{"id":70,"date":"2008-10-16T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2008-10-16T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T21:57:00","slug":"smlp-rebranding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/smlp-rebranding\/","title":{"rendered":"SMLP: Rebranding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just been playing around with a few things lately to try and do one simple thing. Brand everything I do on-line.<\/p>\n

For a long time I have used a very similar user name for all of the different websites that I use.\u00a0 I’m sure most people do this;\u00a0 your “sign up” email address will normally match the user name you register when you head over to a new social network site.\u00a0 twitter.com\/bob\u00a0 digg.com\/bob etc etc.<\/p>\n

For a long time I used “biscuit” which was great to start off with but lets be honest there is no way I would ever show up in a Google search with a user name like that.\u00a0 So I have been moving everything I do across to “smlp”.<\/p>\n

My goal was to make it easier for people to find some of the crap that I put on the interweb.\u00a0 Basically I wanted to get things to the point of when you search from my avatar\/name you would easily find some of the things that I do.\u00a0 Now there is no prize for doing this you understand, it was just to see if I could do it.
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\nTurns out.. it was easy.\u00a0 I basically changed (where possible) my user name for sites that I’m registered to match my website address (i.e. smlp.co.uk or smlp) and I’m starting to re-register to all others using “smlp”.<\/p>\n

Six of the top ten searches in Google now find my different networks and also just typing “smlp” into the address bar in most browsers take you here. Before I did this it was only one in ten on the search results and finding my site was a nightmare unless I pointed people straight here.<\/p>\n

Basically I have set-up my own online brand.<\/p>\n

or have I?<\/p>\n

Let me know if you don’t think I have even come close to Branding my on-line stuff or if you think I’m just full of shit… I would love to hear from you in the comments below.<\/p>\n

Also if anyone out there want to help me with a bit for wordpress theme editing….\u00a0 I want to use a 3 column layout just @smlp me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just been playing around with a few things lately to try and do one simple thing. Brand everything I do on-line. For a long time I have used a very similar user name for all of the different websites that I use.\u00a0 I’m sure most people do this;\u00a0 your “sign up” email address will normally … Continue reading SMLP: Rebranding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[86,394],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","tag-branding","tag-smlp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}