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Whiteboard Friday - Dominate Your Brand Search Engine Result Page

Danny Dover

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

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Danny Dover

Whiteboard Friday - Dominate Your Brand Search Engine Result Page

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

 This week on Whiteboard Friday we pull a secret out of the SEO secrets vault. This handy strategy helps you take advantage of the specific types of results that Google chooses for people and company based searches and helps you dominate your brand search engine result page.

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Dominate Your Brand Search Engine Result Page (SERP)


Build YourBrand.com

Building a brand hub is an obvious suggestion but not necessarily for the reason you might think. Use these types of websites to promote what other domains are saying about you or your brand elsewhere on the Internet. This gives those pages (social media profiles, interviews, etc...) link juice and improves their relevancy, thus helping them rank for your brand SERP. (Hint: Use anchor text like "SEOmoz on Twitter" or "John Doe in the New York Times"). You can see an example of me doing this tactic on DannyDover.com

Build an Alternative Brand Site

After building your brand hub and linking from its homepage to the other pages you want to rank, you should build another brand site. In practical terms I recommend using a single page on a related domain. (I use this page targeting just my first name, Danny as my alternate). This helps you command a second result in the SERP because it is on a separate (and in this case, a more powerful) domain.

Create Social Media Profiles

This is obvious. Social media profiles (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, etc...) are both great search results for people/brand searches and are on very powerful domains. This makes them great resources to fill up your brand SERP.

Do Interviews/News

Linking to relevant articles/interviews on your brand hub site is an excellent tactic for filling the remaining spots on your brand SERP. Like the last tactic, these pages are helpful search results for searchers and are usually on powerful domains.

Do PPC

This final tactic is less intuitive. Bidding on your name/brand allows you to control the ads on your brand SERP. This is helpful for branding (der...) and it actually tends to increase the click through rates of the number one result on the page as well as the ad.

Update: You can see 4 more excellent suggestions from seo-himanshu in the comments below.


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If you have any other advice that you think is worth sharing, feel free to post it in the comments. This post is very much a work in progress. As always, feel free to e-mail me if you have any suggestions on how I can make my posts more useful. All of my contact information is available on my SEOmoz profile under Danny. Thanks!

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Danny Dover

Danny Dover is a passionate online marketer, influential writer and obsessed bucket list completer. He is the author of the bestselling book Search Engine Optimization Secrets and the founder of Intriguing Ideas LLC. Before starting his own company, Danny was the Senior SEO Manager at AT&T and the Lead SEO at SEOmoz.org.

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