The key to all this is linking back to my site. External links are so crucial in SEO. Not just any old link but quality external links. Links that contain my name and are found on a page that relates to me are extremely valuable. My public Facebook page won’t show a link to my site so that is a bummer, but all the other ones do. Having external pages with “Les James” in the title and a well written link pointing to my site should push me over the edge to number one. This weekend Facebook is going to start handing out user names so I’ll be sure to grab the lesjames handle (this will allow me to have “lesjames” in the facebook url). Every little reference should help. I don’t remember being late to the Gmail party but from day one all the user names that contained my name were gone so I went with my gamer handle of Serak. So having Serak003 in the url instead of lesjames doesn’t do me any favors but we’ll see where this Google profile gets me. I am led to believe that the profile will show up in the search results so we’ll see.

I have pointed back to each of these pages in the footer of my site (see icons next to the about me blurb). Linking out to these sites probably won’t boost me but at least it points the spider in the right direction. If I think of anything else I’ll be sure to update this post but for now I just have to play the waiting game. Watch out you other Les’s out there! Yea you the musician in San Fran and the personal trainer in New York, I’m out to get you. As for the 1919 Australian rules footballer on Wikipedia, I guess you are safe for now.