Couple of website related questions

Hey guys, just created my first website via wordpress.org. I was trying to sort 1 thing out but cannot figure out myself. 

My website is sort of like a portfolio about me. What I do not understand is why when I search my full name on google, my website does not come up in the first couple of pages in google :s Is there something I have to do to get that to come up? I mean Certain reviews from amazon come as 5th to 6th result :s I have also done a few things with googles webmaster tools (no idea how to add a site map:p)

 

thank you :) 

It takes google a while to index new sites (usually a couple weeks at the least). Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is what you want to start looking for and learning about now, as that is going to help determine how well your website ranks in search results. SEO is a pretty big topic to cover so I would suggest googling it to learn more, but for the most part content is king, and having content that matches up with common search terms for your related area. 

There are a lot of plugins for wordpress to help with SEO, although I do not use wordpress so I cannot comment on the effectiveness of them. This looks to be a decently in depth guide/plugin though

https://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

When you start reading up on SEO though, make sure the article is fairly current (last 1-2 years) because search engines are constantly updating their algorithms, and what worked 6 years ago might not work today.