Reputation Management is becoming an indispensable tactic for controlling online complaints and reviews for businesses and individuals across the web. Reputation Management is the process of building and repairing your online reputation and responding to negative press, blogs, bad online feedback, bad consumer reviews, online complaints, and unfounded scam allegations.

Has your name or business name been the victim of online defamation or unfounded internet complaints? There is a company called ReputationLion.com that can help you control what search engines like Google show about your name on the top search results pages.

Reputation Lion uses search engine optimization techniques to gradually push positive information about you or your company up higher on search engines to help shield and protect your name and reputation on the web. Most Reputation Management campaigns are about manipulation how search engines rank the negative links about your name or business.

If your goal is to use reputation management to displace or push negative links further down search results and off of the first few pages of search engine results, then Reputation Lion will arrange and administer a reverse search engine optimization campaign and online reputation management campaign. This is where we create new content and promote existing pages about you or your company in an effort to push down the negative pages about you.

With most Reputation Management campaigns Reputation Lion makes use of a plethora of web properties, blogs, social media sites, new domain names/micro sites, and PR Outlets to help saturate Google and other search engines with new keyword rich optimized content about you or your brand. After creating content it is time to promote the new content with offsite optimization tactics such as link building and PR campaigns for each web property.

On common problem site that small businesses and individuals find themselves listed on is RipOff Report. It seems that RipOff Report hates Reputation Management Firms and for good reason. Successful Reputation Management services like Reputation Lion makes their website (RipOff Report) weaker and rank lower in search results.

Many  businesses and professionals that are listed on Ripoff Report are shocked to see that the ripoff report link about them ranks on page one of Google when someone searches their name or business name. Reputation Management can help Remove Ripoff Report from the top of Google and other search engine results.

Other online complaint sites and review sites that businesses can end up on in a negative way include CompalintsBoard, Yelp, PissedConsumer, Scam.com, and many others. Reputation Lion has Reputation Management tactics in place to deal with each one of these complaint sites individually and can assist you and your business with removal of negative content and displacement of negative content.

If you or your business needs help with online reputation management, Reputation Lion offers free consultations by phone or email. When you are ready to control what type of information shows up on the first few pages of Google about your name or business, contact Reputation Lion for online reputation management services. You can reach Reputation Lion by Phone at 1-202-599-8448

ReputationLion Reputation Management Service emerges from the Reputation Management and SEO industry to offer Reputation Management Services to businesses and individuals.

The Northern Virginia (Washington DC Area) Reputation Management outfit ReputationLion.com is the culmination of a handful of reputation management and seo experts teaming up to create an aggressive Reputation Management Solutions Firm that can deal with any online reputation management issue you are facing.

The new website is simple on the front end but is powered by some of the brightest and most creative minds in the industry. The Reputation Management industry started becoming popular back in 2007-2008 and the proprietors of ReputationLion were there even before that.

In 2004 one of the partners recognized the need for this type f service and launched an Online Reputation Management campaign for a family members business that was the target of a media smear. After successfully saving the family members online businesses reputation, he went back to internet marketing and doing the backend reputation management work for several large reputation management firms.

“Now the time is right for us to help the end user” said the ReputationLion.com team, and ReputationLion says that “the reputation management industry is still strong and will continue to grow; we have the hopes of helping a lot of people and businesses with our skill set.”

Reputation Management is tricky sometimes but there is nothing that the ReputationLion team has not seen. They have helped remove images, ripoff report, complaintsboard, scam.com, YouTube Videos, Recover Domain Names, Remove Images from websites and search results, and has even had a couple of complaint sites completely shut down by ISP’s.

For more information about ReputationLion and their Reputation Management Services contact them at – 202-599-8448

Stop HR 3261 (SOPA) and S 968 (PIPA) Internet Blacklist Bills

Congress needs to hear from you, or these dangerous bills will pass – they have tremendous lobbying dollars behind them, from large corporations reportedly hoping to prop up outdated, anti-consumer business models at the expense of the very fabric of the Internet — recklessly unleashing a tsunami of take-down notices and litigation, and a Pandora’s jar of “chilling effects” and other unintended (or perhaps intended?) consequences.

