I've been looking at Spock for a while now, and now that it's in public beta, I can finally say what I think this is good for: (Personal) Search Engine Reputation Management! Just check out the search results for "Joost de Valk" and for "Onetomarket". My guess is the search pages will rank better for a person's name than the actual page about a person because of the URL, but who knows, check out my page.
Build a few links to that and I think it'll rank like a charm!
Hello Joost,
Because of this article I took a peak at Spock and signed up. Not knowing what it is for then as another social-network thing. You are looking at it for a while you wrote, so can you explain in short what is the benefit for you (and me) to have a profile there?
Also explain to me about the links you build there, because they have nofollow. You expect a couple of ctr there?
Thanks,
John Stevens
Nice website.
I signed up but still not listed in the search results.
How long does it take?
Also I think the grab a lot of informations from linkedin.
I also signed up some days ago. It took about a day before I received the invitation mail, but that could have been caused by all the attention around the official launch. Next it took another day before my name was listed in the search results. So it takes a little bit of patience before you can get started seriously.
@John: that profile for me will probably show up in the search results :)
Well Joost, in that case I beat you already... type my name and you will be shocked how well I'm represented in every search-engine including Spock? How come? I think John Stevens is as common as the Jan Jansen in the Netherlands.....
And you are right, the John Stevens you will find is probably not me :) So in that aspect I think its better to have a name like Joost de Valk, or Rand Fishkin :)
Hello,
This is Maia from Spock. Thanks for the write-up! I just wanted to clear up that we re-index our search results incrementally. The implication of this is that you won't be in the search results immediately after you create a profile. If you have any other questions, just let me know!
Hi Maia,
nice of you to drop by, and thx for answering the question :)
Cheers,
Joost
Well I'm monitoring the ranking and at this moment I'm afraid it is not ranked that good.
But I will give it another 2 months.
Hi Sander,
Re-indexing only places you within the search results. In order to rank higher, filling out your search result with pictures, links and tags will help. It also helps to have others vote on your search result.
Best,
Maia
Great, thanks for the top information.
One thing I also like to do is to optimize the page title. To do this I use freebie software that analyzes your page title and rates how effective it is:
http://www.aminstitute.com/headline/
I hope you or your readers find it useful?