Tips on How To Rebuild Your Reputation Online
Posted By Maurice Hunter on January 3, 2011
Your business reputation carries as much value online as it does offline. But unlike traditional media forms such as radio, television or print, the internet makes it a lot easier to defame your company and brand reputation. With the ease of posting in blogs, forums and social networking sites, or submitting articles in ezines, your reputation is game for slander and libel from anyone with accesses to cyberspace.
Who could these people be who would engage in defamation slander against you? You have your competitors, disgruntled and dismissed employees, and dissatisfied customers. Even one of your own staff under a different name can easily post offending content online that can severely compromise your reputation. Then there are people who simple get a kick out of engaging in defamation of character, whether against people, consumer brands or companies.
It is no wonder that protecting brand and company reputation online has become a preoccupation for many brand managers and corporate PR heads. It only takes a few minutes of offensive online content to be read by millions and unless you are vigilant enough to spot and recognize them, the damage could be done long before you could do anything about it. So what can brand managers and conscious PR executives do to protect and manage online reputation?
Initially, as a company, you can just sit back and relax. Let the damage disappear as time goes by. Besides, there is a high possibility that the negative remarks made about your brand or your company may not appear in the first few pages of search engine results anyway. This alternative though is not advisable because it does not really help you in managing the damage.
Secondly, you can file a legal suit against the person responsible for slanderous and libelous statements against you and/or your brand. If you win, you will definitely profit from it monetarily. The downside, however, would be the time that it would take for you to process and file the case. It is way too costly and you may not win.
Lastly, you can go by the way of reputation management. Use the same techniques by your competitor and try to beat them at their own game. These methods are called search engine reputation management.
If search engine optimization provides you with the option to ensure that your presence in cyberspace is felt by snagging the topmost search ranks for that particular keyword, search engine reputation management goes further than that. It knocks a specific search results downwards so it cannot be seen by someone who is searching for that keyword. You can do this to sites that have made derogatory comments about your brand and your company. Drag the site, the article, the blog post, down to the bottom so it won’t affect your brand. Since this requires an expert, you can tap a company that specializes in reputation management repair services. These professionals will do the job for you.
Remember that protecting your image and your brand online is a must. It is hard to establish a name, much less a brand. If it is not protected vigilantly, you may be undoing years of hard work. Start today and consult a reputation management expert immediately.
Call Wag the Dog Marketing, Top-Dog.org, now at (800) 825-9500 and learn how we crush Internet libel in short order with our powerful libel slander repair, very effectively.
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