Free Online Reputation Management Beginner’s Guide

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By Andy Beal on March 7, 2006

Free Online Reputation Management Beginner’s Guide

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Every single day, someone, somewhere is discussing something important to your business; your brand, your executives, your competitors, your industry. Are they hyping-up your company, building buzz for your products? Or, are they criticizing your service, complaining to others about your new product launch?

A great brand can take months, if not years, and millions of dollars to build. It should be the thing you hold most precious.

It can be destroyed in hours by a blogger upset with your company.

A new product launch could take hundreds of TV commercials, dozens of newspaper ads, and an expensive ad agency.

It can also spread like a virus with the praise of just one customer, at one message board.

A company can dominate market share, throttle competition and hold the #1 brand in the world.
It can also crash in months if it fails to listen to what its customers want.

By now, you should have an understanding of just how powerful consumer generated media (CGM) is. Your next action could be the difference between your company’s success or failure. Do you click the “back” button and ignore the conversation, or; do you read the tips and strategies outlined below, arm yourself with valuable knowledge and join the foray?

You may decide you need online reputation management services. Or you may simply follow the advice we’ve put together below. Either way, you should engage!

What to track?

* Everything related to your company: variations of company/product names, names of your key employees, all applicable product or service names.

* Information related to your competition: variations of company/product names, names of key employees, all applicable product or service names.

* Information related to your industry: Moreover.com (feeds include retail investor news, clothing industry news, consumer durables news, retail sector news, etc.) as well as applicable trade publications.

Social media monitoring tools

* If possible, monitor hourly as early action is crucial.

* Create custom RSS feeds based on keyword searches: Feedster.com, Technorati.com, IceRocket.com, Google.com/blogsearch, Blogpulse.com, MSN Spaces, Yahoo! News, Google News, MSN News and PubSub.

o Monitor This allows you to monitor a single keyword across 22 different search engine feeds at the same time.

* Filter all feeds into one RSS Reader for easy and time-efficient monitoring options include: Newsgator.com, Bloglines.com, Google Reader or Pluck.com.

* Sign up for Google and Yahoo email alerts using your desired keywords (http://alerts.yahoo.com/ and www.google.com/alerts).

* Determine message boards/forums to track: BoardReader.com, ForumFind.com, Big-Boards.com, BoardTracker.com, iVillage, Yahoo Message Boards, MSN Money

* Determine groups to track: Yahoo Groups, AOL Groups, MSN Groups, Google Groups.

* Track changes on web pages via tools such as Copernic Tracker, Website Watcher and WatchThatPage.com. Monitor every page of your competitor’s web site and specific keywords on pages, etc.
o Also, a good tool for tracking posts to user groups, message boards, forums and blog comments.

Helpful Short Cuts for Online Reputation Management:

* Create your own search engine at Rollyo.com. This is a great way to track sites that do not offer RSS feeds for keywords such as Consumerist.com, PlanetFeedback.com, ComplaintCenter.com, Complaints.com, Better Business Bureau and RipOffReport.com.

* Use Keotag.com to search for tagged blog posts across multiple blog search engines.

* Get a feel for stories that are creating “buzz” in the blogosphere via sites like Memeorandum.com and Blogniscient.com.

* Acquire an overview of blogger opinions (both negative and positive) via Opinmind.com, a blog search engine that allows you to type any subject into its search box.

* Learn about a specific blog’s traffic, credibility and popularity via PubSub.com, Alexa.com and IceRocket.com.

* Bloginfluence.net and Socialmeter.com show you the popularity and audience-reach for any entered blog URL. Use it to get a snapshot of the credibility of any blogger discussing your company.

* Research backgrounds of bloggers, owners of forums and web site editors via domain name search tools such as DomainTools.com and BetterWhois.com.

* Get creative with the classified search engine, Oodle.com. Search for job listings in your industry, then subscribe to the RSS feed. You’ll get an early alert of all the job listings your competitors’ post. Now you’ll know which areas of their business are expanding or get clues about potential new products, based upon who they are hiring.

* Not sure what keywords to track? Start entering your main “buzz” word at Google Suggest and see what’s most commonly searched. Or try Google Trends for the latest search query trends.

* Want to know what the blogosphere is saying about the page you’re viewing? Use the Technorati Favelet bookmark to quickly view inbound links and posts according to Technorati. If you use Firefox, install the Blogger Web Comments extension to see what users of Google’s Blogger have to say about the page.

