How to get your portfolio to show up on Google

5 min read

You built a portfolio, and when you Google your own name, it is nowhere. This is normal, and it is fixable. A few specific things decide whether your page gets found, and most of them are out of your hands if your builder does not handle them right.

Google has to be able to read it

If your portfolio is a single JavaScript app that loads its content after the page opens, Google can see a blank page. The text needs to be in the HTML when the page loads. This is the quiet reason a lot of hand-built React portfolios never rank for anything.

It needs to be in a sitemap and not blocked

A sitemap tells Google your page exists. A stray noindex tag or a robots rule tells Google to stay away. Plenty of portfolios are accidentally doing the second one. Check both.

Your name belongs in the obvious places

The page title, the main heading, the first line. When someone searches your name plus the word portfolio, those are the parts Google matches. If your name appears nowhere in the text, do not expect to rank for it.

Then give it time and a few links

New pages take weeks to get indexed. Linking to your portfolio from your GitHub, LinkedIn, and X helps people find it and helps Google trust it. Worth putting the link everywhere it belongs.

The shortcut

Aksara pages are server-rendered, listed in a sitemap, and put your name in the title by default. The indexing basics are handled, so the only job left is doing work worth finding.