Can poor reputation management damage your SEO strategy?
Many seem to believe that their search engine optimisation (SEO) campaign and reputation management strategy are two separate entities, yet it seems that having a poor public image online can...
View ArticleWhy it’s important to protect your brand’s reputation online
Most businesses know that in the modern digital era, it is important to maintain a clean reputation for your business online. It would be easy to assume that because you have control of your own...
View ArticleBusiness web tone: lighten up
Traditional versus internet business attitudes are a bit like the Mac versus PC ads: one comes across as staid and old-fashioned, while the other fits in seamlessly with the ideas of a new world. A...
View ArticleGoogle launches Me on the Web
Google has created another way for businesses to monitor their online reputation, called Me on the Web. The new tool from Google is situated on the Google dashboard, below Account Details and can be...
View ArticleHow does online reputation management work?
Reputation Management, or ‘online reputation management’ as it’s sometimes known, is one of the newest buzz terms in the SEO industry. Rather than optimising a single website for a particular search...
View ArticleReputation Management advice from StuckOn in .Net
If you’re interested in protecting your brand online, then you’ll be interested in reputation management, sometimes referred to as ‘online reputation management’. This practise allows you to keep tabs...
View ArticleResponding to reviews: meet Mr Grumpy
When you think about it, it’s quite understandable that Mr Grumpy is the way he is. Living in Happyland, the fictional land in the Mr Men books where everyone is sickeningly happy all the damn time, Mr...
View ArticleFour Top Tips to Successful Online Reputation Management
The Internet, as we all know, is a very public place where dirty washing doesn’t just get aired in front of people; it gets inspected, deconstructed, reposted and even spoofed if left unchecked. When...
View ArticleSticks and stones may break your SEO
Anyone who’s ever heard the school-yard rhyme of ‘sticks and stones‘ has probably had a little moment of doubt. As much as you might resolve that ‘sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will...
View ArticleSour grapes are never attractive
Picture the face of a person who has just unexpectedly bitten into a lemon. Really picture it. The drawing in of the lips, the little frown, the crinkling of the nose; all those unattractive features....
View ArticleReputation management or legal action?
According to a recent news story on the BBC, a Cardiff based solicitors is taking a lot of cases at the moment as a result of comments and accusations posted by people on Facebook. The Welsh based law...
View ArticleTripAdvisor to face legal action over negative reviews
Reviews websites have, for some, been the scourge of online businesses. Websites such as blagger.com, ciao.co.uk and tripadvisor.com are frequented by millions of users, all looking for reviews of the...
View ArticleSEO can help minimise PR fallout
It has emerged that the millionaire owner of Segway, Jimi Heselden, 62, has died in a freak accident involving one of the vehicles after driving the scooter off the edge of a cliff into the River...
View ArticleYour Entourage on the web
If you were at a party and one of your friends arrived towing their PR agent along as part of their entourage, you’d think they’d gone crazy. Your normal social environment is not likely to be...
View ArticleJuror replaced after posting guilty verdict on Facebook
When will people realise that what they post on the Internet is visible to all, and most likely will be found by people who you really do not want to see it? The latest example of someone making an...
View ArticleFacebook’s trapped cat claptrap
Moggy bothering Royal Bank of Scotland employee Mary Bale hit the headlines this week. If you’re unaware of who she is, she’s the mumsy 45-year-old who was caught on CCTV disposing of a neighbour’s cat...
View ArticleFacebook could be your downfall!
If you were to ask a physicist what the most abundant material was in the universe, he or she would put down their pipe (because female physicists also smoke pipes, fact), pick absentmindedly at the...
View ArticleGoogle up before the beak over cyber bullies
Google’s ass is grass, and a former model who wants to take the search giant to court in an effort to unmask online bullies is a lawn mower. Carla Franklin, a former model, was alerted to several users...
View ArticleCowell alleged to gag websites as well as singers
X-Factor pantomime nasty Simon Cowell is a very shrewd man. In recent years, he’s extended his python-like stranglehold on the music business to our TV screens, not only here in the UK, but also in the...
View ArticleHelp me, Twitter; you’re my only hope
At last – a Twitter story to warm the coal-black cockles of your heart. Terminally ill Tanner Brown, aged just 10, suffers from muscular dystrophy and is immobile without his special wheelchair. When...
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