Are you happy with your name in the SERPs?

If the question is a bit confusing, I’ll restate it — if you search your name in Google, are you happy with the search results?

Let’s call it ego-surfing.

So, let me ask the question again, you okay with your name in the SERPs?

I asked this because if someone is doing a background check on you, they’ll most probably hit Google first. Will the first page of the SERPs tell a good story about you? Or will it reveal a dark past you once had?

So, what are you doing to make a good Google impression?

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

20 Comments

Rich says:

18 years ago

Am I happy with the search results when searching my name? Yes…because I can’t find anything relevant to me. I’m more concerned with privacy than being famous. I have an extremely common name. Both my first and last names are among the most common so there are millions of results on a search of my name but i’ve never found anything about me personally…lots of interesting things about people who have the same name though.
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kukote says:

18 years ago

searching my full name “Marhgil Macuha” reveals search results all relevant to me. Ako lang yata ang may pangalang ganyan. Am I happy? Most search results show that I’m a blogger =) Is it beneficial to me? I don’t know.
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pixie says:

18 years ago

no am not :(
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Mike Abundo says:

18 years ago

Absolutely. Social media omnipresence is key. ;)
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kutitots says:

18 years ago

Oh yes, I’m with the top 10 of the 32.3 million Gails of the world :P Search “Gail” or “Gail Dela Cruz,” and the ones relevant to me point to my blog, portfolio, or sites I’ve done.

I guess the only “dark past” I would have been ashamed of would be the designs I’ve made in the 90’s :D
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Glo says:

18 years ago

ha ha!! I’ve recently been ego-surfing. hmmm, i still like whst i see. ;-)
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Miguel says:

18 years ago

At least the top result is OK, but the others point to mailing list archives and blog posts I made. Not exactly relevant.
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jayvee fernandez says:

18 years ago

mine basically highlights my blogs and my stint at problogging.
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SELaplana says:

18 years ago

well, if you’ll search “sustines laplana” the SERP, my profile in Ezine Articles site is in number 1.

It’s fine….
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hoop says:

18 years ago

Whoohooo!… with my ego tripping I found out that PTB got some link love from oreilly’s PR9 site :D

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phphks/reviews.html
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