martinjy.com — Martin Young’s blog

What happens if I google “Martin Young”?

I’m sure most people have googled themselves. Today I did the first all the web search for “martin young” since I started writing this blog just to see where I am. The first result that has anything to do with me is this blog at #103. The first result for me in an Australia only search for “martin young” sees an Australian Marketing Institute post about new members at #78 with this blog at #99. Not sure why the AMI post didn’t make it into the results for all-web.

I’m not surprised that this blog doesn’t rank higher. It doesn’t garner many incoming links and apart from this post I hardly ever mention my name. It’ll be interesting to see whether this post changes that and bumps me up the list.

(A search for martinjy returns this blog as #1 on both an Australia only search and all the web - but nobody’s searching for martinjy!)

Ignoring where I rank for a moment, the fun thing about googling yourself is seeing what all the other Martin Young’s of the world do. In order of today’s Google results I’m a struggling TV actor, a Palaeoclimatologist with CSIRO, a co-author of a pathology book, the complete folk entertainer, a research fellow at Charles Darwin University, a bespoke artist, a mad wizard, I was a reasonable cricketer for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, a garden furniture maker, a stained glass artist, some sort of lawyer, a web and graphic designer, a midfielder for Hartlepool, and more. Makes me think I need an About page on this blog. Might have to get around to that shortly.

** update 7 March: “martin young” is now 53rd in an all the web Google search. No idea whether this post has had an impact or Google just likes me today….!