Do you exist on the Internet? Having a presence in the Internet environment is especially important, especially in the light of today's highly competitive labor market. Having an online presence means that you can find it in a search, and the ability to search in a search gives you a certain degree of trust in someone who does not have an online presence.
When you put your name on a search engine, can you be found? If the answer to this question is “No” will be ready, since the subsequent information will forever change this answer to “Yes”.
Today, many HR departments are looking for profiles, photos, and other information, good or bad, to find out and evaluate potential new employees.
Therefore, it is especially important to think about what you are posting, as your current job or future job search may be affected accordingly. I’m sure most of us have heard of someone in the news who lost their jobs as a result of some unflattering information or photos appearing on the web. So think about your online presence as your online resume. You will not share with unimaginable information about yourself in your resume, do not put on the Internet unflattering information about yourself!
With this in mind, let me first take a look at what I call Security Tips before going on to increase your online presence.
Probably the most important thing you need to know, if you don’t know it yet, never publish any information about yourself that you don’t want the whole world to know; only to report information that you are comfortable with others, seeing and knowing. Never publish your social security number, bank account or credit card numbers anywhere in the public Internet zone if you do not want your identity to be stolen. If you have any doubts, feel the threat or inconvenience due to something on the Internet, immediately inform the police or the FBI.
Remember, as soon as you publish information on the Internet, you cannot return it. Even if you delete information, old versions exist there somewhere on the server or on someone else's computer.
Seriously, in my very narrow, biased and perverted opinion, I recommend not even considering the publication of your photo. You have no idea how this can be changed. Your face may be stolen on someone else’s body in an unflattering position or setting up or sent in such a way that you cannot be happy and you cannot control. And if you are like me, dynamic and charismatic in person, but look disgusting in print, people can judge you by your photo, and you can lose at an interview or at work simply because someone doesn’t like the way you look.
In addition, many companies search on the Internet to supplement their checks and inclinations based on what they find, and what they find is quite revealing. Like candidates who have declared their qualifications, undisclosed criminal behavior, publishing unflattering gossip about a former employer, boasting about drinking and making drugs, revealing confidential information that threatens an employer's previous competitive advantage, provocative photos, and even unprofessional screen names, which show personal preferences for the weekend, which are best left behind closed doors.
So let's try and define an online presence. I determine the presence of the Internet presence, when you can find it in the search. So how do you do it? You can do this in several ways and with my favorites; listing yourself on web sites, becoming an Internet author, creating a personal web site and keeping a journal on a blog.
You can start by listing yourself on networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook or MySpace. There are other sites available there, but they are the most popular. LinkedIn positions itself as a network for professionals of any age. You can publish your resume, contact past and present colleagues and colleagues, and probably not find drunk party photos.
Facebook, positioned rather as a social network for professionals, as a rule, unites more than 30 people. Here you can also publish a resume and a link with past and present collections and partners. My research on this topic has shown that you can find drunken photos here.
MySpace, on the other hand, is perhaps the most popular social networking site on the web, and is primarily targeted at people under the age of 30. It has a wide range and is used by individuals and groups who want to expand their appeal, as well as others with unique talents who want a wide exposure. With a wink and a boost, I say that this site is also a resource if you are looking for photos of young people who have a great time. But, as I said earlier, human resources departments are looking for profiles, photos and other information on the Internet to find out and evaluate potential new employees. Therefore, it is especially important to think about what you are posting, as your current job or future job search may be affected accordingly. Remember, as soon as you publish information on the Internet, you cannot return it. One of my concerns is that many of today's young people in their later years will regret what they published in their youth.
Then, let's take a look at becoming an Internet author. In my opinion, this is one of the most important activities you can take to increase your online presence. By publishing what is called “authoritative documents”, you have created and have established yourself as an expert in your topic or topic, and you become the so-called “SME” or subject matter expert.
The easy part of becoming an Internet author is that there are so many free publishing sites on the Internet to choose where you can publish your article. Just do a search with the keywords Free Internet edition, and you will be presented with a cornucopia of sites that are looking forward to your work. You will find these sites user-friendly writers, and your published articles will appear in the search engines a few days after they are accepted and published. Keep your eyes open as I do while reading online content. You will find additional publishing sites that you may not have known if you could publish your work.
So how do you do it? I do it like this:
Choose a topic about which you know something. Explore this topic online, on the news and at your local library. Write a draft of the article and spell check it out. Then read it. Rewrite the article and spell check. Read the article again. Rewrite the article and spell, checking it again, doing it as many times as you see fit, until you get the article to flow the way you want it. Then publish the article.
My advice to potential writers is to follow the steps above. If you are not a master author, your first attempt in any article should always be considered as the first of several drafts. The last thing you want to do with your fledgling internet authoring card should be banned from a free publishing site for poor quality writing.
Creating a personal website is another great way to increase your online presence. As suggested above in online publishing, do a search with the keywords Free Web Hosting, and you will be presented with many free websites. In the early days of the Internet, it was necessary to study in such as HTML, computer code, designed to define your site in a certain way. Today, free sites hosted on the Internet are extremely easy to set up; choose your format, specify, click, write, paste and create a very professional website that appears in the search engines a few days after its creation.
You can also increase your sites. the ability to search by sending it to the main search robots. Go to sites & # 39; Site Explorer and enter the URL of your web page in the appropriate field. This will tell the search engine that your site is there and is available for others to search, rather than wait for web searchers to stumble upon it.
You can also increase your online presence by creating and blogging a blog. It has been estimated that over 1.6 million blog posts are being created every day, and I read that search engines find blogs very easily. With this in mind, you can guess that blogging is a very good way to increase your online presence.
Let's start by defining a blog. A blog is a noun that is not appropriate for a weblog; A web page that serves as a publicly accessible, personal online journal is the ability to leave comments in an interactive format.
As a rule, blogs are updated daily and can even be updated almost immediately, depending on the site. People who create a blog in a conversational manner and posts are usually listed in chronological order with the most recent additions in the first place. If you are familiar with posting on online forums, you'll be right at home on a blog.
You will find how creating your own website is also very easy to create a blog. Again, search by keyword Free blog hosting, and you will be presented with many free hosting sites that are easy to set up. As with setting up your personal website, you simply choose your format, specify, click, write, paste and create a very professional blog that will appear in the search engines a few days after its creation.
Then put all your sites and articles together. One of the most important attributes of increasing your online presence is to make sure that your name is in everything that you publish. Now link your network sites, articles, website and blog together, including the URL from each of them on all your other sites and articles. That way, when people read your article, they just need to click links to go to other posts. The idea is that whenever someone puts your name on a search engine, everything you have comes back with your name. Now it's an online presence!
So be careful what you post and how you say it. Now go there, send, send, send.
