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Business Name Search Check

You search your own business name and the wrong company shows up

SEO & Websites·Intermediate

It is a bad feeling to type your own name into a search box and see a competitor, an old profile you forgot about, or nothing useful at all. You cannot fix that until you know exactly what a stranger sees, and guessing at it leads to spending money in the wrong place. This file gives you the searches to run, in a fixed order, on at least two search engines, and tells you to record only what is on the first page and whether you saw it with your own eyes or are assuming it. Then it walks you through eight kinds of public presence for that name, from your own site to each single episode, video, book or talk, and has you mark each one solid, partial or none. A seven point match check catches the cheap problems, like a different handle or a different one line description on each profile. It ends in an eight part report with ready made tables, including a closing statement that records what was checked live and on what date, so the document holds up when you hand it to a client.

What's Inside

About thirty name searches grouped into four sets, run on at least two search engines with only the first page recorded

Eight kinds of public presence to check for the name, each marked solid, partial or none

A seven point match check for name, handle, logo, one line description, link, category and location

A pick list that cuts the eight checks down to the four that matter for a local business, a show, a product or a person

An eight part report layout with ready made tables for searches, gaps, published work and fixes

A closing statement that records what you checked live, on what date, and what you only assumed

Eight rules on what not to do, starting with never building fake profiles to create mentions

A nine item input list to gather first, including other spellings and the names you get mixed up with

A separate check on every single episode, video, book, app or recorded talk, not just the channel

A written list of what this cannot tell you, including how any search engine ranks or sorts anything

Best For

Freelancers who get asked to look at a client's search results and need a findings document instead of a hunchLocal business owners whose name brings up a competitor, an old listing, or nothing usefulPodcast, show and video makers who want to know if their episodes can be found one by oneAnyone launching a book, app or product who wants to see what a searcher sees today before spending moneySmall shops and studios that share a name with another business and need to see how mixed up the results areAnyone who keeps a public profile under their own name and wants it to say the same thing everywhere

Before you buy

This only works if the assistant you use can actually search the web. If it cannot, you run the roughly thirty searches yourself by hand on two search engines and paste what you saw into the template, and the file says to expect a few hours per name. Nothing here needs a paid subscription or a paid data tool, but the file does not fix anything for you: it tells you what is missing and in what order to deal with it, and the building is separate work.

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How it works

1Purchase → instant .md download
2Open Claude → go to Projects
3Upload the .md file to your project
4Claude has it loaded for good. In ChatGPT or Gemini, paste it in

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