PPeogeo
The test

Could Google
vouch for you?

Twelve questions. Each one is weighted by how much it genuinely counts, so this is not a scorecard designed to flatter you into a call. It runs in your browser, asks for no email, and is built to be able to say no.

Answer honestly rather than optimistically. An inflated score here costs you nothing today and costs you a year later.

Is there a Wikipedia article about you?
Not your company. You, by name.
Has a publication you do not control written about you by name?
A byline you placed does not count. Somebody else writing about you does.
Do you have a book, paper or patent with a permanent identifier?
An ISBN, a DOI, a patent number. Something a catalogue holds.
Do you appear in a structured database?
Crunchbase, IMDb, ORCID, a faculty page, a bar roll, a medical register, a sports record.
Do you hold a named role at an organisation with real independent coverage?
Named on their site and named in coverage about them.
Does a search for your exact name return mostly you?
If the first page is three different people, that is a collision and it changes the job.
Do you have a site on a domain you own with an About page in your name?
A personal domain. Not a profile on somebody else's platform.
Is your name spelled identically everywhere you appear?
Middle initial, accents, shortened forms. Any variation is a reason to stay unsure.
Have third parties published your name in podcasts, panels or speaker lists?
Their page, their domain, your name on it.
Is there a Google Scholar profile, citation record or published research under your name?
Only if it is genuinely yours.
Has an awards body, ranking or industry list named you?
Published by them, not a badge you were sold.
Is one consistent headshot used across your profiles?
The same face, the same photograph, in the same places.
How to read the weights

Why these twelve and nothing else

Every question above is something Google can check without taking your word for it. That is the whole filter. Follower counts, engagement rates, newsletter subscribers and brand audits are missing because there is no independent source a machine can check them against.

The heaviest weights sit on things somebody else published: an encyclopedia article, press coverage, a book in a catalogue, an entry in a register. The lightest sit on things you control, like your headshot, which help only once the rest is already there.

Sharing your name with somebody else is scored as a question rather than a dealbreaker, because it is survivable. It just changes the job from building a file to making yours the one Google prefers, which is longer and more expensive, and much better to hear at the start than at the end.

RelatedAuthor Authority: the keystone of personal branding11:37
Eleven minutes on author authority, which is the single heaviest thing on the list above.
AlsoFifteen simple steps: personal branding explained in three minutes2:44
Fifteen steps, if you would rather do the groundwork yourself before paying anybody.
What a strong position looks like

Four finished ones, and one that is not a panel at all

Chetan Bhagat

Books with permanent identifiers plus decades of coverage. The catalogue does most of the work.

Radhika Gupta

A named role at a company the press writes about constantly, so the coverage turns up on its own.

Rand Fishkin

Founder history, a book, and a very large body of third-party writing that names him.

ZerodhaNot a panel

In the set deliberately. This is sitelinks, not a knowledge panel. People screenshot it and call it one.

Public figures, used to teach. Not clients. Unmodified captures, 31 August 2026, each linked to the search that produced it.

Questions

About the test itself

Is anything I answer here sent anywhere?

No. The whole test runs in your browser and nothing leaves it. There is no form, no email gate and no tracking on the result. Refresh the page and it is gone.

Is a high score a promise?

No. It is a reading of your starting position, and a starting position is not an outcome. Google decides whether a record gets created, and it does that on evidence and a schedule nobody outside Google can see.

The test told me not yet. What now?

Take it seriously, because it is the same answer roughly a third of enquiries get. The route forward is not a consultant. It is producing the thing that generates independent coverage: publish the book, take the role, do the research, get on the record. Then this becomes a six month job instead of an impossible one.

Why is Wikipedia weighted heaviest?

Because nothing else confirms a person as strongly, and because the About text on a large share of panels is quoted directly from it with attribution. It is also the one nobody should try to force. Notability is decided by editors, and a manufactured article is removed and leaves a trace.