Coverage under your own name
Notability is not inherited from a company. If every article is about the business and none is about you, you are not a candidate for a biography or a legacy badge — and that is a fixable problem with a long timeline.
How do you build a personal brand in the press?
Coverage has to be about you rather than your company, because notability is not inherited: a well-covered business whose founder has never been written about personally supports one Wikipedia article, not two. Paid placement under your own name builds visibility and search presence immediately. Earned personal coverage — profiles, interviews about your own work, expert commentary — is what verification reviewers and Wikipedia editors actually weigh.
Interviews are worth less than people expect for notability, because they are you talking rather than a source assessing you. They still help visibility and entity resolution, so they are worth doing — just not worth counting.
What counts as personal coverage
- A profile or feature about you, written independently
- Expert commentary quoted in coverage of your field
- A named award or recognition in your own name
- A book, a body of published work, or a recognised research record
- Consistent naming across every platform, so the coverage resolves to one person
- A Knowledge Panel or Wikidata item tying it together
How a personal coverage case runs
- 1
Audit what exists under your name
Separated from coverage of your company, because reviewers separate them and most founders have not.
- 2
Decide the positioning
What you are the person to ask about. Coverage follows a specific claim far more readily than a general one.
- 3
Placement for the baseline
Paid outlets under your own name, to fill a thin search result and give an assistant something to describe you with.
- 4
Entity alignment
LinkedIn, Wikidata, structured data and your profiles all stating the same facts, so the coverage resolves to one person rather than three.
- 5
Earned coverage, over months
Commentary and profiles. Slower, unguaranteeable, and the only part that builds a notability case.
The specifics
- Priced
- Per outlet for placement; the entity work is a separate case
- Immediate effect
- A search result for your name that is not only your own profiles
- Long-term effect
- Only earned coverage contributes to notability
- Counts as delivered
- The live article URL on the named outlet
What we will not claim
- Paid placements under your name do not make you notable. They make you findable, which is a different and still useful thing.
- Genuine editorial coverage cannot be guaranteed by anybody. A journalist decides what to write, and a provider promising earned placement is either selling paid placement under a different name or lying outright.
- Building a personal notability case takes months to years. Anyone offering it in weeks is selling paid placement.
- A stronger personal search presence surfaces everything about you, including what you would rather it did not.
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