I admit it, I search for my name a lot. Firstname Lastname, click, send, wait, smile! It’s exciting to see what the search engines find most relevant about me. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should. Everybody likes to feel important or at the very least less obscure and more accessible online to friends, loved ones, fans, viewers, colleagues you name it.

What’s interesting is the distinctly different types of websites and information that the top 3 (Google, MSN, and Yahoo) return in response to a firstname lastname search. Now a lot of these differences are not specific to a name search and would fit in the categories of convtionial SEO, but the reasons why I think it’s important to talk about this specific search separately from regular SEO are:

1. This search is one of the most important to an individual emotionally. Your first and last name appears on everything you create. It can represent your reputation, your family heritage, your professional image, your expertise, and your experience, all at the same time. Give me another two search words that cover all of that.

2. People use their first and last name in documents and websites in similar ways that differ extensively from other words Most of us, for example, don’t have social networking accounts, blogs, press releases, work history, personal comments and video files all attached to a string of keywords like “buy movies now”.

Recently, do to the pending release of the free movie Boy Who Never Slept and an aggressive marketing campaign, references to ‘solomon rothman’ have increased dramatically and span many different sources. Considering this, I thought it would be a perfect time to do a search comparison on the different types of results to gain a fresh perspective on name searches and what each of the search engines prefer.

Initial things to note:

1. My myspace account is very new with almost to no outside links pointing at it.

2. I use my real name solomonrothman in my usernames for website profile pages. Examples of this are below.
www.myspace.com/solomonrothman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Solomonrothman
Search results by each engine for solomon rothman

On MSN (results summarized in bullets)

* My website
* My profile page on associated content
* My profile page on Design Firms
* My profile page on Blog Flux
* My user page on Wikipedia
* Google Video listing
* Contact page on top design firms

On Yahoo (results summarized in bullets)

* The other solomon rothman’s website (not me)
* My website
* Specific associated content articles
* Deep pages within my website
* Archive.org
* Press releases
* Creative commons blog
* Directories
* Comments I made on some substantial blogs
* Dig article
* Google video

On Google (results summarized in bullets )

* My website
* My user profile at Associated Content
* Profile at blog Flux
* WikiNews Article
* Design Firms Profile
* Internet Archive
* Feedburner URL
* LOTS OF PRESS RELEASES
* Google Video listing
* Wikipedia User Page
* Myspace Profile

This is my no means scientific, but by comparing all three there are some interesting conclusions that could be drawn or at least hypothesized about. You would of course need a lot more test data, to make any concrete, but here are some interesting comparisons.
Analysis on searching for a persons name or first name, last name searches

Commonalities among all 3:

* my personal website to be the most important / relevant (yahoo liked the personal website of the other solomon rothman more)
* individual Google Video Listings were included in the top results

Individual Relevancy Preferences
MSN

* Values both topic related and general Profile and user pages on large established websites and social networks over other results.
* Wikipedia pages including user pages
* Link Directories

It’s interesting that it brings up my wikiusername page on the first page results, this is just a free userpage used to let editors I may be working with know more about me.

Yahoo

* Specific Articles (as opposed to the profile pages at article submission or promotion sites)
* Deep pages within personal website
* Internet Archive Listings (put them above Google Video)
* Listings and tag entires on technorati.com (blog search engine with listings and tags)

Google

* Highly values profile pages on topical sites like (designfirms.org)
* Myspace
* Wikinews items rank very high
* Internet Archive Video Listings appear EXTRMELEY high
* Individual Video Listing from other video distrubition websites like bolt, and vivemo.
* feedburner urls
* press releases

Individual Dislikes or things that seen to rank substantially lower specifically on these engines
MSN

* Doesn’t rank press releases very high in results for a person’s name, puts them after profile pages, and directories.
* Listings and tag entires on technorati.com (blog search engine with listings and tags) none show up in the top 100.

Yahoo

* Wikipedia Items (not one listing in the top 100, as opposed to msn, (in top 10) and Google in top 30

Google
# listings and tag entries on technorati.com

Remember that I use my real name as my username and repeat it specifically on the about me pages etc of each of these websites, that I’m sure obviously if you don’t use your first name or last name on these sites, they won’t come up.

Interesting things to note:

In the top 50 resutls of MSN was included my user page on the social bookmarking system del.icio.us/solomonrothman . That’s EXTREMELY intesting because in the meta tags on that page say no index, no follow and no archive:

It appears msn is not only indexing this page, but ranking it above other information rich sites for certain keywords. YET ANOTHER REASON TO start SOCIAL BOOKMARKING.

Interesting trends applicable to all searches
Video in regular search results

Video listings, especially on Google Video and the Internet Archive are showing up for regular keyword searches that don’t use the word video, movie, etc. It appears all the search engines consider topic specific videos (at least the video listing pages) to be as relevant as regular information / text rich websites. A great example is search google for Helicopter fire California. Thinking the “old way” I would guess this search to bring up news articles using those keywords, and it does for some of the results.

In the first 15 entires there are 3 separate references to a video file I uploaded showing a helicopter drop over a fire in California. 2 separate entries for various listing on archive.org and another listing for the google video listing.

