How to Rank Higher with Your Google Profile

Have you ever Google’d yourself? Of course you have, who hasn’t!
The better question is… what did you fine?
Hopefully it was all of your juicy blogs and social networking pages. After all, you wouldn’t want other people ranking for your personal and brand now would you?
In the infographic from BrandYourself.com below we learn that social profiles rank way better than other sites in the Google search results, it’s just a matter of which rank best.
Let’s take a look at what we can learn from the stats below.

• Over 1 billion names are searched using Google every day.
• 94% of people only look at the first page of Google’s search results.
• Only half of people own their first result, which is most important.
• 1 in 4 have no positive content at all on their first page to help their reputation.
• 15% have at least one negative result on their first page that damages their reputation.

Not all social networking profiles are created equally.
Here is a list of the top ranking social profiles based on how they rank in Google’s search results.

1. LinkedIn
2. Facebook
3. Zerply
4. Twitter
5. BrandYourself
6. Weebly
7. WordPress
8. Vimeo
9. Tumblr
10. FormSpring
11. Google+

Be sure to check out the infographic below for the rest of the list and other social networks and pages you should create a profile on right now.