system and nhs.uk).

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago

That's why I changed my name to a ULID

cung 2y ago
:D
ZeroTalent 2y ago
Legally? :D
AStonesThrow 2y ago
In the future, our names will simply be a cryptographic hash of our genome and we’ll all enjoy unambiguous identity and individuality as we express ourselves solely with Unicode Emoji.
- ToDougie 2y ago
  You misspelled Wingdings. A common typo. The keys are like right next to each other.
- volemo 2y ago
  Being twins’d be considered tax evasion. :P
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    [deleted]

mtlynch 2y ago

You're still my favorite of the three of you.

stavros 2y ago
And you're my favorite of the one of you.

registeredcorn 2y ago

Funnily enough, I have a very common name and take quite a bit of relief in knowing that were someone to even attempt to look me up, they would see a number of authors, artists, politicians, etc. long before anything of me ever appeared. I've gone searching once or twice out of curiosity, and didn't find anything relevant on at least the first two or three pages of Google, Bing, etc. I suppose the difference is that when I make any sort of professional blog, etc. I do so under online handles in place of my legal name because I see the content as being the important bit, not the person it's coming from; the credibility flows from the information provided, not the name it's tied to. ...Well, provided it's not xXx_DongMaster6969_xXx or whatever. :)