StepRep, Loopt, and other fun things (Updated ranks!)

Almost 2 weeks! Last time I checked in everything was getting a nasty hit in the natural search, though qualified search was doing better. A friend with some SEO experience told me that what probably happened was that Google initially ranked me and my sites well, then did a comparison to the other "Vincent Hayes"(s) and deemed me less relevant than a blues musician or artist (a fair assertion). The interesting part is the person who suddenly ranked well for Twitter, even though they only have one mention of my (probably our) name, and it's not even in his profile, nor does he update his Twitter account that often. Frequency of mine is at least once a day, especially since I've linked it to Loopt, which is on my iPhone. Annoyingly, Loopt does not have any way to access member profiles or update-data, so it's value as a content-distributer is fairly limited.
Anyways, new rankings!:

• 31 ( was 7) - LinkedIn Directory result
• 7 (was 8) - My actual LinkedIn page (with some cross-linking) continues to hold page 1
• Can't find (couldn't find at last update either) - Facebook continues to have completely disappeared, which is very odd - going to upload more photos soon (tonight?) and then upload those to Flickr as well, which hasn't ranked yet
• 19 & 119(10) - Twitter is all over the place (see previous posts), hard to determine what's driving relevancy here
• 56 & 109 (88) - This Blog! Moved up a bit, presuming regular content updates will help this
• 21 (new) - ClaimID, a good site, especially considering that it's pushed rankings very quickly
• 70 (new) -Naymz! Unfortunately it's a directory result, but I'm the only one on that site, so it's technically a direct link ;)

Some very frustrating results, looks as though Google's liking me less and less, though I'm glad for the top 10 ranking for my LinkedIn, which is arguably the most important anyways.

My boss @ work sent me the link for a online reputation management site called 'StepRep' which is actually pretty interesting. It lets you track your name or any particular query string that you want, though it limits it to five, and there is a "top stories" widget which will actually update content based on the results of the queries that you choose to promote. I'm still learning it, and will post the link to the profile (and cross-link it) as soon as I have a public profile via their site.

On a site note, I did find my myspace page, annoyingly tagged with my online gaming handle and worse, has a terrible picture of me. I linked it just for humor's sake. I haven't updated that page in forever, but it includes some more info about myself (and where I've been for the last couple of years). I don't think I'm going to update the page as it was basically my first foray into the online social media & networking arena, and I personally hated it. Facebook is much, much easier to set up and use.

Hey please check out the author's site of "Radically Transparent", a book I just finished reading - very interesting stuff regarding online reputation! More on this to come :)