Comments on: Do-It-Yourself Online Reputation Management – 7 How To Tips

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:52:53 +0000

@Miquel very nice idea on the press release in one’s name. Good follow-up on it too, with the link building.

@Neil, it depends on the circumstances. Alumni Try to Rewrite History on College-Newspaper Web Sites details some situations where student folly haunts the Google powered professional world.

@Denver SEO I hear you. On the other hand, I have a harder time getting an honest negative opinion about things. So many product reviews are full with scraper, reseller and affiliate reviews…

@The Agra Indian Yes, but by this time it’s usually too late: you should already own all reputation outlets for your company, brand, service, CEO, etc.

@Udi Nice! Idea sounds a bit like Namyz.

By: Udi Drezner

Udi Drezner — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:02:59 +0000

I would also like to recommend creating a profile on LookupPage, a personal branding & ORM tool that helps people and businesses create a personal web page, always visible at the first page of Google when someone searches their name. Such a service can help you easily add a positive result on search engines and help your ORM efforts. You can check it out if you like 🙂

By: Ranking Challenge

Ranking Challenge — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:12:24 +0000

You can keep eye on who is writing a bout you online by subscribing to google alert with keyword such as your website.com, your name or your organization name or both this will hep you to generate auto email alert from google when some one write about you on any other wesbite

By: The Agra Indian

The Agra Indian — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:57:52 +0000

Hi Jeff, you have posted a great list of to do thing to minimize the effect of those embarrassing postings. This is also a great list to boost websites position in search engines. But as said by Denver SEO it will take time. Is there any immediate actions apart from legal ones.

By: Denver SEO

Denver SEO — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:05:51 +0000

It is to bad that nowadays all somebody has to do is fill out a report on a couple of websites, which I will leave nameless. I have been in situations where hundreds of people are mad at a company and you can’t work fast enough to replace the bad with the good. This post is dead on with all you can really do, besides learning to take care of your customers.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:50:30 +0000

I’m still at the “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” stage, although that would soon change if I did get any negative press.

I suppose it would be unfortunate (although unlikely) if the source of the negative information was a PR8 news outlet. Perhaps in t hat case a change of name might be in order 🙂

By: Miguel Salcido

Miguel Salcido — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:55:45 +0000

Great post on some of the quick ways to combat negative press. It all boils down to SEO techniques and link building. Finding out what social profiles rank better and working at those will help as well.

I want to add a simple technique that you did not mention, send out a Press Release targeted towards your name. If you get a good distribution many authority sites will pick it up and flood the search results with your positive PR. Now that fresh PR will not stick there, it will show up high because of the freshness factor and then fade away so you will need to keep doing them. And then pick ones that stick ranking the highest and build links to those.

By: EH

EH — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:25:57 +0000

Jeff, thanks for the post. My website is already incorporating many of your ideas, but you posted a couple new ones that we hadn’t thought of yet. Thanks for the insight and ideas!