This is very powerful and although it may have been prominent in the past, I don’t remember bringing up very many video listings on my normal searches, but things are changing, video is becoming the new sought-after relevant content in the online arena.

My space is a very powerfully free resource(other social networks are too) Even without any additional promotion (outside links for example) my myspace account ranked among the top sites in for my name in both MSN and Google. That’s huge. If you want to put some information on the top spots for a name search and don’t have a lot of time/budget/knowledge to undergo an SEO campaign, consider joining myspace and using your real first and last name.

You could have your personal page among the top spots in a matter of weeks. Of course if your name is extremely common, this tactic probably won’t work.
No luck for John Smith.

Wikipedia is a great place to contribute information
As an extra bonus you may receive some Search Engine Recognition for it

Articles are still a great way to promote yourself and there are some great places that will even pay you for your published articles and still link to your site.

Solomon Rothman

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LG manufacturer has launched a glossy and stylish mobile phone handset its name LG KU990 Viewty which is acclaimed among the mobile phone users by reason of its awesome features. This smart gadget has many attractive features such as 3.0 inches TFT touchscrean display with 256k internal screen color pari-passu a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels. Users of this cell phone will find clearness screen while playing games and watching video clips. Moreover, they can download wallpapers with this handset. It is available in various colours such as black, dark silver, purple, pink and hot red.  LG KU990 Viewty has Polyphonic-channels near about 40 and easily downloading of MP3 Ringtones. 500 entries of contact are easily stored in the Phonebook with the photograph of a contact and its call register contains records of 40 dialed, 40 received numbers and 40 missed call numbers.

LG KU990 Viewty has exciting games, songs and video clips for the user to take fun. The music media player can encode and play MP3, MPEG4, WMV, AAC, DivX archive. The splendid cell phone has an interior memory of 100 MB and the external memory is expandable up to 2 GB, this allows the users to stock many unforgettable and favorite images, video clips and audio songs. Moreover, LG KU990 Viewty also has a feature of FM radio with RDS scheme, with which a subscriber can get connected to his favorite radio stations as well as get any information concerning the songs which are playing.

The specification for this smart cell phone, it has a 5 mega pixels camera with a resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels. This camera phone also has the functions of video recording in VGA mode at 30 frames per second and in QVGA mode up to 120 frames per second, which preserve high picture quality. The user can also enjoy the video conferencing facility while using the function of its secondary VGA camera for video calling and video recording.

LG KU990 Viewty is co-operative of web-browsing networks of GSM 900/1800/1900, GPRS, EDGE and tri-band HSDPA 2100 of 3.6 Mbps, which endow high speed web connectivity and data transfers. The web-browsing on the Gadget in encoded with WAP 2.0/xHTML and HTML stood by web browser. This mobile phone device can be smoothly connected with other handsets and computers via Bluetooth v1.2 and USB v2.0 technologies. The cell phone also has the facility of messaging SMS, MMS, EMS and the data files can be viewed by reason of its compatibility with admired encoded designs e.g., DOC, XLS and PDF to name a few. The mobile phone comes with attractive magnitude of 103.5 x 54.4 x 14.8 mm and has a weight of only 112g.

John Daniel123

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Software Required:

iMedia Converter for Mac

Step 1, Run iMedia Converter for Mac

To install it, simply mount the .dmg archive by double-clicking it, and copy the application to your applications folder (or wherever you want it).

Step 2, Load DVD or Videos you want to add watermark to

You can click on “Load DVD” to load DVD or click on “Load videos” to add video files for editing and converting.

After a DVD or several video files are imported successfully, you can see all of them listed in the program.

Step 3, Choose and enable “Watermark” function

Click “Edit”, you will get video Edit panel.

Choose watermark option by clicking “watermark” bottom:

then check “Enable Watermak” to enable watermark function:

Step 4, Add TEXT Watermark or Image Watermark to Videos or DVD on Mac

If you want to add Text Watermark to the videos, just follow the steps below:

1. Check “TEXT Watermark” option to edit text watermark.

2. Type in the text you attempt to use as watermark in text watermark area.

3. Click  ”A” to select the font you like for the text. Click “C” to choose color for the text.

4. Adjust Transparency, Vertical Space and Level Space by dragging the sliders or input the values manually.

If you want to add (png. or jpg) Image Watermark to the videos, just follow the steps below:

1. Check “Image Watermark” option to edit image watermark.

2. Click   to specify the image you want to use as watermark.

3. Adjust Transparency, Vertical Margin and Horizontal Margin by dragging the sliders.

4. Resize the height or width by inputting numbers in Image Size area or clicking .

Step 5, Finish editing and start to convert.

Click “OK” to exit the edit pannel.

Then choose the output format such as MP4, MKV, MOV, M4V, AVI, FLV, 3GP, 3GPP, 3G2, MPG, ASF, etc. as you want.

After all the necessary settings and editing job, the last step is re-encoding your video.

clicking “Convert” button to start the watermark video conversion.

How to add text watermark or image watermark to video and DVD on Mac?

leony

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