JLH Design Blog

I set out to do a little experiment on my own blog, to get the home page rank for my name(s) without actually using them on the page.

This isn’t really an unknown secret in the SEO community but something that seems to elude a lot of webmasters. The concept is even covered well in Google’s own help documentation.

This sure wasn’t a concentrated effort or something I checked even weekly, but I kept my eye on it, and inspired its improvement every once and a while. I was inspired by Google Blogoscoped where profiles link to Google’s #1 result for your name. Unfortunately for me a government document has occupied that space for as long as I remember. Occasionally individual posts would be there because my name is listed as the author, but on the home page was much more difficult as my name only shows up as an image.

Even harder was another pseudonym I use that is plastered all over popular very powerful sites like Sphinn, Twitter, Digital Point, and Digg.

I’m glad to see that today I noticed both are aligned correctly, which will probably fall apart as soon as some ass clown reads this and tries to mess with it. I suppose I could have just rolled out johnhoneck.com which I’ve let Godaddy make million in adsense on while it sits there parked, but that would have been too easy.

Screen shots saved for future proof:

Perhaps it’s time to retire the JLH moniker…