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Re:Breakdown of a person's Google results [Infographic] by danso on Friday August 03, 2012 @10:30AM (#4334168)
It's hard to take this seriously when it omits one of the most obvious ways to get to the top of the ranks: buy a domain with your name in it. Or a variation thereof. In fact, even the social site profiles, you should go for urls that have your name in the slug. If that's not a service offered by the company who built this infographic, then I have to suspect whatever methodology they used to come up with these rankings.

* Edit: Also worth noting. Their "1 billion names searched in Google every day" statistic is suspect. If you follow the actual bit.ly link (bit.ly/MWEFQT), it goes to a paper that references that statistics to some 2004 presentation. There's no indication that "1 billion" isn't 95% searches for "justin bieber/kim kardashian/lindsay lohan". A minor point in the bigger picture, maybe, but hey, it was their choice to headline the infographic with it.

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Re:Breakdown of a person's Google results [Infographic] by patrickambron on Friday August 03, 2012 @10:36AM (#4334198)
That's a good point Danso. The BrandYourself software actually guides you through all of that. If you submit a LinkedIn for example, but haven't gotten your vanity URL, we guide you through the process until you have. If you submit a personal website and haven't applied a custom domain (yourname.com) we guide you through that too. Basically the service helps you make any profile or link as search engine friendly for your name as possible

This infographic is more of an interesting look into where different profiles generally rank on their own, left to their own devices. Since we track the Google results of over 130K people, millions of results and hundreds of thousands of profiles, we thought it would be cool to see where profiles generally rank.

Does that help at all?

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Re:Breakdown of a person's Google results [Infographic] by icebraining on Friday August 03, 2012 @10:53AM (#4334268)
I'm curious: why exactly do your pages need jQuery and mootools for what's essentially a pretty but static HTML page? And more importantly, why aren't they compressed?

It's not that your pages are exactly slow, but you could probably push them way down with a few simple steps.

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