Comments on: Identity 2.0 - A Primer

By: James

James — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:34:17 +0000

@n0s0ap: That’s why it’s so important to get these domains. My rule with domain names is “If you think you might, possibly, at some hypothetical point in the future want the domain, register it.” This goes double for your own name.

@Ben Sinclair: Big Sight is a neat idea, but I’d like to see custom domains and a bit more customization (don’t go crazy, maybe just let me re-order the “resume” page, or choose from some pre-screened skin options).

By: Ben Sinclair

Ben Sinclair — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:56:32 +0000

I’m the developer of bigsight.org, which lets people create nice looking homepages that are heavily SEO optimized. 87% of our users are at the top of Google and Yahoo for their names.

We make it pretty easy for people to get their names out there!

By: n0s0ap

n0s0ap — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:15:02 +0000

Thanks for the mention! The name you use online is becoming crazy important, especially since more and more people are catching on to it making it more likely that we’ll have lots of people competing for the same or similar names.

I of course am an advocate of original names. I’m proud to report that I own every single search result for “n0s0ap”.

By: James

James — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:13:32 +0000

Good one, Ken! Google Alerts are a great tool in general, but particularly for tracking your reputation.

Chris, I keep trying to listen to that podcast and I keep getting pulled away. It’s very frustrating.

By: Ken Burbary

Ken Burbary — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:10:44 +0000

One other tool you left out is Google Alerts. I find it is extremely handy to monitor what is being discussed and posted about your brand using GA.

http://www.google.com/alerts

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:18:19 +0000

Good post. This reminds me of a SEO 101 Podcast about online reputation management:

http://podcast.neo1seo.com/2008/04/24/negative-reputation-management/