Category Archives: Reputation Monitoring

Wednesday, 03 March 2010

Social Media Optimization: Facebook Pages Now More Important than Ever in Google Search

This week, Facebook Pages (typically created by businesses, organizations and artists) have started to appear in Google search results. With this highly anticipated move, it’s more important than ever to include Facebook as a vital part of your social media optimization (SMO) and SEO campaigns.
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Saturday, 24 October 2009

Your Tweets on Google: 3 Things Every Company Should Do Right Now

As a result of separate deals with search giant Google and upstart Bing, Twitter feeds are coming to a search engine near you. Even as Twitter struggles with monetizing its service and holding spam down to acceptable levels, it has achieved search marketing value as search engines vie to be kings of the "real time Web."
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009

What Google’s Sidewiki Means for Corporate Reputation Management – Part II

In our last post, we discussed how Google's Sidewiki launch has sent corporate anxiety regarding brand management and PR off the charts. Today we’ll offer some tips for managing and monitoring Sidewiki.
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Saturday, 17 October 2009

What Google’s Sidewiki Means for Corporate Reputation Management – Part I

“You are surrounded. Come out with your hands up. We are in complete control of your brand. Resistance is futile.” No, this isn’t a direct quote from a legion of tech-savvy consumers. But it expresses the fears of businesses everywhere since Google debuted Sidewiki as a part of its browser toolbar several weeks ago.
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Thursday, 03 September 2009

Google Bomb: What Every Business (and Marketer) Should Know About Reputation Management and “Authority”

Sue Scheff, founder of child and parenting advocacy organization PURE, was astonished when someone began attacking her reputation online. Scheff’s attacker posted comments on numerous Web forums in which Scheff was labled a “con artist,” leading to a lawsuit in which Sheff won $11.3 million.
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009

Using Social Media to Create Mobile App Buzz

Nobody knows precisely how many iPhone apps there are. This is because aside from the tens of thousands of apps on the iPhone app store, Apple rejects an untold number of apps each week. The reasons for rejection are numerous, ranging from piracy concerns to functionality that duplicates something offered natively on the iPhone.
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Friday, 28 August 2009

Brazen Careerist Social Networking site is Brazen Indeed

In the past two years, millions of less-than-secure professionals have taken to LinkedIn to expand their networks, join professional groups and beef up their resumes. Meanwhile, the LinkedIn app has been one of the fastest-growing Facebook apps as well, signaling an increasingly blurry line between professional and personal lives.
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