Have You Claimed Your Google Knowledge Panel?

At 22:14 of this video interview on The Indie Author Podcast, The Many Levers of Your Author Platform with Andrea De Werd, Andrea speaks with Matty Dalrymple about claiming your profiles:

"Once you have an ISBN, claim your profiles. Go claim your BookBub profile, go claim your GoodReads profile, claim your Amazon Author Central..."

I'd heard of all of those before. But even with my 4th book releasing in March, this next one was new to me:

"And then, related to your website, you can claim your Google Knowledge Panel... When you search for anyone on Google, there's a little side panel that pops up on the right hand column, and it will say 'Is this you? Claim this panel.' at the bottom... so you can click that."

I searched Google for "Claim Google Knowledge Panel"
and this is a screenshot of the beginning of the instructions. 

Andrea explains the once you've claimed it, you can control your Google Knowledge Panel contents--you can include a short bio, decide what social media channels it links through to, and you can even point people to your newest book. 

It's a great lever for your platform as a children's book creator, and we should all consider pulling that lever!

Illustrate, Translate, and Write On,
Lee