Re: Googling Self

**M* L* <m*@earthlink.net>**

People are actually using articles word for word? I often write something
like "Thomas Ogren reports..." (quoting myself here) then a paraphrase of
one of your statements. I think that's fair use, isn't it? I discovered
some time ago that one should use every permutation of a name to find all
of the references. You should also use initials.
 I Google myself too, as I suspect most writers do now. And I too often
find websites and so on that are using articles of mine without my
permission. But I like to see this because in my case it is just that
much more free PR. I can't afford to advertise so free PR is the ticket.

My theory is that for book writers at least, you can't get too much PR.
The really only bad PR is no PR and every time my name or the title
allergy free gardening gets into print or on the radio or on TV, it is
all good.

For fun I Googled Doreen, Andrew, myself, and Graham....and Grahm Rice
is putting us all to shame as far as Google hits.....no doubt the result
of much hard work and lots of good writing.

A tip on this: I discovered, late, that the search engine spiders "see"
Tom Ogren, Thomas Ogren, and Thomas Leo Ogren, as three different
people.....thus very different numbers and results on each of these in a
search. My advice would be to pick one name and stick with it.

Tom

Margaret L

Gardening in Intermountain West and Handicapped gardening

http://www.margaretlauterbach.com 

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