Online Reputation Management And How It Can Benefit You

July 20th, 2009 by Finbar Minstrel

by Finbar Minstrel

Online reputation management or to put it another way, the art of making sure that bad news gets buried and lots of lovely good news rises to the top and masks the bad.

It started out as a way for celebrities to maintain their “good-as-gold” reputation, but is recently becoming more and more common for every day people.

It is increasingly normal these days to “Google” a new partner, business associate, colleague etc and as such if you are not careful you can soon find your reputation tainted through no fault of your own.

In these enlightened times, the net is alive with information and with the rise in popularity of the blogging, face book etc it is now easier than ever for any disgruntled client, customer, lover, journalist to paint a less that savoury picture of you.

This is where you will need the services of a leading search engine optimization company, like us. We can simply remove some of this unwanted material in some cases, but this is a very difficult process. What we then do is fire large quantities of positive information in blogs, content, websites etc. at your name and push it above the negative stuff in the rankings so that it gets buried deeper than anyone will look when researching you.

This has the effect of pushing the unwanted material down the rankings onto the second or third page where it will do less harm to your reputation, as the complementary material moves up to the top page.

A search in Google for Kate Moss will show that she has recently had her name cleaned. As in the listings all of the more salacious stories about her are on the second and third pages and the top ten results are filled with only positive listings. In light of her recent news worthiness this would not be the case if the results were ranking completely naturally.

Bad news travels much further and faster than good news, everyone knows that, and Google is no different, so it is essential to have good information about yourself out there, ready for if this ever happens to you, or as a precautionary measure.

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