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| Top search engines Google and Yahoo |
The normal way of
googling your profile name is by simply typing it. If it fails to
search your name further, you may refine the search by typing your name
in quotations or include other details such as your address.
2. The internet is a storage or archive of information that contains the history of online actions or digital footprints which can be easily searched by others. Joining various websites and later become inactive without complete
deletion of profile, comments on forums or blogs, uploading photos in
social networking sites, playing online games and alike.
It
is advisable to remove unnecessary online content and always check
privacy settings of accounts especially with social networking websites
such as Facebook. To keep privacy, one option is to create a separate online profile name in business or various freelancing activities from your personal image.
3. A prospective employer can check your name in the internet to investigate about your background, it is therefore important that good reference of data will appear on the search. If there is a profile
name same as yours with a negative record, atleast you are already
aware of it and know how to answer during the interview.
To remove unwanted
content in the Internet, Google had provided its members to remove
certain URLs from their index or search results. Read more about the
simple steps:
a. Follow the link,
b. Login to your Goolge account
c. Click "new removal request" and enter the URL you want to remove (be careful since it is case sensitive)
d.There are cases that it may be still visible in Google, you may request "removal of the cached version of the page".
Removing your content
from Google does not mean total deletion of the content, it still exist
on the website where it appears. But by requesting from Google, this
will decrease visibility from the Internet. The best option is to
contact the webmaster especially if the unwanted content affects your
online image. From the Google Webmaster Help page, here are the simple
ways to do it:
a. Find "Contact Us"
page from the website, sometimes it is by submitting a form to them or
simply just check for their admin email address. Write to them about
your situation and justify your request for the removal of the unwanted
page.
b. Look for the
website information by using a special search "Whois", type "who is
www.example.com", you may also want to contact the webhosting company
that appears listed from your Whois search result.
Older links are
replaced by new data links, it is advisable to reinforce your online
profile by positive descriptions that would be more searchable.
4. If you are a freelance writer, you will be able to see if someone is using your own profile name. You can easily identify the websites you have joined and those that are not which also appears your profile name.
An incident happened when a fellow writer supposedly a member of a writing
content website that accepts republished articles was not real, but
using a different PayPal email address where payment is received. The fake writer uses the profile name of the real writer, copy the original articles of the real writer from the source website and republished it to another website. No one would suspect about the fraud since they have the same profile names and the second content website is accepting republished articles. It is fortunate that the real writer was able to discover this fraud and contest it with the second content website. They acknowledged the proofs presented and awarded the profile name including the payment to the real writer.
