You’d think that by having the domain www.emilyingram.com, my site would pop up automatically on Google when you search for my name.

Ha.

So maybe I’m the kind of nerd that Googled her own name after I set up my blog, thinking I’d see it pop up fairly close to the top of list. Also maybe I’m the kind of nerd that was a little disappointed when the that didn’t happen.

Evidently, Google deemed Emily Ingram from Harvard way more important than Emily Ingram of UNL. She got the top spot.

I saw an Emily Ingram profile from LinkedIn in the top 10 and thought, “Well at least I have that.” Until I clicked on it and realized it was a Yale graduate with my same name.

No emilyingram.com, though.

Way on down the line, even my results from state speech contests in high school made the list.

… Now that’s just sad, I thought. This has to change.

So another quick Google search yielded the solution to my problem: Add your URL to Google.

Now the site pops up as No. 3 in the search, though one of my Ivy League counterparts still beats it out.

I know there is tons to learn about how to title blogs to improve standings in Web searches, but I’m taking things one step at a time.

For now, No. 3 in a Google search will have to do.

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