Please let your Members of Congress know you OPPOSE H.R. 3621 “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) and S. 968 “Protect IP Act” (PIPA):

• Phone, yes phone your Member of Congress! (House) (Senate)
• EFF Congressional Emailer – Oppose Internet Blacklisting (SOPA & PIPA)
• OpenCongress Congressional Emailer – Oppose SOPA
• Generic Congressional Emailer (You’ll need your Zip+4)

Learn more about SOPA, Protect IP (PIPA), and Internet Blacklisting:

• Growing Chorus of Opposition to SOPA
• Open Letter against SOPA from 83 Prominent Internet Engineers
• Why SOPA and Protect IP (PIPA) are Bad, Bad Ideas (Techdirt)
• SOPA News (Google News)
• SOPA Wikipedia entry
• SOPA FAQ (CNET)

Internet Giants Consider Blackout Against SOPA!

Where does your Member of Congress stand on SOPA? (Project SOPA Opera)

Opponents of SOPA: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, eBay, AOL, Mozilla, Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy, Zynga, EFF, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Ron Paul (R-TX)

Supporters of SOPA: RIAA, MPAA, News Corporation, VISA, Mastercard, Pfizer, Comcast, Time Warner, ABC, Nike, Walmart, Dow Chemical, Tiffany, Chanel, Rolex, Monster Cable, Teamsters, Lamar Smith (R-TX), John Conyers (D-MI)

Read It Here: http://www.seofriendly.com/hacking-ripoff-report-reputation-management-style/

For over the past few years there have been thousands of business and individuals trying to figure out a way to make ripoffreport.com links about them not rank high on Google and other search engines. Reputation management was and still is the most common solution for having these nasty links rank lower. Reputation management firms like Reputation.com (Reputation Defender) and ReputationArmor.com (Reputation Armor) use social media, profiles, blog posts, domain names, press releases, fresh content and search engine optimization to basically bury (hide) the negative links deeper within search engine result pages.

Read The Full Story: http://www.seofriendly.com/hacking-ripoff-report-reputation-management-style/ 

Up until a few weeks ago there was another way to remove ripoff reports from search engines completely, that is until RipoffReport.com and it’s owner Ed Magedson discovered a glitch in there own website that was allowing extremely internet savvy computer geeks and “black hat” reputation management firms to insert a small string of html code in the name and title fields of the website when creating an account. This code was not visible to ripoff report and the code was a simple “noindex” code that told search engines like Google not to allow the page with this code on it to appear on search engines at all.

 Read It Here: http://www.seofriendly.com/hacking-ripoff-report-reputation-management-style/

Hacking RipOffReport.com

For over the past few years there have been thousands of business and individuals trying to figure out a way to make ripoffreport.com links about them not rank high on Google and other search engines. Reputation management was and still is the most common solution for having these nasty links rank lower. Reputation management firms like Reputation.com (Reputation Defender) and ReputationArmor.com (Reputation Armor) use social media, profiles, blog posts, domain names, press releases, fresh content and search engine optimization to basically bury (hide) the negative links deeper within search engine result pages.

Up until a few weeks ago there was another way to remove ripoff reports from search engines completely, that is until RipoffReport.com and it’s owner Ed Magedson discovered a glitch in there own website that was allowing extremely internet savvy computer geeks and “black hat” reputation management firms to insert a small string of html code in the name and title fields of the website when creating an account. This code was not visible to ripoff report and the code was a simple “noindex” code that told search engines like Google not to allow the page with this code on it to appear on search engines at all.

Here is an example of the code:
meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”

In order for this code to work you had to make an account at ripoff report and go to your account profile where you manage your name and location. You could simply copy & paste that code behind your display name field. After this, the last step was to make a comment on the ripoff report you wanted to disappear. Within a few days (up to 30), when Google “Re-Crawled” that page, they would see the code telling them not to index it and presto the ripoff report was off the search engine.

