Domain Names

Some time ago I bought a domain name. Being in Real Estate I needed a web site. With the last name Chickering it was obvious that I should play off that. The domain name I bought was www.ChickSellsCherokee.com. (I live and work in Cherokee County Georgia). You are welcome to check it out...and I also have this blog connected to my site (left side-As I Look at 60).

Anyway, I built my web site, I thought it looked good, and I gripped and whined at the other two members of my team (Callie and Donna) to get me their bios and pictures so I could build their sites.(ok, ladies I still don't have them!) A day or so later I received an e-mail from Callie telling me I might want to rethink my domain name. She had googled with www.ChickSellsCherokee.com as her search term. My site came up first. The next nine sites on the page would not have been such a shock had I actually thought about the connotations of search terms like “Chick” and “Sells”. You guessed it...the rest of the sites listed were porn sites. Now isn’t that just what every real estate agent wants?

I promptly began a search of how to change the outcome. I discovered I-google. It is a truly wonderful group of apps. I went to I-google, set up an account using my g-mail address (though I understand you don’t have to have a g-mail account, you can use other email addresses). I completely filled out the profile including my picture. I set I-google as my home page and put apps of games, goals, a countdown tally and several other apps on the page.

Within 24 hours, “google-ing” my domain name brought up every page within my site, not just my home page, and no more porn!

For those with businesses having all your inside pages show up on google is a really good thing! If you have your own website I highly recommend doing what I have done. Several of the people at Keller Williams Canton have already tried it.

I also recommend I-google just as a fun homepage. The countdown app tells me it is 342 days until I am 60.