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My second niche is so far off my personality and the topic of first site that I hesitate to put my real name against it. We all know that G+ and Authorship is the way forward th

Hi Boffy,

Great question.

Personally, I think a pseudonym is absolutely okay to use and there are numerous reasons why you may wish to do so from conflict of interest to just wishing to keep your identity private.

with regards to social media etc, just think of all the authors, artists, actors etc who go by pseudos and also make full use of the internet for marketing and engagement.

It is a totally legit venture, so...go for it!

Blessings Be,

- Rich

Thanks Rich, I really appreciate your input here.

The use of pseudonym is valid and acceptable. You only have to balance your reason for doing it. It could be purely personal reasons when an individual feels the context and content of the exchange offer no reason, legal or otherwise, to provide their given or legal name. Use of pseudonym can also draw a more positive or less negative reaction from customers.

I started out in the relationship niche and setup a pseudonym name along with all the social accounts to go with it. I also had my personal accounts building and working on my fishing niche and I started to find a lot of trouble keeping everything flowing in the correct accounts. I eventually dropped the relationship niche as I was not experienced enough in AM to make it work but I now use my real name in all I do.

Great question Graham, and one that I am pondering right now too. I would like more comment on the pros and cons. Creating the new social identities makes it less appealing for sure. Since I don't have any of that set up yet, now would be the ideal time - starting out. (I'm only on lesson 2.2). I'm thinking maybe one candid photo, probably subtlety altered, in a branded identification that I can use for everything going forward. Hmmmm...

I guess that naturally leads me to the question if the About Me is altered as well. My natural instinct is that authenticity is paramount.

You absolutely can. If you look at some of the most famous actors, some of the most famous athletes and of course some of the most famous authors, they have all used pseudonym.

There is nothing wrong with it if you have good intentions and you want to build a brand through helping people and working to become an expert. It is actually quite commonplace online and whether you use your own name or a pen, you will be fine Graham.

Great post - something I've thought a lot about recently. Why, well Advan Start isn't my name, but that was the name I wanted to setup my account as. Then I thought it would be confusing for people if I used either my real name at the end of a post. Once I setup my first site I didn't want to use my real name for a number of reasons. But in reflection I suppose it ultimately came down to feeling that if I shared it with my friends and family they would judge that and question if it was my place to share these stories. Anyway - here I still use Advan to be consistent, on my site I use JSC - an transliteration acronym of my real name. The content and about me is still true etc, so you could suppose these are just pen names. I don't have an issue with this, at the end of the day it's still my words and story.
The key issue I have now is managing the alter egos, especially on the social media. But I'm sure someone smarter than me will easily figure out that these identities are all connected. So where do I end up - at some point I'll set up a site with my real name because I think business will require it. But I'll leave the account here as is, and at some point outline the difference between my account name and real name on my profile.
Hope this helps you make a balanced choice.
Thanks for letting me unload on your blog and deal with this question and stop avoiding it.
Now just push "add comment"...

Hey Graham,

Hiding behind a false name is really not a good idea and why would you even think doing this?

Rule of thumb, I never promote something that does not meet my high ethical standards. If what you want to promote meets yours, then use your real name and be proud, if not, then don't promote.

Hi - maybe it's because I'm a dad, and I want complete transparency online to help protect kids, but I personally put my name to everything I do - I'm proud of it all.

However you do see a lot of people using made up names, or nicknames - I'm sure they have their reasons.

If this is just a niche that you're not sure you want to be associated with it yet - use a made up name - you can always post updates/pages as yourself later on, if you want to.

Cheers, Mark

No you don't need to I have sites in the infertility niche, candy crush and iPhone they have nothing to do with each other

No one cares about your expertise in your niche they just want value form your sites and for your sites to solve their problems
Do you think Amazon has some expert sitting in an office on every product they sell
Most affiliate sites are not made my subject matter experts they are made by markers
If your site solves their problems they don't care about what you are about
If you use the same identity on every site you will get trust, if you use a false name you are lying to them and here you are talking about trust how can you claim trust if you put a false name on your site it sort of smacks of madness don't you think



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Should i use a pseudonym?

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My second niche is so far off my personality and the topic of first site that I hesitate to put my real name against it. We all know that G+ and Authorship is the way forward th

Hi Boffy,

Great question.

Personally, I think a pseudonym is absolutely okay to use and there are numerous reasons why you may wish to do so from conflict of interest to just wishing to keep your identity private.

with regards to social media etc, just think of all the authors, artists, actors etc who go by pseudos and also make full use of the internet for marketing and engagement.

It is a totally legit venture, so...go for it!

Blessings Be,

- Rich

Thanks Rich, I really appreciate your input here.

The use of pseudonym is valid and acceptable. You only have to balance your reason for doing it. It could be purely personal reasons when an individual feels the context and content of the exchange offer no reason, legal or otherwise, to provide their given or legal name. Use of pseudonym can also draw a more positive or less negative reaction from customers.

I started out in the relationship niche and setup a pseudonym name along with all the social accounts to go with it. I also had my personal accounts building and working on my fishing niche and I started to find a lot of trouble keeping everything flowing in the correct accounts. I eventually dropped the relationship niche as I was not experienced enough in AM to make it work but I now use my real name in all I do.

Great question Graham, and one that I am pondering right now too. I would like more comment on the pros and cons. Creating the new social identities makes it less appealing for sure. Since I don't have any of that set up yet, now would be the ideal time - starting out. (I'm only on lesson 2.2). I'm thinking maybe one candid photo, probably subtlety altered, in a branded identification that I can use for everything going forward. Hmmmm...

I guess that naturally leads me to the question if the About Me is altered as well. My natural instinct is that authenticity is paramount.

