My name on Amazon.com slurps my web site!

Amazon's PR is higher than mine. Does that mean it bumps my own name?

[shanx24]

My website is ranked no.1 for keywords that relate to my name.

Only today, I noticed that for my full name (with or withhout quotes) the no.1 result is my little page at Amazon.com -- this is a page listing my reviews for items on their website. The second search result of course is my own website, as usual, with a "sub-result" of the page pointing to Amazon.com website.

My question -- since I am not an "item" or a product name and just represent a reviewer (which means my name is mentioned ONLY ONCE on their page) shouldn't it get at least a little less preference than my own website?! I am pretty sure no one links to my page at amazon...does the number of incoming links to amazon IN GENERAL affect its PR?

I've written to google support but not heard back since a week. Just wondering if someone can offer any ideas.

thanks!

[WebGuerrilla]

For obscure terms, PR trumps all.

[shanx24]

so basically there is nothing i can do? will writing to google support be any use?

[Chris_R]

No - google doesn't manually adjust your ranking.

I don't mean to offend, but do you think there are many people out their searching for your name?

The amazon page is YOURS - isn't it?

You could [I am guessing Amazon will let you do this] change your name or delete your page. That would work. If people really want to find your page by your name - #2/3 isn't that bad.

[rfgdxm1]

>For obscure terms, PR trumps all.

Isn't this backwards? For common terms, yes. Give me an obscure term, and likely I can beat amazon.com using good on page content, and backlinks with that in the anchor text.

[craig1972]

rfdxm, thanks for posting. there is hope for me yet! :)

can u give me some ideas of what u'd do in this case? what is "backlinking"?

thanks!

[rfgdxm1]

Put your name on a page in title, H1 tag, and with solid keyword density. Anchor text in backlinks is having your name appearing in the anchor text of sites linking to this page.

[craig1972]

anchor text as in this? --

<a title="MYDOMAIN.COM" title="mydomain.com">MYDOMAIN</a>

or this --

<a id="MYDOMAIN.COM">MYDOMAIN</a>

also, if i make a H1 thingie on my website with my name in it, but then hide this h1 inside a DIV with display:none, would that affect my ranking? my question is, does google care if a DIV is hidden (because i dont want to show my name in bold on my website!)

thanks for any thoughts.

[Morgan]

I bet the easiest thing to do would be this--

On your site, make a page with your name as the title, and an <h1>about your name</h1>. Don't try to disguise it, bad idea. Then link to this page from within your site using a link like <a href="about-your-name.htm">about your name</a>.

That should do it. And if you're so keen on being the highest result for your name, it makes sense to make a page on yourself.

[craig1972]

QUOTE: "And if you're so keen on being the highest result for your name, it makes sense to make a page on yourself."

thats funny :) sounds good, will try this.

thanks!

[PatrickDeese]

also, if i make a H1 thingie on my website with my name in it, but then hide this h1 inside a DIV with display:none, would that affect my ranking? my question is, does google care if a DIV is hidden (because i dont want to show my name in bold on my website!)

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