
How to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile
/Learn how to optimize your LinkedIn profile and build a resume that puts your success in your hands. Millions of people search LinkedIn daily to find valuable information on people, perform research and background checks before hiring someone, and increase their personal and business outreach. For all of these reasons, you need to ensure that […]
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5 Ways to Protect and Manage Your Online Reputation
/The web can be a dangerous place. Protect yourself and learn how to manage your online reputation before it’s too late. How many people are searching for your personal name, brand or business online? Even more important than how many people are searching your name, is what they are going to find! Controlling what other […]
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How to Use Hashtags (Without Ruining Your Reputation)
/A hashtag (which is, in essence, a keyword with a # in front of it) is designed to help expand your reach on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Knowing how to use hashtags is essential to optimizing your online reach. When you use a hashtag, the computers that run these social media sites […]
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Image Reputation Management: Your Secret Weapon
/A little image reputation management can go a long way to cleaning up your online image. It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. That’s especially true on Google. Just look at how many photographs of wee dogs come up on a simple search for the term “Boston terrier.” Little puppy faces […]
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Give to Receive: How Volunteering Can Boost Your Reputation
/Volunteering has obvious benefits for those in need. But what can it do for your online image? Learn how volunteering can boost your reputation and help create a winning brand online. Between September of 2012 and September of 2013, about 62.6 million Americans volunteered their time at least once, according to the United States Department […]
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3 Ways to Best Protect Your Online Image
/Learn how to protect your online image and achieve the peace of mind you deserve. Protecting your online image is not only one of the most important ways to build a trustworthy brand online, it’s something that should also be on your daily radar. In this post, we are going to cover three of the […]
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How to Shop for the Holidays While Protecting Your Online Identity
/Doing some yuletide shopping online this season? Learn how to fill out that shopping list while protecting your online identity at the same time. We are in the midst of the busiest shopping season of the year for both brick and mortar and online retailers. Each year, these retailers are on edge to perform and […]
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Business Reputation Management Services You Should Consider
/Get the skinny on our top business reputation management services and how they can help you thrive online. No matter what kind of business your run, there is no protection from angry customers, slander, bad reviews and even attempts from your competitors to tarnish your brand. Unfortunately, that is the type of world we live […]
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5 Steps to Repair the Damage and Fix Your Online Reputation
/Is an online crisis tearing down your good name? Learn how to pick up the pieces and take steps to fix your online reputation today. Sometimes, a company’s reputation reaches the point which I call “critical mass.” Critical mass happens when there are so many negative reviews, social media comments, blog posts and websites about a company […]
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5 Benefits of Guest Blogging and How It Can Help Your Reputation
/If you’ve read even one article about the benefits of guest blogging in recent years, it’s likely that you believe the practice isn’t worth your time. That’s because Matt Cutts, a top Google employee at the time, wrote an influential blog post back in 2014 in which he said that the practice was typically associated […]
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Protecting Your Online Reputation with a Blog
/Protecting your online reputation has everything to do with building a protective wall around your name or brand. It’s almost important to remember that your online reputation has a lot more to do with what your competition might say about you, then any potential negative press or angry customers might have to say as well. […]
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How to Manage Your Twitter Profile and Protect Your Online Brand
/Learn how to manage your Twitter profile and build a firewall around your online brand. Today isn’t a great day to be Bill Cosby’s social media marketing manager. In fact, it’s likely that the person who is holding that title is having the worst day ever. Why? Because that person is responsible for a Twitter […]
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How to Use Social Media to Protect Your Online Reputation
/In our latest post, we explore how to use social media to strengthen your image and generate a positive online footprint that gets results. When it comes to the importance of your online reputation and what people find when they search for your name in the search results, nothing else really comes close. A simple […]
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Top 5 Reasons to Monitor Your Information Online
/Why should you monitor your information online? While the internet can be a fun and beneficial place, it can also be a haven for disaster and fraudulent activities as well. Even if you aren’t actively using torrents, spam or questionable sites, your personal data and information could be at risk. This is why we at […]
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A 5-Day Action Plan to Build Your Online Image
/Our Reputation Repair experts offer a day-to-day action plan to help build your online image and create a stronger presence online. In the same amount of time it takes for you to make and drink a decent cup of coffee, you could help to boost your online reputation. It’s true. By setting aside somewhere between […]
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To Blog or Not to Blog on LinkedIn: That Is a Great Question
/Is it worth it to blog on LinkedIn? Does it make a difference for your online reputation? When you think about LinkedIn, you probably think about finding a job. This is the site you’d use in order to research openings in your field, chit-chat with other people about the companies they work for or otherwise […]
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3 Ways You Can Use Email to Enhance Your Online Reputation
/Want to enhance your online reputation? Email can be a powerful reputation management tool. You already know your company’s opt-in e-mail list is an excellent tool for marketing your business. Did you know it can help you enhance your online reputation, too? Your email list can serve your reputation because it’s a method for communicating […]
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The Hidden Web Copy Threats to Your Online Reputation
/Learn about hidden threats to your online reputation before it’s too late. You already know that watching what you say and watching what you do are both important ways to protect your reputation. But did you know that your business can be equally harmed by the things you don’t say or do? You see, most […]
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How to Respond to a Bad Restaurant Review
/Is one bad review hurting your local diner? Learn how to respond to a negative restaurant review and turn things around today. Union Street Guest House in New York recently made news by handling an attack on their reputation in all the wrong ways. They tried fining members of a wedding party $500 per negative […]
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Improve Your Brand Presence Online with Local Business Listings
/Learn how small business listings can help improve your brand presence online. So much of SEO has to do with search engines, and most people think globally when trying to manipulate results in their favor. However, what many people don’t know is that local business listings can seriously enhance your online presence. If you’re a […]
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Google Crawling: How to Understand Google Crawl Rank
/Confused about Google crawling? Here’s a helpful guide for understanding Google crawl rank and how to optimize your visibility on local search pages. One of the most closely guarded secrets on the web is Google crawl link, or how the search engine ranks links and webpages on local results pages. This makes perfect sense because […]
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Online Censorship or Privacy Protection? Making Sense of Recent Events
/Does the public’s need for information trounce a person’s right to privacy? Does fixing search results amount to online censorship? These are questions all reputation management companies grapple with on a daily basis. And often, answering these questions means bumping right up against search engines like Google. These companies want to keep everything nice and […]
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European Google Privacy Ruling: Could it Happen Here?
/What is the European Google Privacy Ruling? The recent European Google privacy ruling (Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González) could have far-reaching ramifications for some search engines along with various other websites. Basically, the courts ruled in a case against Google that they had to take […]
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Reputation Takeaway from the Donald Sterling Fallout: Privacy is Dead
/Most people draw a sharp line between the way they behave in private and the way they interact with the public. I might wander around my house in my pajamas, for example, but I’ll spiff up with a skirt when I head out to see a show. I know the things I do in my […]
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