* Need to know what news stories influenced your company’s stock price? The new Google Finance site let’s you analyze what stories appeared at any given stock price movement. Simply move the “slider”, located above the stock chart, and watch the stories on the right correlate with the date and time.

Overall Consumer Generated Media (CGM) Tips

* Investigate facts internally before taking action – could this be a competitor spreading rumor?
* Always take the high ground
* Be honest!
* Explain what you have done to rectify any issue
* Offer to resolve any complaints personally – have a senior-level staff member make the offer – try to continue discussion offline
* Rally friends, clients, peers and utilize your allies
* Don’t create new “personas” to support your position in blogs, forums and message boards as you’ll likely be caught

How to conduct outreach to CGM

Forums, user groups and message boards

* Task someone in-house with joining and participating in any applicable forums or user groups.
o When trouble strikes, impact will be reduced if someone from your organization is a regular contributor (has credibility already) and can voice your company’s side of the story.
* Consider sponsoring most influential forums.
o Less likely to see sustained criticism if you are a supporter/sponsor.
* Build alliances/partnerships with most vocal members.

Blogs

* Identify the author of the blog, read their profile.
o Who are they? Who do they work for?
* Read author’s previous work to get a feel for his/her “persona”
* Understand the threat level – How respected are they? What is their audience reach?

* If a blog post is factually incorrect:
o Ask for removal or retraction and send supporting evidence.
o Offer to keep blogger informed of future news – Google used this on me .
o If these outreach methods garner no response from the blog author, consider correcting the post in the comments section. This is a last resort – what you really want is correction/retraction.

* If blog post is true, but negative:
o Send your side of the story.
o Explain how you are addressing the situation.
o Add comment to post.
o Indicate your willingness to receive any email questions – take it offline.

Balancing Negative CGM

* If it’s true:
o Don’t ignore or hide
o Participate in the discussion and be honest
o Add response to your web site
o Issue statement addressing what has been done
o Engage crisis communication expert with CGM experience

* If it’s not true:
o Politely request blog, forum, news site owner remove or retract
o Consult a lawyer
o Contact other blog and forum owners with correct information
o Ask them to consider publishing your response
o Add statement to your website – work with a search engine optimization consultant to ensure all content has been optimized and will achieve top search rankings

Authored by online reputation management consultant Andy Beal, with assistance from Cindy Akus

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301 comments on “Free Online Reputation Management Beginner’s Guide”

rcjordan Says:

March 7th, 2006 at 5:33 pm

How to handle an a-lister’s libelous rant, Andy? For instance, I personally think (usual disclosure: I’m not a lawyer, they just do what I say …as long as I pay them, anyway.) that Dell likely had an actionable libel complaint against Jeff Jarvis / Buzzmachine a few months ago. It’s not easy to mount a rebuttal from the comment lines and the courtesans in attendance are likely to shout it down anyway. My guess is that Dell decided that retreating to the bunker was the best way to minimalize the negative impact.
Andy Beal Says:

March 7th, 2006 at 6:08 pm

What was Dell’s strategy before the rant? A key initiative is to embrace bloggers and build allies before something negative is posted. Trying to establish a voice after the conversation has started, is always difficult.
steven edward streight Says:

March 8th, 2006 at 1:40 am

Andy, first visit, linked from Web Pro News, your article on Walmart using cut and paste bloggers.

I am totally against buzz agents paid to spam or flame online forums, blogs, chat.

Your article covers many things, and it’s nice to have all this info in one post.

I’m going to do a post about this post, with my commentary on your statements here.

My first impression is mostly good, I feel like I’ve discovered a new blog to visit regularly.

But…I’m very critical and hard to please.

:&)
Andy Beal Says:

March 8th, 2006 at 8:48 am

Welcome to Marketing Pilgrim, Steven! Glad you found us.
HarryC Says:

March 8th, 2006 at 9:32 am

This is an outstanding post, full of great info and spot-on how-to.

The leit motif through all web presence is “be honest.” It’s quite amazing how simple statements of fact from an authority can deflate emotions and affect an immediate shift in attitude and point of view.

On the positive side, honesty builds trust and loyalty among customers.