You absolutely can. If you look at some of the most famous actors, some of the most famous athletes and of course some of the most famous authors, they have all used pseudonym.

There is nothing wrong with it if you have good intentions and you want to build a brand through helping people and working to become an expert. It is actually quite commonplace online and whether you use your own name or a pen, you will be fine Graham.

Great post - something I've thought a lot about recently. Why, well Advan Start isn't my name, but that was the name I wanted to setup my account as. Then I thought it would be confusing for people if I used either my real name at the end of a post. Once I setup my first site I didn't want to use my real name for a number of reasons. But in reflection I suppose it ultimately came down to feeling that if I shared it with my friends and family they would judge that and question if it was my place to share these stories. Anyway - here I still use Advan to be consistent, on my site I use JSC - an transliteration acronym of my real name. The content and about me is still true etc, so you could suppose these are just pen names. I don't have an issue with this, at the end of the day it's still my words and story.
The key issue I have now is managing the alter egos, especially on the social media. But I'm sure someone smarter than me will easily figure out that these identities are all connected. So where do I end up - at some point I'll set up a site with my real name because I think business will require it. But I'll leave the account here as is, and at some point outline the difference between my account name and real name on my profile.
Hope this helps you make a balanced choice.
Thanks for letting me unload on your blog and deal with this question and stop avoiding it.
Now just push "add comment"...

Hey Graham,

Hiding behind a false name is really not a good idea and why would you even think doing this?

Rule of thumb, I never promote something that does not meet my high ethical standards. If what you want to promote meets yours, then use your real name and be proud, if not, then don't promote.

Hi - maybe it's because I'm a dad, and I want complete transparency online to help protect kids, but I personally put my name to everything I do - I'm proud of it all.

However you do see a lot of people using made up names, or nicknames - I'm sure they have their reasons.

If this is just a niche that you're not sure you want to be associated with it yet - use a made up name - you can always post updates/pages as yourself later on, if you want to.

Cheers, Mark

No you don't need to I have sites in the infertility niche, candy crush and iPhone they have nothing to do with each other

No one cares about your expertise in your niche they just want value form your sites and for your sites to solve their problems
Do you think Amazon has some expert sitting in an office on every product they sell
Most affiliate sites are not made my subject matter experts they are made by markers
If your site solves their problems they don't care about what you are about
If you use the same identity on every site you will get trust, if you use a false name you are lying to them and here you are talking about trust how can you claim trust if you put a false name on your site it sort of smacks of madness don't you think



Barry

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My main niche site is for book reviews that specialise on programming. As a hobbyist it seemed ideal but over time I've realised it takes me quite a while just to get 1 post on

Thanks for sharing all your experiences, this info is very usful, I am going to bookmark it for the moment I might need it.

I would agree with what you are planning to do from a writing review structure goes.

This is an excellent niche. I wish I could send you some of my books specific to your topic. It would add up to much more than 40. I would use CurationSoft (I am not an affiliate of this product) to get a feel for what information is out there in a variety of places, ie. Google blog, Google news, amazon, etc. I am going to be using this product to gather recent information on my keywords. I don't believe in plagiarism but I do believe in gathering current information to use for what i am writing about.

Thanks, I've got a bookmark of other similar sites - there's only 1 other site that is 'competition' as such and even then he only lists the books and doesn't review them.

I'll take a look at that software, that's something I could do with just to get a headstart

For anyone who wonders, I don't outsource this - For each post I:

-Read the book which can take a minimum of 3-5 hours.
-From there I complete the programming aspects, this usually involves finding print problems, out of date code or typos. All errors get reported to the Publisher for their errata.
-Begin writing a post, compare this book to previous ones and alternatives on the market
-Polish the application created, screen capture it, add audio and presentation for the YouTube video.
-Publish review.

Now I haven't done more than 3 reviews, this is down to time and procrastination. But this is the main thing holding me back, until then I have placeholder text from Amazon (duplicated content, I know!).

On the plus side, there are only 40 books at the moment and I know once I'm up to date the odd review won't put any pressure on me. It just seems like a long way to go at the moment.

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My main niche site is for book reviews that specialise on programming. As a hobbyist it seemed ideal but over time I've realised it takes me quite a while just to get 1 post on

Thanks for sharing all your experiences, this info is very usful, I am going to bookmark it for the moment I might need it.

I would agree with what you are planning to do from a writing review structure goes.

This is an excellent niche. I wish I could send you some of my books specific to your topic. It would add up to much more than 40. I would use CurationSoft (I am not an affiliate of this product) to get a feel for what information is out there in a variety of places, ie. Google blog, Google news, amazon, etc. I am going to be using this product to gather recent information on my keywords. I don't believe in plagiarism but I do believe in gathering current information to use for what i am writing about.

Thanks, I've got a bookmark of other similar sites - there's only 1 other site that is 'competition' as such and even then he only lists the books and doesn't review them.

I'll take a look at that software, that's something I could do with just to get a headstart

For anyone who wonders, I don't outsource this - For each post I:

-Read the book which can take a minimum of 3-5 hours.
-From there I complete the programming aspects, this usually involves finding print problems, out of date code or typos. All errors get reported to the Publisher for their errata.
-Begin writing a post, compare this book to previous ones and alternatives on the market
-Polish the application created, screen capture it, add audio and presentation for the YouTube video.
-Publish review.

Now I haven't done more than 3 reviews, this is down to time and procrastination. But this is the main thing holding me back, until then I have placeholder text from Amazon (duplicated content, I know!).

On the plus side, there are only 40 books at the moment and I know once I'm up to date the odd review won't put any pressure on me. It just seems like a long way to go at the moment.

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