Have a say in what Google says about you

Someone out there's trying to find information about you right now, whether it's a potential employer, date or a long lost friend. What happens when they Google you?

Source: Lifehacker / Gina Trapani

A recent poll here on Lifehacker shows that for about half of you, information about someone else with the same name or a web site you don't control gets returned in search results for your name. Today we'll go over the ins and outs of setting up a nameplate web site that makes you Googleable with a web page whose content YOU control.

You may already have a personal blog with photos of your kids on it or a page dedicated to your monstrous Lego collection that comes up for your name. But is this the first point of contact you want a Google coldcaller to have? Consider your nameplate site your internet business card, where you publish contact and professional info in a context insensitive way that'll help Googlers get a birds eye view of who you are and what you do - beyond the Lego collection.

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