Reputation management firms and SEO firms were offering a service that claims to “Remove RipOff Reports” completely from search engines within 30 days or less. Businesses pay thousands of dollars to have these links removed and buried and normally thousands of dollars is warranted because it takes a lot of content, work, and money to actually bury a bad link as strong as RipOff Report. However, the “code injection method” only took a few minutes to implement and was very easy to do. Firms offering this service were making a killing! The service fees were basically 100% profit.

Now all of the people that signed up for this type of service involving the “magic fix” are back in line waiting for anther way to remove the ripoff links about them, thanks to the bug being fixed by Ed Magedson and his team of Consumer Advocate Crusaders. 

Not only are all the ripoff reports about people that used the “code injection” back, they are ranking stronger than ever!

Looks like it is back to good old reputation management techniques for firms like Reputation Armor and Reputation.com!

ReputationArmor.com commented to us about the code and said they were unaware of such a code and have never used it, also saying that had they known about it they would have been tempted to use it on behalf off their clients. Reputation Armor says they use good quality content and search engine optimization methods to out rank negative links for clients and such “quick fixes” are in most cases short-term anyway.

A Reputation.com (Reputation Defender) representative from the sales dept. named “KC” or “Casey”, stated he was not aware of such a code and went on to say: “We use a Blunt force approach, where we use positive content, there is no technology to make ripoff reports disappear like that, that I am aware of.”

Although this sales representative was unaware of such tactics, we were unable to reach anyone in the department to answer that question. We called at 9:30 AM EST and that was too early for the West Coast reputation firm to have someone more qualified for us to talk with.

We discover this bug from an email sent to us from a client of a Reputation Firm that used the tactic and is now looking for a similar solution. There seem to be a lot of these firms’ clients looking for answers. In no way are we stating that Reputation Armor or Reputation.com used this code or even knew about it, we cite them because of their strong presence in the Reputation Management industry.

If you have any information on the “Bug” or if you represent RipOff Report we would love to hear more about this. Please leave a comment and tell us the scoop!

Online Reputation Management is becoming one of the most popular SEO related services online today. With hundreds of Reviews sites, thousands of complaint sites, millions of blogs & forums, there are countless ways a consumer to vent their anger about a business or service online. All of these facts make it inevitable that a business will at some point have online complaints or bad reviews that rank high on Google. From local pet stores to online dating services, no business is immune to bad online reviews.

Since online review sites are not held liable for content a user posts to their site (per the Communications Decency Act Sec. 230), it is nearly impossible to force websites to remove bad content that a user posts. The best option for anyone facing bad reviews online that rank high is to bury the offending web links deeper within search engine results. To do this one must launch a reverse search engine optimization campaign (Online Reputation Management).

By creating new content (web pages) and promoting existing content about the company or individual, and using SEO tactics like link building, you will be able to manipulate Google and other search engine results, making the Good links go above the Bad links.

Link Building is one of the most important ingredients to a successful Reputation Management and SEO campaign.  Link building is the process in which you go and obtain back links to your web pages and websites. Back links are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of back links is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page.

It is important to use proper anchor text when building links. Anchor Text is the word or phrase linked to your URL, or web page. This text defines the page that it links to, both for human eyes and for search engines. Ideally you will use the phrase you most want that web page to rank well for in the major search engines, and also a phrase that compels real people to click through and read the page.

As an example, this is Anchor Text: Blog Posting Service. That phrase tells Google that the page is all about Blog Posting Services. Using this phrase as the Anchor Text makes this page more likely to rank for that phrase.

There are many ways to obtain back links for the purpose of link building. One of the most popular ways is to use a link building service. A link building service will help you obtain quality back links that will help you boost your websites popularity and strength. For more information on link building check out some link building tips blogs online.

Did you know that dozens of Reputation Management Firms utilize blog posting services like BlogPostingNetwork.com to help their clients bury negative information found on Google and other search engines like Yahoo, and Bing?

