Back on Monday April 2nd, I wrote a post titled “Are you missing out on this Traffic? I was…” about registering your own name as a domain name to get more traffic from the search engines — or at least to dominate the first page of results for searches on your name.
Well, I totally forgot to check to see whether RosalindGardner.com made it to the first page of results for a “Rosalind Gardner” search until just now… and I see that it’s taken the 8th spot.
Not bad. Now I guess I’d better do that with the rest of my sites, eh? 
Have you registered yours, yet?
About Rosalind Gardner
Rosalind, I followed your example right after I read your earlier post and registered pamelaheywood.com – As of now, it is still devoid of content owing to my general tardiness, however, already if you search for “Pamela Heywood”, it comes up as the top result. Of course, that was relatively easy, as I have a LOT less competition than you do, but I was aware of people searching for me by name and had meant to do something along these lines, but never quite got around to it. So thanks for this tip / reminder, because it was worth doing.
I think the amount of time you’ve been online and actively creating quality content helps to boost your rankings over time as well. I just Googled my own name and found that, on the first five pages, there are only 14 results that are NOT me (out of 33,000,000 total results).
If I Google john+counsel+profit+clinic (business links), out of 12,700,000 results I dominate the first 20 pages (at least 50% of results — and I stopped checking at page 20). The first irrelevant result doesn’t appear until page 10, and on the first 15 pages there are only 5 results that aren’t me. (They’re typically someone named John who is legal counsel for a non-profit clinic of some kind.)
This hasn’t been the result of any particular SEO strategies or tactics. Just 15 years of continuous content creation across more than 100 domains I own.