Fast Way To Rank For Your Name
ByAs many as you know ranking for your name can really help your business grow. If you have a very unique and not often used last name it’s not that hard and if you have a rare first and a rare last name it’s even easier! However, some of us have first and last names that are so common that ranking in the top 10 can be ridicolous.
I personally rank between #1 and #2 consistently for Michael S Brown but have never ranked well for Michael Brown for a couple reasons. First, I have never tried or never really needed to. The second thing is that is was always extremely competitive and just didn’t bother with it. After all there are over 85,000,000 competing pages for Michael Brown.
However, now is a good time for anyone to start at least getting their name on the front page of Google with very little work.
Before I show you the easy steps to do this let me first tell you the importance of this. If you are doing anything that involves your name such as writing e-books, writing books, displaying yourself on video, public speaking or even running affiliate sites where you present people with your name this is important. When people hear about you or one of your sites or products they want to learn more about you. One of the best places for them to do this is Google itself.
Now you still might be thinking "What’s the point?" But, the point is that your name can be up there in case the look for you. When the person looking for you finds your site/profile listed in Google they will likely visit to learn more about you. On this page you’ll want to have some links to your sites, products and just over all more information about yourself.
You can see my profile here. (more info about me will be added later). You can also see my screen shot below that.
Now, let me show you below how you can take advantage of this and how you can make yours pop up on the first page…
Go to www.google.com/profiles and setup your own profile. Make sure to include as much information about yourself as possible (especially if you have a very common name). The more information you add the more it will help you show up on the first page.
Now believe it or not one of the biggest factors is simply adding a picture of yourself. I went from page 8 to page 1 in just a few minutes of adding a picture of myself. Also the same rules apply as normal ranking. Use your name a couple time in the body and you could optionally build links to your profile if you wanted to. Lastly
The best part is the ability to add links on the side bar and add links in the body of your profile. When people come learn more about you they can then find your rpdocucts or what your teaching, promoting etc. Cool eh? There are a lot of cool things you can do with your profile and I am sure I’ll update mine alot over time.
What are your thoughts? Are you using this yet? Questions or comments below.
Hello Michael,
I just wanted to let you know that I really appreciate what you are doing and your genuine drive to really help common folks is inspiring. After much research I purchased the “Nitche Bliztkrieg” a little over a month ago and I really believe it’s going to take me to places I only dreamed of previously. I also appreciate the follow up emails which led me to this site and your great advice on how to improve your sites.
I hope this feedback helps you as much as your feedback and knowledge has helped me. I’m still new at this and am waiting for my monthly paycheck to really get things going.
Mahalo and lots of Aloha from Hawaii!
Ben
I’m so glad I have a cool name like Kevin Riley. If I’d been named Michael Brown or John Mann, I’d have gone to get my name changed a long time ago.
Ben,
Thanks for the awesome feedback! Glad you’re in the course and enjoying it.
Man I should consider living in Hawaii myself! It makes me wonder what I am still doing in Ohio.
Thanks again for the feedback.
Riley,
I don’t know what’s worse seeing your mug on my blog or hearing that you actually think your name is cool.
The only thing that is cool about you is that you like hamsters.
wow! quick and easy….. I thought I would have a name that would never make page one, but surprise, there I was. I did add my middle initial. But even without it, I still ranked #1. Geez, always knew I should be there… Thanks for the info….. Tracey : )
Tracey,
No problem
Looks like you can do the same with facebook now too.. http://www.facebook.com/michaelbrown2
so i had to add the 2.
They just started this tonight… although someone stole mine
Hey Michael, just wanted to do ya a short comment on what your post is all about, name branding. Once people start seeing your name in their emails and on some forum postings or in the social networks like facebook or twitter, they get curious about who you are and google it.
If you want more exposure, you can actually do a few free blogger blogs or free wordpress blogs or squidoo or hub pages about yourself with your name as the primary keyword and get placed on page one with all of it.
The google profile is something I didn’t know about so thank you for the heads up on that Michael, I’ll get in there and get er done shortly.
Tom
[...] can’t take credit for this though. I read about it on Michael Browns blog [...]
Tom,
Your are 100% right. Your name mean something… even if it’s a common name. People want to know you and know who they are buying from, listening to or being entertained by.
Always good seeing you on here buddy
Internet Marketing really helps me boosts my product sales by 10%. I mainly use PPC advertising to use my products.
thanks again michail as i am a newbie just stsrting
out i find your advice on different things excellent
thanks again. phillip