Have a unique name and commit a crime that makes the news.
Probably not the kind of advice you're looking for. You should define the scope better. ;)
Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?
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#33Since we're in the SEO land let me ask a relevant question. Say I have an e-commerce site. If I buy an expired domain from some other e-commerce site which was in the same market as mine can I have any benefit whatsoever?
Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?
#34Since we're in the SEO land let me ask a relevant question. Say I have an e-commerce site. If I buy an expired domain from some other e-commerce site which was in the same market as mine can I have any benefit whatsoever?
I thought Google looked to see if domain entries have changed and if so took that into account and counted against the prior ranking score.
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#35Does Google still prefer .com TLD over others? I moved from it to a country-based TLD and have similar problems with indexing now.
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#36Since we're in the SEO land let me ask a relevant question. Say I have an e-commerce site. If I buy an expired domain from some other e-commerce site which was in the same market as mine can I have any benefit whatsoever?
Yes. This is now a common white hat tactic. That instead of paying someone to try and build links for you (blindly email a bunch of sites and ask for links). You purchase a site and then direct all of that traffic to a subdomain of your site / 301 the entire domain over / 301 specific URLs over to the new resources (which one of these that makes sense is case specific).
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#37a good way to do this is chosing a very unique username.
- sincerely, meatsock.Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?
#38Change your name into something more unique. For example, a975c295ddeab5b1a5323df92f61c4cc9fc88207
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#39Your site is basically empty. Current content:
Welcome.
Hi, I'm Viktor. More to come, in the meantime you can contact me via twitter, linkedin, or via email at at .
More links and a pgp key at Keybase.
Made with ️ in Nice.
Should say something more like:
Welcome.
Hi, I'm Viktor Vojnovski. I do (stuff you do, reasons why people would look for you online). You can also find me on twitter @vojnovski. Here is my linkedin profile. You can email me via ViktorVojnovski at .
I can also be found on Keybase.
Made with ️ in Nice, France.
As others have said, it really should be ViktorVojnovski.com.
Edited to reflect updated location info.
Re your update. My suggested edits don't add a lot more words. But they do replace completely empty fluff ("More to come, in the meantime ...") with actual useful info. That empty fluff is apparently also a lie if there is no intent to actually add more info.
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#40The domain name itself is one of the most important factors for google. Apart from that your h1 says welcome and has an inside. If you put your name in the h1 it's gonna help your ranking. There is no content at all on this site. If you want to get up in the rankings you need to provide content that is relevant to your name. Btw the html entities you're using miss a semicolon which is invalid html. I think google lik…
Is there a significant penalty to having a domain name where the ccTLD finishes the word (youtu.be)?
in my experience, google does not include the tld for purposes of a full word match on the domain. Last I tried this was about a year ago.