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I'm doing it on 4 blogs and I'm really happy with the way I can get into all the search engines on almost any keyword I choose in around 18 hours and sometimes even less.
Yes, Google, Yahoo and all of them.
But how much longer will it be before the search engines start to provide blog filters?
Not long I suspect.
surname: 60,000 hits. Geneology sites 'till I show up on page six.
firstname surname: 12,100 hits, and I have seven on the first page, including WW posts.
firstname initial surname: 8,100 hits, 6 on first page are me.
"firstname initial surname": I own it. What a suprise, as not only is it pretty narrow, it's also very much the name I use in public. Anything shorter is for friends, or not used at all, which has the effect of optimizing a bit.
Interestingly, a page of mine with pretty much nothing on it but my name in the <title> and <h1> tags soundly beats the one with actual info on it. Apparently, there's no such thing as too much keyword density.
I looked for my real full name and at 300 I gave up. Turns out there is apparently a famous actress also with it and sites about her make up 80% of the first 300 results ;).