Have You Built Your Google Profile Yet?

The latest Google buzz is that they have introduced a feature within Google Profiles that will give you a little more control over search results when you Google your own name. Google profiles are not new — mine has been in place for quite a while now. What is new is that you can now show up in a box on the first page of search results for your name.  If you have uploaded a photo you will see a thumbnail image next to a link to your full profile page. You will likely notice that Google profiles resembles a Facebook profile page which can’t be an accident.

Your Google profile lets you offer up a lot of information about yourself or your business. By including a brief bio, an image (I suggest the one you brand yourself with across the internet), links to your blogs, social networking profiles, websites and just about any place else that you may appear on the internet, you are able to aggregate your online presence and obtain prominent placement in Google results.