[LINK] Who's googling you?

[Jan Whitaker]

BrandYourself's Google Tool Tells You Who's Searching For You

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/brandyourself-google_n_1470501.html?ref=topbar

The Huffington Post  |

Ever wonder who might be Googling you?

A new feature offered by <https://brandyourself.com/>BrandYourself, a 
site that helps its users 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/google-problems-brandyourself_n_1369012.html>manage 
their online reputations by controlling the links that show up as top 
search results on Google, can help you find out where, when and how 
others are searching for you.

<http://mashable.com/2012/05/01/brandyourself-google/>According to 
Mashable, the new tool, launched on May 1, works with the help of a 
database of companies' public IP addresses compiled by the site. 
BrandYourself uses the database to 
<http://mashable.com/2012/05/01/brandyourself-google/>match the IP 
address of a profile's visitor with the company that owns the 
address. In this way, BrandYourself users are able to figure out 
where (based on where the IP address-owner is located), when and how 
others have searched for them on search engines like Google or 
through other sites, as shown in the photo below, provided by 
<http://brandyourself.com/>BrandYourself.


"They are being Googled," BrandYourself co-founder Patrick Ambron 
<http://mashable.com/2012/05/01/brandyourself-google/>told Mashable. 
"It gives them an idea of who is looking them up, and it motivates 
them to update their profile and make sure they're putting their best 
foot forward."

To create your own BrandYourself profile, which you'll need to use 
this feature, simply <http://brandyourself.com/>visit the site, enter 
an email address and password you would like to use to log in and 
then plug in the name you would like to control in search engines. 
The steps that follow will guide you on how to use the site's main 
service, which allows you to submit links you would like to show up 
as main results on search engines and then offers suggestions on how 
to boost these links to the top of the results list. After signing up 
and creating a profile, you can view who has searched for you on the 
site's homepage.

<http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/01/now-brandyourself-users-can-see-the-companies-googling-them/?grcc=33333Z98ZtrendingZ0>TechCrunch 
reports that BrandYourself now has 25,000 registered users taking 
advantage of this new feature and the site's 
<https://brandyourself.com/>other free tools. In addition, nearly 
1,000 of them pay $9.99 per month to use the site's premium service, 
which, among other things, allows users to view more information 
about their profile's visitors and submit an 
<https://brandyourself.com/help/faq>unlimited number of links to 
track and boost.

For more tips on how you can manage your online reputation with 
BrandYourself, 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/google-problems-brandyourself_n_1369012.html>read 
on for one user's experience on the site.



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