RealMee shows you the way to Google’s top results
Written on February 29, 2008 – 4:00 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
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All you online identity experts out there, there’s a new kid on the block. It’s called RealMee, a service that allows people to set up a profile page ‘in seconds’. You can share contact details, add personal stuff such as the school you went to and display videos and widgets. What else is new? You might ask. Well, your blogger is here to tell you.
The service has one main advantage, somehow it makes sure that your page shows up in the top search results. Are they fooling Google? The FAQ says:
No, we are not. We play by the rules set by search engines. This means no cloaking, linkfarming and all those other geeky terms that describe ways of influencing search engines in prohibited ways. We know we cannot build a solid service based on lies. We simply make sure your personal website is found by search engines and the best way to help improve your own ranking is by linking to your own RealMee website from wherever you think it might be relevant, e.g. from your Facebook, LinkedIn, or MySpace profile.
I’ve tested it by searching for some folks from the - not so practical - RealMee index and the RealMee page was always on the first page.
This might not be that relevant for you, since I assume you’re a pretty web-savvy person. Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this tech blog. You know how to get your blog to the top results. Yet for the less geeky crowd, this could be a handy way to manage their online identity. Now they can finally start to fight those drunk pictures that always show up on Google. And you know what? They owe it to Scoble, since the founders Ronald Carpentier and Hans Helms wrote this on their ‘About us‘ page:
One simple question from Robert Scoble got us thinking: “What if we could just post one post with all the stuff you’d want to appear in Google or Live Search or Yahoo for when people search for your name?” The need was clear. People need to control how they are found when people look for them online.
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One Response to “RealMee shows you the way to Google’s top results”
By Ronald Carpentier on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply
Hi Ernst-Jan,
Thanks for the nice post and overview of the service. One thing that might be of interest is our long term goal which is to enable people to manage their online identity on a Web that will become more and more distributed.
This implies that we adhere to standards and standards based solutions as much as possible to ensure interoperability between RealMee and other web services. For example, we have already implemented a number of microformats and are preparing an OpenID implementation.
Cheers,
Ronald