Google Profiles – Your Free SEO Juice
ByIf you didn’t know already, Google has a service called “Google Profile” which allows folks to more easily search for you and find out more about you.
For example, this is my profile: Raymond Fong profile
It takes literally a few minutes to setup and is completely free. Google is integrating this into more and more services like Google Reader and Google Maps.
Now, from a SEO perspective you should also care because of two reasons:
- Profile shows up when folks search for your name
- Potential backlinks
Let me explain. When I filled out my profile and submitted, my profile showed up on Google search result for my name, “raymond fong”, literally 2 minutes later.
Raymond Fong's Google Profile
So if you are concerned about branding (and you should be), this is just another social media profile that you can add to your arsenal for blanketing the search engines with the mediums YOU control.
Also, in the profile itself, you have spots where you can put in links on your profile.
Link Love From Google Profile
These links are NOT “nofollow” which means they help add some SEO juice to the websites you point them to (so be sure to use relevant anchor text). Now granted the profiles don’t have that much pagerank (yet)… but it doesn’t hurt eh? 
So go ahead and take 5 minutes out of your day and go setup your Google Profile!
Raymond
P.S. When filling in your URLs, don’t forget to use some deep links and to use good anchor text!
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Finally, something SEO-related I can understand
Thanks dude!
Ben
Any time my friend… any time
Raymond
Raymond,
How do I set up the subscribe to on my blog? I am using Flexx. I want to use Feedburner and I am having a harder time configuring this beast than I am setting up my entire blog on Flexx.
Thanks Ray. Great content as usual….going to go implement right now.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
I really liked your blog! i hope you continue posting this kind of information.
Hi five folks … also it should be noted that Google is aware of how you spell so folks can search for your name
Google Results 1 – 10 of about 36,200 for Raymond Fong’s Google Profile.
Google Results 1 – 10 of about 63,500 for Raymond Fong Google Profile.
All my best to you and your big G results
Phillip Skinner
Great! Going to make a profile right now. I love free backlinks and serp juice. The more I can get the happier I am.
Thanks for this tip. I have made a profile of mine.
And ya i think, important thing rather then getting one back link, is to have a profile page on google.
Ya i agree that our google profile can rank first for our name and thats really helpful in fact. People can even explore your homepage after they land to your Google profile.
Really thanks.
That’s cool, I didn’t know about this trick until I read your article. I’ve just added my links with keyword to my Google Profile, let’s wait for the improvement. It’s fun and it only took me less than 2mins to do it
thanks. some great simple ideas for me to think about.