Who am I? That is a question man has pondered since time immemorial. So how could I go about answering the question, who is David Temple? Well, I could attend a course where according to the syllabus I would read and respond in individual, literal, critical and evaluative ways to literary, informational and persuasive text to start. Then I could generate questions before, during and after reading, writing, listening and viewing. Next I would ask and answer my own and other’s text-related critical and analytical questions.
Too.Much.Work. I think all I need to do is google myself. Hey, never thought of that before;) So I set out to find myself, who is David Temple? Here’s what I found.
There are about 713,000 results for my name. I hate that first and second result are about David Temple, who murdered his pregnant wife ala Scott Peterson. ? It sucks that those are the top results. Can I sue Google for calling me a killer? I know I’m not a killer but would someone searching for me know? I doubt they would but I still don’t like it. Talk about a reputation management issue.
Hey, this blog comes in a three now that’s not bad. Can this post “David Temple according to Google” move me up? We’ll have to wait and see. Of course, if you fine readers would link here with the anchor text, David Temple, that would help 
The fourth result is about a symphony director, not bad but I don’t know squat about music so that ain’t me either. And the fifth result is about another musically inclined David Temple, a classic guitarist and composer. Looks like I’m in the wrong profession for my name. At least he has my name as his domain name, I guess he is relevant.
I’m sure you’ve checked to see who Google says you are. Are you happy with the results?
I’m adding a link to commenters here to aid in their quest to own their name on the serps. I don’t have Jenna’s last name so I’ll pass on her but I will give a shouy out to Paul Savage an seo that has a German/Irish thing going on. Sounds like a lot of beer drinking to me.
Interesting.. I’m about to see what Google comes up with for me!
[...] by SEMScholar.com this morning, I read an interesting post by David Temple where he cites the fact that he has a slight reputation management issue when the top to SERP [...]
Just pinged you there David. It sounds easier than it is making sure you rank for your own name. Of course people in the business would expect to find you easily (by the nature of your job).
Paul
[...] just blogged about who Google thinks David Temple is and I can tell you it is not very pretty. In particular the top results are about a wife killer. [...]
Thanks for the nice link David. I see myself now coming up as #140 on G.com , and hopefully it will come to a nicer figure over time.
All the best,
paul
Hi David,
It’s hard to get a picture based on 1 result.
You might like to rotate IPs through a US/Canadian IP, Europe IP and see how the serps differ.
I’ve not had a problem ranking #1 for my name and related terms since I started blogging regularly.
The other SEM activities like buying links, submitting to high authority sites/directories can be farmed out to the Phillipines quite inexpensively…
Hi David,
I did some online reputation management for a established commercial photographer who was trying to show up in google above another photographer with same name who specialized in nudes and weird stuff posted on myspace. I found get some slinks to social networking sites and evening posting photography related items to blogs,local search directories, even ebay and craigslist helped him compete btter with the younger gut whonused social media websites heavily. I may have met yiu when I worked at FindLaw. John Clifford Local Search Optimization for Law Firms and Professional services