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mikekelley
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May 01, 2012 19:10 |  #1

Alright, so this has been bugging me for awhile now.

I go by Mike, Michael, MK, and for some reason nobody can ever spell my last name right: Kelly instead of Kelley.

I was wondering how this all plays with Google. My website, links leading to my site, other websites on the web, my name here, my name on other forums, my name on facebook, etc, etc, all vary between Mike and Michael Kelley, or mpkelley.com, or whatever.

Does google all treat this as one 'similar' name? So if someone were to search for 'Mike Kelley photography" would google convert that into "Michael Kelley photography" and send them to my page? Or does 'Mike Kelley' just get lost when compared to 'Michael Kelley?'

Am I making any sense at all?

Reader's digest version: There are many versions of my name across the internet. When someone searches for one version of my name, does google lump all the results together as if it was one name?

e.g..Mike Kelley Photography = Michael Kelley Photography = Mike Kelly Photography = Michael Kelly Photography...and so on and so forth.


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May 01, 2012 19:20 |  #2

And before anyone asks the obvious question of 'why didn't you make your name the same across all of the platforms' it's because I didn't really plan on ever doing this for a living when I started getting online :lol:


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May 01, 2012 19:27 |  #3

If people commonly search one of them, but end up on your site still, it will be a suggested result.

If I were you, I'd make an effort to unify things moving forward.


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May 01, 2012 19:44 |  #4

Use all the spellings in the key word section of the site. While google pretty much ignores the keywords anymore. It will still read them and associeate them with your site.


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May 03, 2012 11:40 |  #5

Am in the same boat as you, started with fb page and was looking for domain, ended up having different. Now after more than an year of doing this part time and thanks to being made redundant, I am now going full time and the name I am going with officially as an llc is diff. Thinking of setting up new website and fb page and other presence in line with new name.


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