[sixhobbits]

It definitely helps to have a unique name, but it's possible without. A lot of good advice in this thread, but as someone who achieved what you want, some extra points:

* Don't focus on one site. Spread your content around on as many sites as possible and link each one back to your home page. This is easier than you might expect -- nearly all tech sites are looking for content creators, whether or not they explicitly advertise it.

* Don't expect it to happen in a matter of days. It took me months/years to push "Gareth Dwyer" the poker player off the front page of google, and all he had was some YouTube page. It takes weeks for Google to update their indexes sometimes (even changing a big site over from no-www to www recently took several weeks to properly reflect on Google).

* The URL is important. Get a .com or another 'more official' domain. This is a grey/changing area, but people still have pretty big biases based on TLDs, and this affects click-through and therefore ranking. I wouldn't click on vv.mk unless I was actually in Macedonia and expecting it.

* And as others have said, put more content on your site. Even if it's only a landing page, you want people to spend a minute or so looking around. If it has a high bounce rate, it'll hurt your rankings.

Good luck :)

[tedmiston]

I'll second the point about creating a hub. I've pushed my personal site + blog to the first page for my name using this technique.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Taylor+Edmiston&ie=UTF-8&oe=...

I link back to it from everywhere, especially my social profiles.

The blog is more important in terms of content, so I'm planning to transition to that being my main hub with everything else as a profile page on that site eventually.

I also previously had the rest of the first page with my social profiles until someone with the same name as me got arrested and convicted of murder, and that press sunk my links to page two. On top of that, another person with the same name is getting married and their marriage sites are ahead too but I think that's temporary and they'll sink afterwards. I've started including my middle initial in social profiles which helps differentiate.

[eccfcco15]

FYI, it looks like you have an expired SSL cert on your website.

[tedmiston]

Thanks, I'll get that taken care of.

[megamindbrian2]

Also looks like you went to prison for murder.

[tedmiston]

That guys is basically the reason I started using my (different than his) middle initial everywhere across the interwebs. :/