Comments on: C’Mon Google, Women are Entities Whose Names Might Change!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 23:11:20 +0000

This is an invaluable article! I just completed my first seo course and this is a complication I hadn’t considered. It’s difficult enough to deal with it offline, so I’m thankful I’ve read your article in advance of potential online problems!

By: Justin Lewis

Justin Lewis — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 23:31:07 +0000

My girlfriend (of 7 years) and I have been in discussion about changing both of our last names to something of our own. It’s not always the women that are the only ones 😉 Also if we didn’t choose an entirely new unique last name, we would likely hyphen our last names together.
That’s a really tricky one for Google though, if a link is going to a page on the internet directed as “Joe Dirt” and the guy changed his name to “Joe Clean”.. that sounds like a huge task to change all of the “Joe Dirt” anchor texts to “Joe Clean” and also a huge task to be able to immediately understand that’s the direction they want to go.
Great article though 😀

By: Karina Porushkevich

Karina Porushkevich — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 16:37:10 +0000

Thank you for this insightful article post.
I think we can already see a significant number of career women and female executives dismissing taking on the married name because of the potential damage it might cause to their career (financially as well)
I would like to say from personal experience that there are a few ways of looking at this touchy subject ;
A couple of things to consider is the field which the career woman practices in and the level of her current online presence need to be factored in for the ability to weigh the positives and negatives realistically because if the career woman’s online presence is non-existent or weak then yea sure change the name , but big issue to think about is if the name change is going to cause a stir and/or interruption to the extremely popular online heavyweight career woman because she has a bunch of blogs , posts , articles, interviews on thousands of various blogs and web pages which will not appear anymore after the name change is complete .
Karina

By: Sunday

Sunday — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 14:25:53 +0000

I assume this could really be a big problem for many people who may decide to change their names for whatever reason. I wonder how Google is going to fix it.
All I can say is that for anyone who readily uses a particular name online, it is readily important to stick with the name as “pen name” or “business name”.
After all, a name change doesn’t change who you are in person but it could affect your SEO greatly. It is a decision to be made before hand.

By: James Bradrick

James Bradrick — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 02:09:46 +0000

I live in Mexico where the names of both parties remains unchanged after the wedding. Seems like a good idea to me. However I’m not given to a lot of romanticism and if you must call me cold hearted (or whatever) do what you will. It seems that culture lags just a bit behind technology and in this case whatever quick fix happens to work for the user is probably the best way to go. Hope I’ve offended no one.

By: Jack Giesen

Jack Giesen — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 01:23:37 +0000

In reply to Eric Enge. There's considerably less of a cultural push for men to change their names, though. As far as I know, it's an issue that affects women on a much greater scale.

By: Eric Enge

Eric Enge — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 21:29:46 +0000

In reply to Eric Enge. While I did not change the post title, I made several edits within to acknowledge that men face the name change issue too!

By: Eric Enge

Eric Enge — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 21:26:08 +0000

In reply to Fili Wiese. Fair enough! It does happen to men too. I will add a clarifying comment or two in the post!

By: Fili Wiese

Fili Wiese — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 21:08:50 +0000

This also applies to men. In a lot of countries when a couple gets married (no matter if this is a same sex or not), each person in the marriage (man or woman) can choose to either change their name or keep it the same or combine names. I agree it would be great if society and companies such as Facebook and Google can make their systems work better in this case. However it is, in my opinion, a bit shortsighted to just say this happens only to women.