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Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?

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post #39

Your 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…

Fyi, it's "Republic of Macedonia".

Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?

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post #39

Your 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…

Fyi, it's "Republic of Macedonia".

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Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?

#43
post #33

Since 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).

or you just use that domain for your site, as it (supposedly) already has built Domain Authority and Trust Flow. Redirects pass on some linkjuice to the redirected domain. But not as much as using the domain that HAS it built up already.

A grey/black hat SEO tactic is to use that domain as part of a PBN (private blog network). Basically manufacturing backlinks to boost your money site.

Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?

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> Most of the comments suggest this is due to the lack of content. While I accept this might be a cause for the bad ranking, the lack of content is quite intentional, the page is meant to be...

The reason for you omitting content isn't going to magically increase your pagerank.

Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?

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post #11

1. Get your full name as a .com (victorvojnovski.com) 2. Put any real content on it. Maybe a blog? Helps to have links back. 3. Wait a few years. 4. Success!

> Get your full name as a .com (victorvojnovski.com) Do this NOW. Seriously.

Full name is very important because google gives heavy weight to exact matches on domain names for search terms and names tend to be pretty unique.

The other important signal is backlinks to your domain from social networks with your name. These will indicate that the domain is authoritative for the name on the social profile.

Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?

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post #11

1. Get your full name as a .com (victorvojnovski.com) 2. Put any real content on it. Maybe a blog? Helps to have links back. 3. Wait a few years. 4. Success!

> Get your full name as a .com (victorvojnovski.com) Do this NOW. Seriously.

I dunno if it is so important these days.

I've had my full name as a .com for about 20 years now, with plenty of content on the site. Over the years I've watched it slip down the search results and it is now on page 10 when you search for my firstname lastname where my domain is firstnamelastname.com

But then again I have a more common name than victorvojnovski including a D-list celebrity, evangelical country musician, and retail store with the same name.

Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?

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Don't worry about making your personal site the first result. Having your name spread out across multiple sites can help give searchers a more wholistic view of who are and what you have done in the past that makes you stand out.

Here's what I did: I negotiated with my parents before I was born to give me a unique name.

I made a github profile with lots of projects.

I wrote a short crappy book for Amazon Kindle.

I was involved with a local organization's student opensource initiative (like a small Google summer of code) and they have me mentioned in various articles.

I made a LinkedIn profile.

I made a youtube channel from when I was a kid in 2008 and have many videos.

I wrote a piece of fan fiction way back when.

I probably should add my name to my various personal project sites...

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