One easy way to take control of your what searchers see on searches for your name is to claim and optimize authoritative social media profiles. But of course, there are a lot of profiles from which to choose and some perform better than others in search. Here are a couple that I have noticed do especially well in search results:
LinkedIn - My LinkedIn profile has pretty steadily stayed near the top of results for searches for my name.
Twitter - Twitter is probably #2 on my list (although this wasn't really intended to be in order).
Google + - Shouldn't be much of a surprise that my Google Plus profile is near the top. It is, after all, owned by Google.
SlideShare - This one might come as a surprise to some folks. I've found both slideshare profiles, as well as, presentations do very well in search results.
JD Supra - Unique really to legal professionals, JD Supra profiles are fairly well optimized and show up.
Facebook - Yep, when optimized, facebook profiles and pages do pretty well. So be careful if you don't want people to find your facebook pages in search.
Blogger - Another Google-owned property, Blogger blogs (like this one) on the blogspot.com domain are pretty strong.
Scribd - Another social sharing and publishing site where profiles perform very well.
Tumblr - The micro blogging and sharing site called Tumblr does well.
About.me - Finally, about.me profiles round out my top choices.
What site profiles perform the best for searches for your name?
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