Author Archives: Patrick Ambron
BrandYourself is Temporarily Down. What You Need To Know.
Hi everyone. Yesterday we received an unusually high volume of incoming users and we were forced to upgrade our infrastructure to accommodate everyone. I apologize. I know how inconvienient this is. Our team has been working through the night so we can get everything back up ASAP. In the meantime we want to answer a few
Make Search Engines Your B*tch (Part 4): Advanced Tactics to Boost Your Google Ranking
Part 4: Advanced Tactics to Boost Your Google Ranking Once you’ve built a foundation for Google, it’s time to apply all the basic SEO Rules to your content. This article will go through all the different content you’re building to make sure they are as search engine friendly as possible. Choosing the Right Domain: As we highlighted
Make Search Engines Your B*tch (Part 3): Building the Foundation of Your Online Presence for Google
Part 3: Building the Foundation of Your Online Presence for Google You’ve diagnosed your Google presence in part 1 of this series and learned the basics behind Personal Search Engine Optimization in part 2. Now it’s time to actually start building the foundation of your Google presence with these basic steps everybody should follow to get
How to Make Search Engines Your B*tch (Part 2): Personal SEO 101
What is Search Engine Optimization? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of creating or improving content to make sure it shows up as high as possible in web search results for the right keywords (in the case of personal SEO, your name). 1. Why Is Personal SEO Important? Short and simple, search engines make
New Features! Custom Domain & Free Webinar Wednesdays
Hi everybody, we have a few exciting things to announce! For the last few weeks, we’ve been listening very closely to all your feedback and released a slew of new features we think everyone will enjoy. In this Post you’ll find: Two new features we just released, including applying custom domains. “Webinar Wednesdays”, our new
How Google Will Remember Phelps, Lochte and Gabby Douglas [LEGACY INFOGRAPHIC]
Every Olympics, new stars emerge and they’re surrounded by a lot of chatter, both good and bad. However, once the chatter dies, their post-olympic legacy lives in Google, the place people will go for years to come to learn who they are and what they accomplished. While these results will change over time, we went in
Want to Look Better in Google? Our Data Shows You the Best Ways [our first infographic]
At BrandYourself, our goal is give our users and readers everything they need to put their best foot forward in Google. Since we track the Google results of over 130K users we were able to analyze millions of results and found some really insightful information. Want to look better in Google? Think twice about building your personal website
Find Out What Companies Are Googling You (and 3 other new features)
I’m excited to say that we’ve just released a bunch of awesome new features on BrandYourself that make it easier for anyone to improve the search results for their name (see screenshots below). I also want to say thank you. Since launching 8 weeks ago, we’ve signed up over 100,000 users, thousands of premium members
BrandYourself Wins Top Startup Award at SXSW
Hey everyone, For those of you who’ve been following, we competed last week as one of the finalists in the annual SXSW start-up accelerator competition. SXSW is the largest web tech conference in the world, with over 20,000 attendees coming from around the globe to learn and demonstrate the latest innovations in web, media and marketing
Want to Control What People Find When They Google You? Win a Free Premium BrandYourself Account For Life
1) Announcing our new product and investment round. I’m excited to announce that we’ve officially launched our new product: the only do-it-yourself platform that makes it easy for anyone to take control of their own Google results. Ever since our co-founder Pete couldn’t get an internship in college because he was being mistaken for a drug dealer in