It is a fact that some blogs will rank high for your name and business name by placing your name or company name in the title and within the body of the blog post. Not only will blogs rank high for your name they will also push up sites that you link to from within the blog. If you are trying to push up a page about your name or business then you would want to link from YOUR NAME to a site about you that you would want to push above other links (This is called anchor text). Anchor text is basically the word you link from.

Reputation Management is a very expensive service and sometimes a blog posting service is all you need to help yourself. Then again a blog posting campaign may not be strong enough to bury certain links. If you have hired a reputation management company you could mention BlogPostingNetwork.com to them as they may be able to compliment the work the Reputation management firms are doing for you.

Online reputation management is commonly used to: Remove RipOff Reports – Remove Compaintsboard, Remove Online Complaints, Remove Reviews, and Remove Bad Press.

Reputation management is usually used to bury negative links about a business or individual. If you have negative links ranking high on search results, a blog posting campaign will help you fight the negative links by creating hundreds of “Good” pages of content about you.

Blog posts are the #1 way to generate high quality low cost content that will almost always rank well on Google or help other links make there way above other links.

Well it looks like Google is doing some Google ToolBar PageRank Updates. A lot of my domains have see some positive changes today, however this one (seofriendly) dropped from PR3 to PR1… No big deal. Google toolbar PR does NOT necessarily correlate with how high you rank or how much traffic you get.

It seems like it has been months if not a year since Google did  huge pagerank update. Many of my sites get pagerank updates each month it seems, so I am always interested in seeing a major update like I am seeing today.

Anyone else seeing any major changes?

Rip Off Report (RipOffReport.com) has been online for over 12 years and is one of the fastest growing online complaint sites for consumers to file complaints against businesses and/or individuals. The site has a no removal policy of complaints filed, even if the original author requests a complaint be removed.

The ripoff report site allows businesses to post rebuttals to complaints but this causes the complaints to rank higher on search engines like Google and Yahoo. Most businesses and individuals do not want the negative link about them ranking on the first page of Google. Even if the complaint is not a real bad one, simply having your name or business name show up with the words scam, complaint, or rip off beside it will make people think twice about doing business with you.

RipOff Report has been criticized in the media for several years because of their policy not to remove complaints. The site has also drawn fire from thousands of businesses and individuals because the owner of rip off report (Ed Magedson) allegedly accepts payments from business ranging from $2500-$25000 to “remove the complaints”, however they never remove them, they only post a statement above the complaint that makes the complaint look less damaging. The complaint will still rank on Google and will still get traffic. They mask this service under the once named “Consumer Advocacy Program” or now called the Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration Program. Rip off reports claims that reputation management and repair is not effective and maybe this is an indicator of why EVERY reputation management firm that is worth knowing is listed on rip off report. Could it be that Ed Magedson and ripoff report is targeting the reputation management industry because the industry is the most threatening to his sites revenue and effectiveness?

Online reputation management and repair is a very effective process that will make online complaints less damaging and in some cases disappear from search results. There are dozens of reputation management firms online of which most are copycat companies that preceded the likes of Reputation Defender, Reputation Armor, and Reputation Hawk, which are the three companies that founded the reputation management industry.

Reputation management companies use a tactic called reverse search engine optimization to basically bury the online complaints. Some companies also offer mediation to have the offensive links and complaints deleted completely. To date there is no way to force websites like RipOff Report to remove complaints no matter how erroneous they are, regardless of what any snake oil salesmen or attorney tells you! Ripoff report and sites of their nature are protected under a law called the Communications Decency Act (CDA Sec. 230) which was enacted in 1996. The law protects internet service providers from user generated content, in other words if a member or user of a website posts offensive material or text, the website owner is not liable or responsible for the content.

Hiring an attorney to help you with RipOff Report removal is usually a waste of time. Not even the best attorney in your area can likely force ripoff report to remove a complaint. To date no one has won a major lawsuit against rip off report. If your goal is to make the rip off report links less damaging to your business and make them harder for potential client to find, a Reputation Management campaign is something worth looking in to.