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

Re:Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search... by tedmiston on Sunday November 26, 2017 @07:33PM (#15783966)

I'll second the point about creating a hub. I've pushed my personal site + blog to the first page for my name using this technique.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Taylor+Edmiston&ie=UTF-8&oe=...

I link back to it from everywhere, especially my social profiles.

The blog is more important in terms of content, so I'm planning to transition to that being my main hub with everything else as a profile page on that site eventually.

I also previously had the rest of the first page with my social profiles until someone with the same name as me got arrested and convicted of murder, and that press sunk my links to page two. On top of that, another person with the same name is getting married and their marriage sites are ahead too but I think that's temporary and they'll sink afterwards. I've started including my middle initial in social profiles which helps differentiate.

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Re:Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search... by eccfcco15 on Sunday November 26, 2017 @10:17PM (#15784562)

FYI, it looks like you have an expired SSL cert on your website.

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Re:Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search... by tedmiston on Monday November 27, 2017 @02:32PM (#15790387)

Thanks, I'll get that taken care of.

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Re:Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search... by megamindbrian2 on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:56AM (#15787308)

Also looks like you went to prison for murder.

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Re:Ask HN: How to become the first result of a Google search... by tedmiston on Monday November 27, 2017 @02:32PM (#15790397)

That guys is basically the reason I started using my (different than his) middle initial everywhere across the interwebs. :/

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