How To Measure Your Online Influence Or Google Quotient
If you don’t show up in Google, you don’t exist
You can expect to be googled by recruiters, business partners, even dates and social media friends. So knowing what Google says about you and proactively managing your personal brand online is critical.
83% of recruiters use search engines to learn about candidates and 43% of recruiters admit to eliminating candidates based on information they found online.- ExecuNet Study, 2007
Accenture recently did a study to identify the world’s 50 most influential leaders, and one of the top criteria they used was those influencers’ Google quotient.
Read the Top 50 Business Intellectuals Pdf here
This Online ID Calculator, is the first and leading tool that will help you make sense of your Google results and give you advice on how to build a stellar online identity that’s aligned with your real-world personal brand.
The calculator was created to help professionals assess their online identity by William Arruda and Kirsten Dixson, authors of Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand
(Wiley, June 2007). William is known as the personal branding guru and Kirsten is a leading authority on using the Web to advance your career.
The calculator calculates your google quotient based on results when your name is googled and few more metrics.
Try the tool and lemme know how you find it through comments below. And stay tuned to my next post about “Tips to improving your google presence / google quotient”.
Good luck n Smiles,
ShriNagesh
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Thanks ShriNagesh for a nice post. I always use Google to find more about authors who are blogging in the same niche.
Hi ShriNagesh.
Thanks for sharing. Google is a great source for a lot of informations, but have been spammed with so many adsense/affiliate/e-commence sites, so you can’t find the best informations.
/James Smith
Hi James,
I agree. Dms have been getting on to my nerves of late. i’ve even stopped checking them frequently. N of course I do have a hitch that i might miss something imp.
If u googled for info on deleting twitter dms, u r bound to land here, as this post ranks 1 for the term on google.
Hope u’l find the post useful
shri
nice post
always learning something new…
Hi Nagesh,
Thanks for sharing this interesting article. I really liked the online identity calculator..
Love that online ID calculator, that’s an excellent tool to see where you stand!
I bookmarked this already dude great work
Regards
Vinki
I agree. Dms have been getting on to my nerves of late. i’ve even stopped checking them frequently. N of course I do have a hitch that i might miss something imp