Lately, thanks to the success of the Design Resources Search Engine, I’ve been obsessing about my stats. I don’t know if you noticed it, but WordPress’s stats uses google blog search to display your incoming links. Don’t ask me why blog search returns 45 results linking here, while the regular search only finds 24 links. I’m far from being a Search Engine Optimization expert.

But anyway this got me curious and I tried googling my own name. Appropriately, my own site comes in first. But I was susprised to see that the second result is my LinkedIn profile, which I created about a year ago and completely forgot about since. Guess this means I should start updating it… The other results are moslty links to my grid article.

I then googled my last name. I come in fifth, which is not too bad considering my last name is fairly short, although not that common. What’s more, none of the first four results are individuals, which officially makes me the single most important individual named “Greif” in the world, far ahead of my relatives (my uncle and my father are somewhere in there).

I then googled my first name.  I only come in 33rd… Damn you Borat !!

Don’t miss the second part of this series, where I talk about how to give your baby a unique name for maximum SEO (hint: who said all names need to have vowels in them ?)