If i want to get my name to the top of search engines to be found by lost friends or relatives....?

[ஐURGreasyGrannyஐ]

How do i go about doing that?
I have typed my name in and tryed to find information on myself but im not having any luck.Im signed up with Facebook,Meetup,and Myspace,but they are mixed in with other people who have my name.
I want my daughter and her adoptive mother to be able to find me easily when the information becomes available to them.
So how to i put my public info out there for them to find me?

[Holly N]

you might try registering with the adoption websites that are trying to link folks up. Also make sure that you have a letter in your file at the adoption agency you used with all your information and stating that you do want contact.

good luck

[sprite]

Are you using the name that you used when the child was born? That would be the first thing to consider if your daughter were looking for you. Post that and any and all information surrounding the birth on every web site you can and ask to be contacted by any matches. Be sure you are in the phone book under that same name. On those other sites, you might mention that you are searching for a relative or someone special that you would like to contact again or something like that that suggests you are looking for her, but not being specific. Unless you look for her, you will just have to wait. I know someone who is very frustrated because she cannot find her birth Mother. Some records for whatever reason can never be found.

[Ted Pack]

I come up first for "Ted Pack" in Google, but I have a web site, I've posted answers to over 8,000 questions here on Y!A and another couple of thousand on real genealogy bulletin boards and I have been using the WWW since 1998.

Companies who want to get to the top of the search engines for phrases like "Home mortgage", "cheap air fare", "viagra by mail", "naked babes" and "hotel packages" will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to SEO consultants; SEO is "Search Engine Optimization".

The search engines, in turn, keep exactly how they rank sites a secret. They want to deliver the most useful information possible, so that we web surfers keep using them instead of their competitors, and, in turn, keep reading the advertisements they sell, instead of the advertisements their competitors sell.

Suppose "Acme Fly-by-Nite", which offered full price and slow service, discovered that the more pictures of airplanes you had on your site, the higher Google ranked your site for the term "Discount Air fares". They would put 400,000 tiny images of airplanes on their site, and they would come up first in Google for "Discount air fare". If Viagra sellers did the same with pills and home mortgage refinancing companies did the same with houses, pretty soon people would use Yahoo! or MSN instead of Google.

Your "presence" counts; someone named Ted Pack who had a facebook page instead of http://www.tedpack.org,and had answered 400 or so questions, would rank below me in a search engine. How many people link to you counts. Beyond that is a dark secret.

Google has a rather technical article about ranking here:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters...swer=35769

If you are not an experienced web designer, amateur or professional, your chances of getting to be first are small. You CAN register with adoption boards, as one person has already said. You CAN hope to come up first for the combination of your name, and the town and state your daughter was born in.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not the world's greatest SEO expert. As proof, I'm still trying - and failing - to get my church to come up first for "Turlock Unitarian". The Unitarian Universalist church I go to is in Modesto, California but serves the entire county; Turlock is the second largest city in the county. We have a dozen members from Turlock, and if you live there and want a UU church, we're the only option. Our church site comes up fourth for those two words.

I'm sorry to be such a wet blanket. I wish you the best of luck.