Ever heard of Danny Sullivan? He’s one of the Internet’s most respected Search Authorities, reporting on all things search related.
Why would you care? Well, there’s a good chance that Danny Sullivan has arrived here via a Google Vanity Search (hi danny). A Vanity Search is just a name for the practice of entering your name into Google or any of the other Search Engines to see who’s saying what about you. In my previous post, “Blog Alert Opimization – Google AdSense Rocks” I spoke about writing content that could possibly be sent to Google Alert subscribers in the hope of getting more readers to your blog.
Combining the practice of Vanity Searches with Google’s News Alerts, you could set up an alert to notify you every day of anything new on the internet that has mentioned your name. There are people out there who want to know what other’s are saying about them, or where they’re being referenced. So, you could write something in the hope of getting noticed.
Now, writing content that mentions people who are likely to actually do daily or weekly vanity searches isn’t really much help unless you manage to write content that would actually be appealing, and possibly get the visitor to recommend your post/blog/site on their high-traffic site.
But don’t go flooding the internet with my name now, you hear… 😉
Anyway, if you have any comments or thoughts on this practice, or just wanna say hi, please leave a comment below.