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I did a post over at ReputationManagers.com about Google suggest and how it works, check it out: Early this month we talked about some news that Google removed “Scam” as an auto-suggestion in its search suggestion tool. It looks like we all celebrated too early because it is back in the suggestion box. If you do not know what I am speaking about, here is a little back story on what Google suggest is, why it is here, and why you should care about it. Full Blog Post Here Bookmark It Hide Sites
For years, Rip Off Report, Google, Complaints Board and various bloggers have been hiding behind the term “user generated content” and the idea that “it’s not our content, we just list it” to remain liability-free for false statements on their websites. The problem for me is that these companies are making a profit from said content. In Rip Off Report, for example, there are advertisements everywhere (often contextually-based from the company listed). In Google, there are sponsored results related to the company or person you typed in to get the content. In my opinion, the moment you are making money on content is the moment you should be liable for the content on your website. Just because it’s not on printed paper does not mean websites shouldn’t be held responsible for their content. Newspapers and magazines, which have been sued … Continue reading →
Nothing helps credibility for your company more than when someone types in your name or company name into Google, and recent news about an award you won, a great promo you did, or a client you landed shows in the top search results. Everyone does research about you before doing business with you. When something great appears in the search engines about you, the deal is yours! One of the big problems you will find is that most news worthy topics will drizzle down the listings, and soon enough, be so far buried in the search engine rankings that no one will ever see it again. It is the web’s version of todays paper turning into yesterdays, then last weeks, etc. and no one will ever see it again. The good news about the digital version of the above scenarios is that … Continue reading →
I know I have not written a lot about reputation management in this blog, I am thinking about actually changing the direction of my blog toward this. I believe that this is going to be a continued huge problem over the coming years and we have a lot of insight on it. Anyways, I was recently published in Visibility Magazine with one of my articles on reputation management. Go check it out! The Best Offense is Good Defensive Reputation Management by Danny DeMichele Here are some pages that I promote to make sure I have the strongest reputation management campaign possible: Danny DeMichele‘s facebook Danny DeMichele‘s Crunch Base Account Danny DeMichele dot net Danny DeMichele‘s Naymz Profile A Danny DeMichele press release Bookmark It Hide Sites