What is the world coming to!!
Easton Ellsworth Says:

March 8th, 2006 at 10:48 am

Great tips. Several of these websites I did not know about … and I’m a blog network editor! Yeesh!
Marshall Kirkpatrick Says:

March 8th, 2006 at 12:35 pm

MonitorThis, http://uckan.info/depot/monitorthis/

creates an OPML file of 22 searches at once. That’s the way to do it.
Phil Gerbyshak Says:

March 9th, 2006 at 6:36 pm

Great tips Andy! Thanks for the solid advice.
Canadian Headhunter Says:

March 12th, 2006 at 8:48 pm

This post won a prize in the Posting of the Week contest at Recruiting.com
K T Cat Says:

March 13th, 2006 at 8:05 am

Thank you for a focused and informative post. I really appreciate the research and effort you put into this. So much of the marketing blogosphere is filled with feel-good balloon juice. This was a refreshing change. You can be sure that this blog has been added to my favorites.
Andy Beal Says:

March 13th, 2006 at 12:00 pm

Marshall, great tip, added to the the guide. Thanks!
WebMetricsGuru Says:

March 29th, 2006 at 1:09 am

I actually thought you were taking a tip from me (and I did not remember giving one on this) but it turned out to be from someone who had my first name and that’s all.

There’s a lot of great stuff -started looking at it last week to see how hard it would be to do all the things you mentioned and then wrote about in my blog webmetricsguru.com
par Says:

April 29th, 2006 at 10:10 am

Great tips. Several of these websites I did not know about … and I’m a blog network editor! Yeesh!
Anonymous Says:

May 20th, 2006 at 10:46 am

Wow Andy – this is fantastic! Thank you

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December 4th, 2006 at 12:12 am

Wow… I just found this post. Andy it is one of your very best posts!
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December 20th, 2006 at 6:10 pm

Andy, you rock for putting this together. I’ve only recently started rep tracking, and this is a great in-depth guide.
Andy Beal Says:

December 20th, 2006 at 9:47 pm

Thanks Justin, glad you like it!
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December 27th, 2006 at 7:30 am

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January 4th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

Andy, awesome. The most comprehensive post on Sentiment Analysis I have found so far. I like your definition, practical tips. Although not directly related to my job with AOL Search, I am a little obsessed with “Sentiment Analysis” these days and you contributed to it! Semantic categorization, linguistic-based data mining, user-authored content and the tail, advertisers realizing the importance of the web in terms of managing brand reputation and shifting dollars online should make 2007 a good year for SA. I’ll have to dissect your post in the coming days.

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January 4th, 2007 at 3:38 pm

Glad it helped Arnaud!
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August 14th, 2007 at 10:21 am

Really good tips for online reputation building.I’ve only recently started rep tracking, and this is a great in-depth guide.
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August 14th, 2007 at 6:29 pm

Lots of good information here. I wish people werent so bitter and posting false claims online, just to make themselves feel better. But they do and I think that shows how bitter they really are. But you offer great ways to challange their false claims. Thank you.
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September 7th, 2007 at 2:57 am

This is a very helpful post. I noticed however that you will have to sign up for separate sites for each purpose or help that you want to subscribe to. Do you know any tool, site or software that will help any web site owner or blogger measure all? I bet you understand how inconvenient it can be sometimes to check out a bunch of sites every hour just to check this and that.
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September 7th, 2007 at 2:12 pm

@Portrait artist – try this one http://www.distilled.co.uk/reputation/

or this one: http://www.serph.com/
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September 22nd, 2007 at 5:28 am

Great ideas . I am actually trying some of them .
I am posting articles and reviews and geting others to review my services on blogs and forums.
It really needs a lot of work and money and can be destroyed in minutes.
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Andy – just finding this – fantastic info and many thanks for putting this together.

Forwarding to the CEO and marketing / PR folks post haste! (pun intended)

Keep it coming!

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September 25th, 2007 at 9:48 am

Thanks Tim – don’t forget to pre-order my new book.

Link is at the top of the post.
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October 14th, 2007 at 4:46 pm

Nice little guide but (again me with the but word) you need to hire an entire team of people who will do this job for you. I don’t think that you could do this by yourself…

S.
Meteko Says:

October 21st, 2007 at 11:37 am

This will be a good guide for beginner like me, but i still do not know where to start. Could someone enlighten me?
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October 29th, 2007 at 7:28 am

Andy, you rock for putting this together. I’ve only recently started rep tracking, and this is a great in-depth guide…
Alex Rinsky Says:

November 1st, 2007 at 5:11 am

Free Online Reputation Management Beginner’s Guide

Andy, What a great article!

