Web Identity Management
I bet that you’ve googled yourself more than once, but, guess what, you’re not alone : many of your friends, colleagues, siblings or even persons you’ve never met did the same : they typed your name into Google. The good news is that you’re becoming visible and reachable by virtually anyone : a recruiter, a customer, a friend, an ex-classmate.
The bad news is that everything that is on the web about you will end up in search engines, even things that you would love to forget : messages that you left of “Britney Spears’ fans forum”, pictures of your “young” time as a hippie, or videos of your last party -yes, the one where you drank too much!-. It can even be worse if you have an homonym who did bad things…
There is no way you could remove or control any of this bad pages. The only strategy is to “bury” this information so that nobody ever finds it. Search engines gather thousand of web pages on your name, most of them will never be seen, hence, if you want them to “disappear”, you just have to be sure that there are hundreds of results before them.
You must be able to control what people find with your name. For this, there are not that many solutions : make noise on the web with your name, a blog, a web page, a linkedIn profile, a Ziki… that’s what I did for Julien Genestoux. Also, do not hesitate to leave interesting comments on blogs, media sites with your name, they’ll soon become visible on it! You should even start here : leave a comment and tell us about your “web visibility”!
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