My personal search page

[AndySolo]

www.myname.com

I watched the "White Board Friday" video on creating your own website based on your name. Can anyone explain why this would be a good concept for me? I'm currently involved in

1. Marketing for the company I work for

2. Sales for the company I work for

3. Affiliate Marketing/ Site Creation as side projects

4. SEO as a free-lance part-time offering

5. PPC & Web-marketing as a free-lance part-time offering

Would my personal page be to showcase all of this? why is it beneficial for SEO?

[joshuah]

If you use your personal website to showcase your other projects, if nothing else that is one more place to link to all of them. Then, for example, if you blog about what you are doing and learning, any time you get people to link to your site you are also increasing the link juice you are sending to your other projects. And of course there are also the more indirect benefits of building your personal brand / reputation / opportunities for networking and becoming a thought leader in your niche(s) / etc.

[AndySolo]

Andrewsolomon.com and Andysolomon.com are gone. Should I use my middle initial andrewjsolomon.com? or is that too much information?

[joshuah]

Andrew J Solomon sounds good to me. With a fairly common name you might need to distinguish yourself online a little bit. This YouMoz post from Ross Hudgens has some great ideas for establishing your personal brand even if your have a common name that is already taken. The main key is to pick a version of your name / nickname and use it consistently as much as possible (url, social network usernames, etc)

[AndySolo]

Guess I should stick with AndyMisiu then. Since it's my username on most of my forums already and available across most accounts.