Google Yourself

Google Yourself
by Lynn Tincher

Yes, I know. Telling you to Google yourself sounds funny. It is a very important task to add to your schedule for many reasons.

First, you will find what others are saying about you. You may turn up in an article or blog that you had no idea you were going to be a part of.

Once you have a book published, artwork available, etc., you can use the search engines to see where these items are turning up for sale. I was surprised to see my book being viewed in Australia for example.

You can also protect yourself. I recently had a friend tell me about her poetry ending up on someone's site. The user had not credited her at all in their publishing of her work. She was able to get that taken care of and was happy with the results. There are a few vultures out that that will pick you clean and this is .just one way to help you monitor what is going on.

Here are a few sites to search for your information:

www.google.com
www.ask.com
www.yahoo.com
www.webcrawler.com

There are plenty of others.

Copyright 2008 Lynn Tincher