Google is the largest search engine out there and odds are pretty good that if someone wants to learn more about you or your company they’ll go to Google to search. Real quick, click on this link to go to google.com and type in your name. What did you see? Were you in the top 10 search results? Were you in the top 20? If your name is John Smith you may have difficulties getting in the first 10 search results but more importantly you don’t want to be mistaken for a John Smith that may have a bad online reputation.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could control how you appeared in those search results and possibly push the other John Smiths of the world to page 2? Now you can by creating a Google Profile. Similar to a Facebook profile, a Google Profile lets you add:
- a profile photo
- contact infomation
- your interests
- a bio
- links to your website, blog, social networks, photo-sharing sites, YouTube channel, etc.
Founder of Current Photographer, co-host of The Digital Photography Cafe Show, Designer, Photographer, and overall tech geek.