Hi, Who?

I see it so many times when I want to leave comments on other websites.

I like to add that personal something by saying "Hi and the name of the person who owns the site," but there are allot of websites of people that already went through the training that still says admin.

Changing this gives your website a personal and trustworthy feel.

If you take yourself as someone who has to trust other websites. You don't know the people who are behind the article and if they are called admin, would you trust them?

How do you change it?

Take a look at this training from Course 2, lesson 8.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/building-...

It's quick and easy to do and when you do this, your site will have so much more personality.

If you wait too long before you do this, you will have to change allot of posts and pages, so rather do it before you write your next post.

Real name or pen name?

Even if you want to use a pen name, if is fine, it would sound better than admin.

When I started working online, I didn't want my real name all over the place, but in the end, I learned for personality and branding, it is better to use my personal name. And I'd have to open new social media accounts in someone else's name and what about the picture? Would I choose to be a cat, a lion or a dog?

I get it, sometimes we don't want to expose ourselves too much, but even Ramsay of Blog tyrant started using his own picture after a year (or two) and when he did, his followers tripled.

Facebook scams

While we're on the topic of who to be and just to show you how much this can bring distrust, do you know about the facebook scams going on all over (and I've seen it on Google+ too). I've heard about it and seen it myself. Luckily I'm always sceptical when someone contacts me.

The person who creates the profile adds a picture of some kind of army veteran with a name (Corporal ....-whoever).

They invite you to be a friend and as soon as you accept, you get a personal message from that person. They tell you that they are in "Afghanistan" (or somewhere) fighting for their country.

When you ask them about how it looks there or the weather, they ask you about your economic state to find out if you have allot of money.

If you give the impression that you don't have money, don't worry - they won't bother you anymore.

But if you give the impression that you are well off and making allot of money or working a full time job with a great pay - they will start telling you how bad it is going with them and if you wouldn't mind giving them some money, because they are fighting for their country after all. If you start giving small amounts, they will ask for more and so the cycle will continue. They will make allot of promises and in the end - they're not really who they say they are.

So, according to this story, do you think it will be to your advantage to stay an unknown?

What's your opinion?

Do you trust someone who wants to sell you something and you don't even know what they look like?

What is your opinion, real name or pen name?

What pictures should we use if we decide to use a pen name?

Keep moving forward

I wish you the best of luck in your online journey blessings in abundance!