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!
Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?
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Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?
#12There are no simple hacks to get to the top. You need people to be searching for your name, find your link, and then spend time on the page. It helps a lot if you have posts that show up on Reddit, or other social networks.
Since there is no content at all on your site there's no way anybody will stay on your page.
Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?
#13There are no simple hacks to get to the top. You need people to be searching for your name, find your link, and then spend time on the page. It helps a lot if you have posts that show up on Reddit, or other social networks. Since there is no content at all on your site there's no way anybody will stay on your page.
How does Google figure out if visitors stayed on the page? Chrome telemetry (creepy)? Google Analytics (are you required to use this to get a good ranking)?
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#14Your website needs to have high quality content and you need high quality websites linking to your website to rank better. Tweaking the speed and server setup isn't productive until you've done this.
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#15The 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 likes valid html better :)
Hope that helps, Martin
Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?
#16Change your name into something more unique. For example,
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#17If your target are also users from outside of the Republic of Macedonia then forget the .mk domain. Use a generic tld.
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#18Hey Viktor....
I googled your domain (vv.mk) and, if I were in your shoes, I would wait for a few days and see if your website ranks. The cached version still seems to point at Blogger. I don't read Macedonian (assuming that Google Translate picked the correct language), but the cached title is still "Free your mind".
If I were in your shoes, I would:
1.) Assume that it will take at least a week or two to re-index your site and start ranking your new content.
2.) Add some content. One of the most surefire ways to get Google to respond to content changes is to add a metric shit tonne of new content.
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#19To some degree, this is a Sisyphean task: Google doesn't have one solitary index or signal anymore, it's extremely personalized. So even if you are number one for you, it's extremely likely that you won't be for much of the rest of the world.
And this assumes you have a unique-ish name/site/project.
Re: Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?
#201. 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.