How about coming out with the “advance guide”?

Thanks.
the about Says:

November 1st, 2007 at 8:36 am

Andy, What a great article!
Thanks.
Andy Beal Says:

November 1st, 2007 at 9:23 am

@Alex – I’ve done better than, I’ve written a book with all the advanced stuff: http://www.amazon.com/Radically-Transparent-Monitoring-Managing-Reputa tions/dp/0470190825
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November 2nd, 2007 at 2:52 pm

Andy, I remember a company you used to work for that needed online reputation management (but that is another story). “Reputation Management” has a lot to do with “Setting Realistic, Deliverable, and Measurable Expectations” on both the seller and buyer side of the transactional equation
Andy Beal Says:

November 2nd, 2007 at 4:13 pm

@kitap – Where do you think I got so experienced at reputation management? I agree with you suggestion.
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November 3rd, 2007 at 1:49 pm

I thought answers and google talk should get more traffic..
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November 6th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

Nice post, I love the domaintools i use it all the time but thanks for better whois will see how it is. Have you tried psyhicwhois ? love that one as well for searching domain names.
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November 8th, 2007 at 11:24 am

This is a nice guide for proactive reputation management. Thnx.
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November 25th, 2007 at 11:28 pm

Great article Andy, love the tools and links!
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December 3rd, 2007 at 12:01 pm

That’s a pretty good article andy, lots of free ressource, thanks a lot. It sure isn’t easy to make sure you keep a good reputation online when you don’t know where to start.
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December 5th, 2007 at 11:23 am

thank you for a great resource!
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December 17th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

Great post Andy. At some point Individuals and companies really need to take information like this and get proactive about their online reps before they have a disastrous problem. Like for example – how many people who contact you regarding online reputation management services don’t alreay have a problem that needs to be cleaned up?
For me – one, I have had one organization contact me that did not already have a negative publicity problem on the internet. And this is such an area of vulnerability for almost everyone. It’s ridiculously easy to ruin a Company’s reputation on the internet. Even if you don’t have the time to ruin their reputation, you just need a budget of about – $100. With that money you can hire an offshore data entry guy for $5/hour to post multiple variations of negative information about company A on forums, blogs etc… Maybe one day in the near future their will be a better system for accountability on the internet. Anyways, thanks for the information. Great post.
- reputationHAWK
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February 5th, 2008 at 7:34 am

Great post dude…its really helpful for the people like me who are novice in the field of Online marketing…
Thanks
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Free Online Reputation Management Beginner’s Guide

Andy, What a great article!

How about coming out with the “advance guide”?
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February 15th, 2008 at 2:06 am

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February 17th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

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February 19th, 2008 at 5:19 am

Brilliant article. And a good example at the same time.
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February 19th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Just found this by way of watching your interview with Ralph Wilson on YouTube but want to compliment you. Great article Andy and thanks so much for providing the free PDF! I am going to post a link to this article on my blog and am happy to direct people to this excellent blog.
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February 19th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

@Rob – thanks, glad you made your way here.
@Oyun – check out my new book, it’s the advanced stuff!
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May 15th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

who said nothing in life is free, thanks for the guide Andy.

Some of the tips are presumably aimed at larger organisations, I’m not sure that all of us would have the resources to do hourly checks for example. Overall though, some great information, gratefully accepted.
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May 18th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

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May 21st, 2008 at 9:11 pm

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May 25th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

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May 28th, 2008 at 5:27 am

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May 29th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

It’s not just the big guys that have to watch for this. I did some reputation management work for a local developer. He had a couple of newspaper articles about him that really misconstrued the facts. They basically made it sound like he was dumping into a stream, which he was not. But because they were out there online they were easy for his opponents to link to.

Pretty soon every search under his name brought up something terrible sounding. This had a huge influence in our small community and eventually he gave up on developing the subdivision after putting millions into it.

We were able to push the bad information down to at least the second page.

The funny thing is that originally he didn’t realize he was being affected by it and after we did the reputation management work I don’t believe his opponents ever realized it had been done

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May 29th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

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June 7th, 2008 at 11:19 am

How is a beginner going to get all that done? I think its for a company that has been around for some time
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June 8th, 2008 at 6:19 am

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June 9th, 2008 at 11:42 am

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July 15th, 2008 at 8:20 am

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July 16th, 2008 at 3:50 am

There are only five chapters left for me to finish reading the book. It’s really great. I am planning to write my own version of the book, if that is okay with you Andy. Thank you.

