: Brand name as keyword for a brand.com site. How to make it appear in search? I am working on a website for a client, and even though the site ranks extremely well for various different keywords

@Heady270

It sounds like you are already doing everything on-site that you need to do:


Have the brand name as the domain name
Use the brand name on your pages


To increase your authority to appear in the search results for your brand name, you need links. Only getting relevant, quality, inbound links to the site will get your site to rank for its own brand name. It helps if those links use your brand name as the anchor text. Start with any other sites that you own and link to them from there. Create a Facebook page, a Twitter account with the same brand name and link back to the site from there. Ask friends and family to link from their pages.

Eventually Google will rank your site for its brand name. Google is very good at doing so. It may take up to a year for that to happen consistently. Eventually you will even get "site links" in the Google search results where Google displays many sub-pages on the site as well. That may take another year or two. See: What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?

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