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Part of our guide to personal reputation management — part of Improving Your Google Search Results for Your Name: The Complete Honest Guide. This page answers one specific question from that guide.

What should I do in the first 30 days to improve my name results?

From the Personal Reputation Management team · Last updated October 19, 2026

We’re still writing this guide — here’s what we have so far. The short answer below is ready to use today, and the outline shows exactly what the finished guide will cover. In the meantime, the completed guides in the Knowledge Center cover the foundations.

Short answer: Week one: audit and confirm your results and fix free errors. Week two: choose your domain and approve the core facts for your own site. Week three: unify name form, city, profession, and photo across your real profiles. Week four: claim the trusted listings you are entitled to, then stop and let indexing work. Daily re-searching adds anxiety, not rankings; judge progress monthly.

What this guide will cover

This article is in our writing queue. The outline below is the exact scope it will cover — no more, no less — and the short answer above is the honest summary you can use today.

The short version you can act on now

Week one: audit and confirm your results and fix free errors. Week two: choose your domain and approve the core facts for your own site. Week three: unify name form, city, profession, and photo across your real profiles. Week four: claim the trusted listings you are entitled to, then stop and let indexing work. Daily re-searching adds anxiety, not rankings; judge progress monthly.

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Honest by design — including what we don't do

What we do

  • Show you what people find, result by result, and ask you to confirm what's actually you.
  • Build your personal site from facts you approved — nothing is published without your approval.
  • Use licensed search data and official tools only. No scraping.
  • Keep watch weekly, in plain English, with one clear next step.

What we never do

  • No fake reviews, fake profiles, fake news, or bought links.
  • No bogus takedown notices, and no promises to remove results or guarantee rankings.
  • No searching for anyone but you, and we never sell your data.
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What should I do in the first 30 days to improve my name results?