Dominate Search For Your Name

How to Dominate the Search Results for Your Name

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If you go to your favorite search engine or choice and type in your personal name what are you going to find?

Hopefully a ton of results for YOU and all of your online properties. Of course this might be easier said than done depending on what your name is. If you have the same name as a celebrity or other well known figure it might not be so easy, but you still want to rank for your name searches as much as you can. One of the best ways to rank for your name this is through the use of social profile pages.

Dominate Search For Your NameClaim Your Name On Social Networks

Most of us are already on sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, but there are plenty of other well ranking social profiles and resume pages out there that can really accelerate the process.

Here is a list of sites you should currently have profile pages with.

The thing about all of these sites is that they are already extremely established and it won't take much for them to rank well, especially if you put in the time and effort to add quality content to your profile and bio sections.
Another excellent way to make sure you social profiles rank well is to link them to each other and continually link back to them from your other web sites and blogs.

While we're talking about social profiles, we might as well cover a few tips for making your's stand out from the crowd.

  • Twitter updated their header photos but many people haven't taken the time to update these images. Find or create some great high quality images and make your Twitter page look that much better.
  • Completed.com is a resume site that allows you to add a lot more than just your contact info to the site. You can see my personal profile here and all of the different information you can add to their site. Their system is also very SEO friendly and they want your pages to rank well.
  • LinkedIn is quickly becoming more than just your average “job/resume” site as well. You can now add images, media, link your blog feeds and much more. Make sure your profile is updated with your latest information and content that people can find value in.

Find out how to use Knowem to claim your user name on hundreds of networks at once.

When it comes to ranking on the first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing, this is something you definitely want to take care of. Improve your chances of ranking and growing your social following by grabbing your name on as many social networking sites as possible. Imagine how impossible this will be for people in 5-10 years!

19 thoughts on “How to Dominate the Search Results for Your Name”

  1. Prakash

    This was excellent breakdown. Has anyone heard anything about the ability to have your business name in your g+ url, like Facebook does?

  2. Tekkaus

    I do see the needs to “Authorize” ourselves. So like what you have mentioned we should “claim” ourselves before other impostors took our identity!

    Thanks for the list. There are a few that I have yet to sign up. 🙂

  3. Reaz

    Hello Zac Johnson,

    I’m really enjoyed by reading this post too much. I already have about me page. I will connect you now.. @Ileane Smith

    Simply Thanks for your post.

    Regards,
    Mohammad Reaz

  4. Anirudh

    When I was young, this is was my main aim. I wanted my face to appear in the search of my name. After I created the blog, it happened. Now, will even Improve it! Cheers Zac! 🙂

  5. Ankit Bansal

    That was a excellent post. Social Media has grown too much to ignore your growth without keeping social media in mind. If we want to grow our community social media is the best place to build relationships.

  6. Mi Muba

    Once Shakespear rightly said that what lies in name but in internet marketing everything lies in name; your image, your brand, your credibility, your reputation and your prowess all these features actually lie in your name once you become famous as internet marketer

  7. Terungwa

    Zac, as always, your tips make a huge lot of sense. I’ll only add that you could create an entry on Wikipedia for yourself. That way, you’ll surely get faster results!

  8. Disha

    hahahaha wow… The ultimate thing is Image Ileane’s image 🙂 it’s lovely image. It’s perfect match Image.

  9. Gaurav

    thanks for sharing such a beautiful information. it feels good if search engines showing our own social pages if we are searching our name on them. very useful tips to get our own pages as results with searching our name.

  10. Rohan Mod

    exactly i saw ana hoffman name on facebook page of her website named as trafficgenerationcafe. Your trick really works it gave her blog immense exposure.

  11. Karen Woodham

    I always went with my website name for a lot of my sociel networks and other places, but my About.Me account is my name and I do get a lot of people coming to my Twitter, Facebook and website etc saying “Found your profile on About.Me” so that’s good enough for me to show it works.

  12. Ti Roberts

    Awesome, post, Zac. I’m glad that Ileane shared it with us.

    This is something that I’ve let naturally happen over the past year. I have most all of spots for my name on the first page of Google. It’s a mixture of my own blog, my social media sites and interviews I’ve done on other blogs, which is great for social proof. 🙂

  13. PrIyAnGsHu

    Hi Zac, yet another great post. It’s really important to dominate the SERPs for our names, so as to build a reputation of ourselves and our existence as an online entrepreneur. I agree that, the first step to make that happen is to create social profiles with our names, and promote our brand and ourselves as entities. Once again, thanks for this great article Zac, thumbs up!

  15. Lalitha

    This was an excellent breakdown. Has anyone heard anything about the ability to have your business name in your g+ url, like Facebook does?

  16. Hazel L Cottrell

    I am currently all over Google for my name with various social media sites – I’m just waiting to get bigger for my creative content writing side of the business as well as my name 🙂

    Great Tips though, thanks very much.

  17. Siddharth Sharma

    Hi…. @Ileane Mam and @Zac Sir.

    Awesome Article !!
    you are right , this process is very helful to Every bloggers .

    This is My Visit on this Blog , I’m Feeling Lucky Bcoz finally i reached on your Great Blog .

    Thanks @Zac sir to tell this awesome tips with us. 🙂

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