[foopod]

Do all the things.

1. Full name as a .com helped me. Put your name in the page content too, whether it is a heading or a footer.

2. Content. Content. Content. Google needs a good reason to put your site at the top.

3. Site needs to be mobile friendly.

4. Use webmaster tools. Use Data Highlighter to show google what parts of your page are important. Make sure structured meta data is okay too.

5. Google Products, why wouldn't google prioritize sites with Google tag manager where they can learn even more about your sight and their customers.

Proof: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=jono+shields

[tyingq]

Interesting that you didn't mention inbound links. Despite all their anti spam efforts, Google rankings are still mostly about who has the most inbound links from the most prominent sites. Pagerank[1] still seems to trump everything else, content, relevance, etc.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank