I discovered a small thing today as I was checking this page’s ranking when searching for my own name. Go figure that middle names would screw up your placement…
I really like my middle name “Flynn” and started including it on my business cards and such. When I redesigned this site last week, I added my middle name to all the spots where I was using my first and last name. But then when I checked my page rank for searches for “Blaine Garrett”, I could not longer even find this site.
However, when I searched for “Blaine Flynn Garrett”, “Blaine Flynn”, or “Flynn Garrett” this page came up in the top two results. This leads me to believe that the adjacency of words plays a role in results. Very odd.
As a result, I removed “Flynn” from all over the site. I figure people that will have my full name got it from a business card, etc and thus have the site address too. Otherwise, they got my name off of a gallery tag, forum post, word of mouth etc, and I want them to be able to easily find me. Now I just need GoogleBot to update…
