[oldfriend]

At least once a week I will Google my name.

This is a good way to find out if your web sites and opportunities are being looked at.

Another good way is to blog and link back to your web site in the blog or comment.

How do you measure your success in Net-Working?

Oldfriend

[nela13]

i never googled my name, nor even think about it. the only think i google about me is my blog, but maybe you are right about being a way to measure my sucess in internet

[oldbuddy]

I Google my name and user name often, because I want to know what other people are going to see if they do it.

[thisnthat]

I used to do it when I was freelancing full time. I wanted to see where my articles were ranking and what people were saying (if anything). Now, not so much.

[kaka135]

Thank you for sharing this tip with me. As we are setting up our website for business soon, this will be helpful to us.

I did google my username before, not for business purpose, just to check it out only.

[DreekLass]

I don't do it all the time. I used to google my artists name when I was selling music on the internet. But I have googled my work online username. Nothing too interesting comes up.

[philo]

I used to do that to check how others finding out my site,even helps me to check the mistakes and do the improvement.I think all who owns a website will try it.

[rabaouimounir2]

These are excellent first information once I know thank you

[suny]

Yes I do that every weeek to check how many sites I am working on. I am surprised to note that It takes me to some of the sites I have stopped working years before. I am referring to my actual username here.

[Vinaya]

I google my name. Interestingly, the first page entry are all about me.

[thisnthat]

I google my name. Interestingly, the first page entry are all about me.

Do you mean all the sites that try to sell your info to people? Do you mean stuff like your FB page and online work and stuff?

I find my past work, and then a bunch of background search type sites trying to sell my info and some genealogy sites trying to sell me stuff.

[Angie10]

I used to, but I don't remember the last time I did it. It really scared me that some of the information that came up was very, very personal, and that doesn't sit well with me at all.

@thinsthat that sounds truly awful! It appears we're no longer safe, especially with the amount of online work we do, giving out all the information we give out!

[RapidBlue]

Yes, I have a lots of results, specially for the internet name I was using for years. I joined in with lots of sites so it is normal, I still don't get much results for this one as I only use it for online writing pages.

[oldbuddy]

If you want accurate results, open a incognito window in your browser and Google you name in Quotes. Just be aware, you may find some real garbage being spread bout you. I just did it and had over 4,000 listed with the top one a ScamBusters Report that has been there for years.

[tomford]

i google my site to see where it shows up in the list of sites, i also use bing and yahoo. its funny about the trail we leave online, i googled a friend and saw different accounts they had on classmate sites and dating websites.

[oldbuddy]

i googled a friend and saw different accounts they had on classmate sites and dating websites.

Are you suggesting that might be a good way to make a date?

[RapidBlue]

Your name oldbuddy shows up in ScamBusters Report? How?

oldbuddy

If you want accurate results, open a incognito window in your browser and Google you name in Quotes. Just be aware, you may find some real garbage being spread bout you. I just did it and had over 4,000 listed with the top one a ScamBusters Report that has been there for years.

[nakitakona]

I usually google my name, my blog to find them out on how they appear on google search. I am a bit satisfied for they appear on the first page of the search . When I google my name, all of my blogs are listed in the search results.

[oldbuddy]

Your name oldbuddy shows up in ScamBusters Report? How?

oldbuddy

If you want accurate results, open a incognito window in your browser and Google you name in Quotes. Just be aware, you may find some real garbage being spread bout you. I just did it and had over 4,000 listed with the top one a ScamBusters Report that has been there for years.

Just some jerk that thought it would be funny to write a degrading report, but fortunately he did such a poor job no one with half a brain would consider it.

[morgoodie]

That is a good idea and I am sorry to say it never occurred to me. I should do that and see what comes up. It would be smart to find out where you are at on Google to see what other things you may have to do in order to drive more traffic to your site.