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The Google + Identity Dump; How to Connect? WARNING; There's a problem with your Google+ profile - DrDon YatesSrPhD. What is the problem, well according to Google +, my established Identity does not conform to their name rules! To quote “Google+ makes connecting with people on the web more like connecting with people in the real world. Because of this, it's important to use your common name so that the people you want to connect with can find you.”

Certainly we can agree that Google is by far the biggest name and business directory in the world. As such, what is the problem with being specific?

Business

Finding and Connecting with a business by its name online is easy because they have a fairly unique identity and are often trademarked.

Even then, a search for McDonald (no ‘s’) online produces 227,000,000 results; whereas MacDonalds give us 168,000,000. Zeroing in further ie. MacDonalds -Los Angeles gives us 51,100,000, but MacDonald's Los Angeles Disneyland reduces your results to 9,090,000. Obviously, the more specific your search, the easier it is to find what you are looking for!

How about you?

Google + and Facebook, both Use your common first and last name.

By using your common name, you'll be able to connect with people you know and help them find you. Indications of membership in professional, educational, societal or religious entities, such as "Dr", "Rev" or "Professor" are not allowed in the first or last name fields.

Violation examples: Doctor Stan Livingston, Bill Smithwick MSc, Rev Jim Copley, S. P.

According to Google +, most people use their legal name, or some variant of it, in the real world. We recognise that this isn't always the case, and allow for other common names in Google+. Your common name is the name that your friends, family or colleagues usually call you. For example, if your legal name is Charles Jones Jr. but you normally use Chuck Jones or Junior Jones, either of these would be acceptable.

So Google + wants people we know to be able to find and connect with us. In the real world, to use Googles + terms, we are known to our friends and family by one or two common names. However others know us and communicate with us as Doctor Stan Livingston, Bill Smithwick MSc, Rev Jim Copley, S. P. Jim Copley



Forget about using our war hero’s rank, General, Master Sargent and such, forget about banding yourself, forget about your true, real world identity.

Using their example; let us search and try to connect with:

• Doctor Stan Livingston, we get About 11,000,000 results, which one is the one we are looking for, perhaps it is the first one on the list. About 4,700,000 results
• Bill Smithwick MSc, we get 98,900 including the reference to the Google +name policy, Bill Smithwick About 349,000 results
  
  
• Rev Jim Copley, S. P, we get 130,000 and the top ranked site are related to Google + policy, Jim Copley, About 2,150,000 results
  
  

A search for Charles Jones Jr produces results of 482,000,000 results; wow even more than MacDonalds! Just by adding the initial L, your search is reduced to 15,000,000. So why, if connectivity is really Google + and our goal, improve our chances of connectivity by allowing the use of first, last and middle initials.

• But when we added the middle name Larry or Charles Larry Jones Jr, results were 71,600,000. Without the Jr, results were 14,900,000. Chuck Jones 49,900,000 or Junior Jones 194,000,000
• To weed these out and narrow our search, we need a school or a location. Charles L Jones Jr – New York produced results of 3,870,000, better, but still a big sample. How about Dr Charles L Jones Jr – no help, results 9,680,000, but Rev Dr Charles L Jones Jr reduced our search to 2,610,000
• Still too much to work with, let us try Rev Dr Charles L Jones Jr – Baptist Church and our odds of connecting are much better with only 1,010,000 results.

The more we know about the person, the better our odds of connecting. Isn’t that our objective, to search find and connect? How to find our Charles Jones Jr out of 428,000,000? Of course friends and family and even classmate searches should be easier, we can focus our search because we know more about the person.

But how about a search for our former military friends; these friends can come from anywhere in the country, and all we may only know them by Name.

I have tried, but never located my friend by name including his Initial.

• If he had identified himself by name and rank or former rank, I would have better odds finding and connecting with each other.
• If his Google + or Facebook profile had shown his prior military service, we have a better chance.

Again, is it easy to see that Google is by far the biggest name and business directory in the world, so what is the problem with being specific? Because it doesn’t conform to their name rules! What is wrong with their rules?

Let Us Use Google Search for Some Name Recognition

• Tony Robbins, About 4,120,000 results, in 374,126 Google+ circles (wow)

• Norman Vincent Peale, About 1,310,000 results, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was a minister and author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking)
• Dale Carnegie, About 5,160,000 results. For 94 years, business professionals have turned to Dale Carnegie's powerful books and winning interactive seminars to help them reach new levels
• How about Stephen R Covey, About 2,650,000 results, but Dr Steven R Covey, provided About 822,000 citing
• Or Evan Carmichael, About 1,270,000 results, Over 14 Million Entrepreneurs Helped and Counting! - Motivation and Strategies for Entrepreneurs - EvanCarmichael.com.

