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Why you should brand your own name online
Branding your own name online is actually a lot easier than you would think. Since there's not much competition, branding your name online can be quicker than an SEO campaign and last much longer. Whenever you're bored online I'm sure there has been at least one or two times that you've searched your own name to see what pops up. I know I've done it and I've come across some really weird stuff and rarely do I ever find something about myself, unless I did some branding.
When you're branding your own name online you're basically making it so that when you type in your name to the search engine address bar, you're information pops up for everyone to see. A lot of people may think that this is pointless because no one is searching their names, but you'd be amazed at how many people actually do 
A few reasons to brand your own name online
Reason 1: Job Applications
With todays technology wave it's easier to figure out a lot about a person just by searching their name online. You can search their name and location to find all of their social profiles and then stem off from there to figure out who they really are when no one is looking. An employer will usually go through a persons social profiles to see if they're just out partying all the time or if they're more into traveling. Obviously an employer won't want to hire the party animal you are when you leave your job since you could have poor work performance due to being hung over, calling off for pointless reasons like going to a concert but saying you're sick or wanting to leave early because you want to go "chill" with your friends. Employers typically want their employees to be professional and responsible people since that's what will be seen in the workplace. You wouldn't want to have a girl or guy coming in hung over and taking naps in the breakroom until it's lunch time, would you?
Reason 2: Keeping Your Name Safe
Keeping your name safe is a pretty easy thing to do if you do it right. You can post some positive information about yourself on your free blog or self hosted website, which is easier than you think. All you'd have to do is get some cheap hosting accounts, around $1 to $5 a piece, and start writing content on all of these websites and blogs like they're journals to the public. You can even set a few up as photo albums and write detailed descriptions on each photo so that you can easily rank for your name in the quickest amount of time possible. After you get a bunch of pages up and running with your name on them, you should see the top 10 search results getting flooded with positive content about yourself.
By doing this you are keeping your name safe and it's harder for someone else to run a negative PR campaign against you. People online like to troll and one of the easiest ways is to post something negative about you on a blog, but you're already combating that with all your other websites lol.
You'll need to do a little bit of SEO and Backlinking on these websites in order to solidify your top rankings, but that's not a difficult thing at all because you're already here on SEOclerks.com
Reason 3: Online Selling
If you want to get into selling online and seen as the top dog, you'll need to have your website ranked for your own name. If your website isn't ranked when someone types your name into Google, then they will have a difficult time finding you, especially if you have a tough name to type lol. I know a lot of online marketers who set up websites for their services just in case they become more popular. A few of them have had success with it while the others are still working, but they all have the websites ranked for their own names.
If you can brand your own name for something positive, you can sell an item a lot easier. Think of Martha Stewart, she was already famous but put her name on a line of towels and they became instant sellers. She has a well branded name and set up a company to sell house hold items and it blew up in a positive way. You can do something similar to this, but it will take a lot of time
In Conclusion:
You don't have to brand your name, but it's a good thing to think about since it's like another form of security. People can't register a domain name using your personal name and spread hate, which will fall back on you. You can get more jobs since employers will be able to find loads of positive information about you by just doing a basic search. And finally if you brand your name and get big enough, you can basically start any company you want and your cult like following will buy whatever you're selling
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Given the chance I would definitely brand my name. I couldn't agree more Razzy! Branding your name online is always a wise decision, I hear so many stories about people taking other's business names and using them to create a website to create problems for the original business owner. This then causes numerous problems for you as the business owner trying to clear your name. By branding your name you can then make things official and protect your name, will it fully protect you from people who want to cause trouble? Probably not but it will give you more security in the long run if anyone does decide to mess around and try to make your name look bad on the internet. People also like to know about the person whom they may be having dealings with as well as by branding your name as Razzy said you can post positive information about yourself and let people know about you and who you are. Given the chance I would definitely brand my name.
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