Brian McCullough - Organizational Internet and Marketing Consultant

Ok guys its been a few months since I first wrote about personal SEO and now it is time to reveal my result. The results you are about to see have been up for several weeks, however, I am just now getting around to recording them today. What I did to impove personal SEO and SEM for Brian McCullough “bpmccullough”

1. Setup & Posted a few blogs ( This is one of them ; ) )
2. Created accounts on several networking web
   1. http://my.mashable.com/bpmccullough (One of my Favs.)
   2. MY BAD!!! My accounts will not be as affective because I did NOT fill in all the info in my accounts. I plan on filling in all the info and using the services, however, some just make it too hard to conveniently use them. A good example is twitter.com I can update my twitter account (twitter.com/mccullough) through their website, the normal way, on my phone via SMS, through Google Talk and one of the most unique ways is, via my URL field in Firefox, those are just a few ways that I twitter. A poor example of user convenience is Vox, I hate posting this about Vox because I really like their website and business model but, why would I use their service if I already have a blog? Few other blogging website have answered that question by allowing you to syndicate your primary blog on their blog section allowing you to utilize their services. Vox does do this, however, they only let you syndicate Live Journal and TypePad. WHY? I mean just allow me to use my RSS feed, come on guys. Again this is why I like Mashable because they let you include a small part of every network I us, all in one place and although I wish for more interaction at least I am reminded that I have an account with like 20 networks and need to fill the accounts with information about me.
   4. A Few of My Accounts (Time to work on filling em-up)

   5. COMMUNITY

      Myspace

      Bebo

      Hi5

      Imeem

      MEDIA SHARING

      YouTube

      Flickr

      Veoh

      BLOGS

      Vox

      MUSIC

      Uber

      EVENTS & REVIEWS

      yelp

      NEWS

      Newsvine

      DIGG

      MISCELLANEOUS

      Twitter

   6. All of them have custom URLs i.e. myspace.com/bpmccullough
3. Personal Website bpmccullough.com
   1. I have been working on interloopmedia.com and have not had the chance to complete bpmccullough.com, none the less I have a landing page up with tags and all.
      1. About BrianMcCullough
      2. Resume
      3. Company’s
      4. Video Page ?
      5. Contact
      6. Other (fun pages ect.)
   2. Many people have used Uber for a personal website or Wordpress Software.

My Results Besides the multiple keywords that my name and/or blog come up on my “name” itself indexes on the 3rd page of Google, whereas before you would have never found my name on Google. Results For Brian McCullough

1. “Brian McCullough” comes up on the 3rd page of Google (in Quotes)
2. No Quotes SAME! 3rd page of Google (This surprised me)
3. McCullough - No where to be found on Google (Went to page 33!!)
4. bpmccullough - I own the 1st page (There is one bad post, from my SEO experimental college days)

Next

1. Focusing on Yahoo Search
2. Many more personal Blogs
3. Join Nthebook.com
   
   1. They will be paying for my ad words
      1. Google
      2. Yahoo
   2. The site is organized but a work in progress when it comes to naturally coming up on the search engines.
   3. The site makes up for it by putting part of your monthly fees towards ad words (10 bucks a month)
   4. Nonetheless much more to the point then it’s competitor LinkedIn
4. Starting a few new blogs of interest
   1. tulsafoodblog.com/blog
      
   2. Blogs For Friends
      1. christiansesma.com/blog
      2. tinytinyblog.com/blog

Best

I often get people asking me how they can improve their reputation on Google and Yahoo. It is also often that people come back a month or two later to ask me the same question and the answer is always the same. Consistency is the number one key to personal SEO. If you do not feel like being consistent I would recommend Nthebook.com for only 10 bucks a month they buy Google and Yahoo ads for your name for you.

Looking to get better results for your name?

• Start a Blog
  • MySpace Blogs
  • Blogger
  • VOX
  • Word Press
  • Or all 4 : )
• Get on the right networks
  • LinkedIn
  • Nthebook.com
    • For just 10 bucks a month this site will buy ad words for you

• Get Involved Online
  • Answer some questions on Yahoo
    • Sound Intelligent
    • Use you signature
      • Name : Brian McCullough
      • Blog URL : bpmccullough.com/blog
  • Try to get you name on Wikipedia
    • Chances are you will be deleted
      • NO Glamour
      • NO BS
      • Check out other Individual entries
      • Think historically, accomplishments, awards, you must have references and be relevant
  • Write an Article (Very Effective)
    • There are 1000s of eZine site out there
      • Write about what you want people to see when searching for you
      • i.e. Business Tips, Investment, Education, Politics
  • Make a small personal website
    • Mine would be bpmccullough.com
    • Buy your domain for 10 bucks at Godaddy.com
      • Get domain privacy so people can’t see your home address
      • Use the Godaddy website tonight application
      • Learn basic HTML

Total Cost $20 + $4.50/month for Website Tonight

Total Time Lots

I’ve never really paid much attention to LinkedIn; I do know that if you wanted to get your name at the top of Google and Yahoo, LinkedIn will definitely do the job, unless your name is John Smith. Although LinkedIn rival Facebook is super popular it does not seem to index like most other sites do, including LinkedIn. According to Nielsen numbers LinkedIn is growing at a faster rate than Facebook, this maybe due to better results in search engines or because the MySpace generation is job hunting. I know Facebook is moving towards better visibility on search engines, however, I have not seen the results yet. This worries me because they have always been known as a gated community, unlike their spam ridden rival MySpace. A few websites that have really achieved great search engine recognition include: Digg.com, Wikipedia.com, LinkedIn.com, Yahoo Answers, and Amazon.com. These are just a few sites that you want to be on that is if you want your name out there. Visit me later for a personal SEO game plan.