A week ago I realized that no searches for Connie Benson are hitting my blog. I see that there are 3-4 searches each day for my name. And tonite I see that just Connie is catching Google’s attention too.

Last week when I pondered this problem on Twitter I had to back up & explain what I was talking about. So here goes:

My husband’s family went with the Danish spelling for Bensen rather than the Scandinavian spelling of Benson. My maiden name was four letters & the name of a farm in Norway. My forefathers knew better than to keep the name of Johnson which is what it was when they came to this land.

As a result of the Danish spelling, many people misspell our last name. It doesn’t bother me & if people link to my blog it really doesn’t matter. In thinking about branding I had to consider all the ways to make it easy to find me. And I realized that maybe people would try the URL www.conniebenson.com so I bought it. I had my sister do a redirect and I thought that all was fine.

But last weekend I realized that Googling for Connie Benson brought up nothing. So I asked on Twitter. By the power of Twitter, four friends responded immediately. Each had their own ideas. One idea was to put in a place holder post like this. So I’m doing that. Another friend wrote a script for WordPress. And another had more advice. Aren’t online friends just THE best?!!

Do any of you SEO gurus have any additional ideas?