Also, just to let you guys know that I am so lucky to be given a free book, Blogger: Beyond the Basics from PACKT Publishing.

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July 28th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

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July 30th, 2008 at 1:42 am

I am loving this post Andy! Thanks for the tips and the resources especially. Great to have it all bundled up into one page

-May-
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August 4th, 2008 at 1:22 am

Thanks for the guide. Great contents. I had a client who wanted my to write to Google and ask them to remove some negative reviews about his service. Good luck I said !
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August 4th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

This is true. As with all things, it can take so long to build but so quick to destroy. Just one bad line of products under your brand and your entire brand is placed under a question mark or ridiculed. A person only needs to have one bad experience to say they’ll never go back to that product ever again. Even if they get a life of brilliant service, one bad experience is often all it takes to lose them forever. It’s a horrible reality.
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August 10th, 2008 at 12:53 am

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August 17th, 2008 at 6:34 am

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August 23rd, 2008 at 1:38 am

Amazingly helpful, Andy. Must hire someone to do it all! One site I don’t see mentioned here and which I know to be used by a lot of recruiters, for instance, is Zoominfo. It collates web references and builds “identities”. I think I had about five when I first visited. I use it to show people how robots can construct your online identity just from various items, such as that you were once on a committee which had that info online, previous employment etc. Good news is you can open a free account there and sort it out pretty well, consolidating the multiples, separating out anything that belongs to a namesake, adding info to your profile. zoominfo.com

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August 23rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm

@Des – thanks for the suggestion. The reason I don’t recommend Zoominfo is that, if you are not careful, it will aggregate information from the web–including the negative items.
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August 23rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm

Andy – that’s certainly worth bearing in mind and I appreciate your making the point: I guess I was thinking not so much of the building of online reputation as of the prophylactic aspect – a lot of job seekers, for instance, probably don’t know about it so they don’t know what recruiters are finding about them and don’t know that they can fix much of the potential confusion.

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August 24th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

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Thanks

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August 25th, 2008 at 5:25 am

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August 28th, 2008 at 1:42 am

Does anyone know of a online reputation management service specifically for Australia?
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August 28th, 2008 at 2:23 am

@SydneyPRGal: Roger Christie at sefiani.com.au in Sydney is worth talking to 02 8920 0700 or if he’s not there (on leave this week) talk to Hugo. Tell ‘em I sent you – no, I’m not on a commission . For other companies/names, leave a note via contact at my site linked from my name here.

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August 28th, 2008 at 8:40 am

@Sydney PR Gal – email me if you need a recommendation.
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August 28th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

Google alerts work pretty well, but it would nice to get a weekly summary similar to the stats given in Google analytics.
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September 1st, 2008 at 11:28 am

Hi there, i want to thank you for the helpful post how to build a “clean” reputation not for only beginners but advanced internet users. Thanks again.
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September 1st, 2008 at 7:13 pm

I get a few calls each month asking how to get Google to remove unflattering blog posts from their index. I think it’s becoming more of a problem for many large businesses as the Internet becomes more and more democratic.

Blog owners have to be careful that blog comments from readers aren’t a legal liability. I’ve had two take-down requests as a result of blog comments on one of my blogs.

In both cases I deleted the comments without argument.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 11:31 am

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September 4th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

Winston Churchill’s famous quote, ” A lie gets half way around the world before the truth gets its pants on” exemplifies what is going on with companies and thier internet reputation.

When crap happens you can respond by either obfuscating, addressing it head on, and/or attempt to remove.

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September 4th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

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September 6th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

bloggers.

I am totally against buzz agents paid to spam or flame online forums, blogs, chat.

Your article covers many things, and it’s nice to have all this info in one post.

I’m going to do a post about this post, with my commentary on your statements here.

My first impression is mostly good, I feel like I’ve discovered a new blog to visit regularly.

But…I’m very critical and hard to please.
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September 11th, 2008 at 4:18 am

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September 30th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

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October 29th, 2008 at 5:19 pm

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November 11th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

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November 28th, 2008 at 9:13 am

@Pweng – glad you liked it!
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November 30th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

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December 19th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

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