While creating this blog, I couldn’t help but wonder what impact this would have on my name presence in search engines. Currently, my site www.blakeperdue.com ranks 1st on Google, 7th on Yahoo and somewhere in the ether on MSN for the keywords “Blake Perdue.” My LinkedIn profile, which I created less than a year ago, outranks my site on both Yahoo and MSN despite my site having been around for 8 or 9 years.

Perhaps it’s because my site has been mostly Flash in the past. Still, I include search engine friendly pages and tags to make sure they can read my site and determine what it contains. I think this blog will help boost my ranking on Yahoo and MSN, and to help it along I’ve peppered this blog with the keywords “Blake Perdue” — hence, the alt text on the nav saying “Blake Perdue blog archive”, etc. This should do the trick, but only time will tell.