Your new online professional profile!

RE: Your new online professional profile!

Arlo Guthrie — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:02:10 GMT

[quote userid="3169" url="~/001/nonclinical/f/life-in-practice-discussions/30187/your-new-online-professional-profile/235784#235784"]It's a pretty unique name. If you tried the same with Bob Russel or George Cooper I suspect it would take much longer![/quote]

Maybe, maybe not.

I mean sure if you just search 'george cooper'.

But VetSurgeon has a great deal of search engine visibility, so I expect 'firstname lastname vet' to rank highly for any name quite quickly.

But we shall see, and if I need to do further work to shoot them up the charts quicker, I will.

RE: Your new online professional profile!

Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:59:05 GMT

[quote userid="2100" url="~/001/nonclinical/f/life-in-practice-discussions/30187/your-new-online-professional-profile/235783#235783"]PPS Gosh, Just checked the search term "Alasdair Hotston Moore vet", which was only made public yesterday and already ranks on page one for that search term on Google.[/quote]

It's a pretty unique name. If you tried the same with Bob Russel or George Cooper I suspect it would take much longer!

RE: Your new online professional profile!

Arlo Guthrie — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:23:31 GMT

[quote userid="11493" url="~/001/nonclinical/f/life-in-practice-discussions/30187/your-new-online-professional-profile/235782#235782"]So... after you make your profile public. Would it be possible to have a 'View as' so you know how it looks like to visitors? Or alternatively, having your own url?[/quote]

You do have your own url, which is your username appended to a vetsurgeon url. In your case, thats: https://www.vetsurgeon.org/members/frangomezvet

(if anyone has set theirs to be something odd, like madasaboxoffrogs, you can ask me to change your username to a name, which would would probably help with SEO too).

And the way to see your public profile is just to copy the url on your profile page, logout and then go back to that url logged out (paste it into your browser).

I agree, a 'View as' would be nice (to show you what it looks like logged out without actually having to log out) but I am not sure it is technically possible. Also, I'd like to see whether people like this, as it may be expensive to add that functionality!

PS Francisco Gomez - I've just looked at your public profile and I think it looks great! And those links will help your raise the profile of your website / twitter feed.

I am watching now to see how quickly google picks up on these profiles. We may do some more SEO work on them in due course.

PPS Gosh, Just checked the search term "Alasdair Hotston Moore vet", which was only made public yesterday and already ranks on page one for that search term on Google.

Alasdair Hotston Moore - that was quicker than I was expecting

RE: Your new online professional profile!

Francisco Gomez — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:17:00 GMT

So... after you make your profile public. Would it be possible to have a 'View as' so you know how it looks like to visitors? Or alternatively, having your own url?

RE: Your new online professional profile!

Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:40:57 GMT

Thanks Francisco!

RE: Your new online professional profile!

Francisco Gomez — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:07:22 GMT

I'm looking forward to this. I will give it a try as soon as I get some spare time with my PC. Good effort, Arlo!

RE: Your new online professional profile!

Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:59:31 GMT

Here's another example, perhaps better because it is actually a vet!

https://www.vetsurgeon.org/members/alasdair

When viewed by anyone who is not logged in, only the most recent entry in the experience section is showed.