Visibility in the WWW
It all started with one introspective question: How conspicuous am I in the World Wide Web? The fame-hungry devil in me wouldn't let me brush it off as just a silly thought, so I opened up my browser (of course, it's Firefox!) and searched for my full name. I somehow believed that my full name was a unique one, and nobody else (at least in the tech community) would have it. Lo & behold! The results were unexpectedly flattering! Google returned me around 200 results for my name.
Struck partly with awe & partly with curiosity, I quickly riffled through the results and found the secrets for "visibility".
1. Blogs: The more you blog, the more you're visible.
2. Personal Home Pages: A personal web page that has your name as part of the url could be the page that loads when you hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button on Google.
3. Forums: Register with as many forums as possible. Choosing a universal username for all of them and specifying the same first name & last name for every forum sure does help boost the "search results" figures. The figures also proportionally increase with the number of replies you get for your posts. Too good, eh?
Is it really as easy as it sounds to improve our visibility? I bet, it is! Try it and see for yourself! But, I'm not the one to blame if you've got a very common name! 