Two of the above were before Facebook, Google + and such so we would expect lower search results. However, in all cases, their names are well recognized in today’s world, with or without their added credentials

How About the Rest Of Us:

• Unless we are movie star, a singer, a sport figure, politician, and such how are we going to be found?
• How about President Reagan or Former-President Reagan, How about Governor, or Former-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger – Or more specifically Former California -Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
• What happens to The Rock, how many know his first name is Dwayne?

Branding and Credentials: OUR UNIQUE IDENTIFIER

• In the real wold, on or offline, people that do know us; know by OUR UNIQUE IDENTIFIER, our brand, our credentials

We brand ourselves to improve our SEARCHABILITY and to increase our chances of being found for CONNECTABILTY.

So What Is My Gripe?

In the real world, for over 33 years, I have been commonly known offline as Dr Don, Dr Yates, or by my full UNIQUE IDENTIFIER, Dr Don Yates Sr PhD. This includes all of my business dealings, the local newspapers, my participation the community, my children’s sports coaching, my social and business gatherings, the Opera, Fraternity and others.

Online, my email accounts are all drdony, my social networking know me Dr Don, Dr Yates, Doc Yates and even Don among my closer friends and connections. My many online businesses all know me as drdony, drdony1 or Dr Don Yates Sr PhD. I am easy to find and to connect with – Isn’t that my and Google + objective??

Until now my Facebook and Google + accounts show me as drdon yatessrphd, because neither permits spaces such as Dr Don! Facebook accepts my user name drdony1

If you are looking to connect with me, can you find me?

Easy, yes! drdon yatessrphd, about 3,450 results. Happy, happy, happy!

Dr Don Yates Sr PhD, About 1,040,000 results, still happy, happy, happy because I am well branded online

BUT!

Here is what Google + has to say about my suspension

Google+ Page and Profile Names

• Google+ makes connecting with people on the web more like connecting with people in the real world. Because of this, it's important to use your common name so that the people you want to connect with can find you. Your common name is the name that your friends, family or colleagues usually call you. For example, if your legal name is Charles Jones Jr. but you normally use Chuck Jones or Junior Jones, either of these would be acceptable.
• If you're unable to complete the Google+ sign-up flow, or if your profile has been or could be suspended for a name-related issue, review our guidelines below. If your profile name has already been saved and we find that your name doesn't adhere to our Names Policy, you'll have a four day grace period to change your name or appeal against our finding before we take further action.
• Google+ Profile Suspension and Other Google Services
  
  If your profile has been suspended, you will not be able to make full use of Google services that require an active profile such as Google+, Reader and Picasa. This will not prevent you from using other Google services, such as Gmail. Your profile can be restored by editing your name and submitting an appeal that will be reviewed by our team, as directed by on-screen instructions.

If You Don’t Like It; Here What They Say

• We understand that your identity on Google+ is important to you and our Name Policy may not be for everyone at this time. We'd hate to see you go, but if you choose to leave make a copy of your Google+ data first. Then click here to leave Google+.
• Google+ makes connecting with people on the web more like connecting with people in the real world. Because of this, it's important to use your common name so that the people you want to connect with can find you”

Let us look closer at the numbers:

• Donald Yates (name given at birth) About 9,600,000 results
• Donald Yates profiles | LinkedIn, www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Donald/Yates View the profiles of professionals named Donald Yates on LinkedIn. There are 25 professionals named Donald Yates, who use LinkedIn to exchange
• Donald Yates Sr (United States Passport and assumed name after birth of my son, 52 years ago), About 4,670,000 results
• Don Yates, About 23,500,000 results
• Don Yates Sr, About 4,030,000 results not all mine of course
• Don Yates Sr PhD, About 1,040,000 results
• drdony, About 25,000 results
• and Drdon Yatessrphd, about 3,450 results, all mine. Happy, happy, happy!

Solution

Get on board Google +, the real world for online business persons is about OUR UNIQUE IDENTIFIER, our brand, our credentials. The results speak for themselves



It is our true identity

Certainly we can agree that Google is by far the biggest name and business directory in the world. As such, what is the problem with being specific?

Dr Don Yate Sr PhD, come look me up, let us connect

Thanks for reading

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