Managing your online reputation is very important to all business. It doesn’t matter if you are an online “Internet Based” business or a traditional offline retail establishment. The internet can create success for you, or disaster. The worse thing you can do is ignore your online reputation and have the “It won’t happen to me” mind-set.
There are many types of internet complaints and negative items that can affect your online reputation. There are dozens of online complaint sites where consumers can file complaints against businesses.
Rip Of Reports:
The most popular complaint site is RipOffReport.com – Having a rip off report is a nightmare. Online complaints on Rip Off Report rank very high on search engines, especially Google. There are many tactics to “removing” a rip off report from the top of search results. It is nearly impossible to MAKE or FORCE rip off report to delete a complaint from their website. The best option is to hire a reputation management company to help you: remove rip off reports.
Remove Blog Complaints and Negative Blogs About You:
A growing problem is also blogs like BlogSpot/Blogger and other free blogging platforms like typepad.com and LiveJournal.com. Anyone can create a free account with them and start a blog that is merely a smear campaign blog against you. It can be hard to get these negative blogs removed. Many blogs like these gave a form or contact form you can use to report abuse. Below are a few popular sites and links to contact them. When you contact them let them know you mean business, but do it in a nice way. It is not the blog provider’s fault someone is pissed off at you.
Those are just a few tips and resources on removing negative information from the internet. As always, being proactive when it comes to reputation management is always the best policy. If you do not piss people off, they should not complain about you or your company (In Most Cases). Great customer service will normally thwart online complaints.
Great info – I have been dealing with removing a rip off report issue and this helps a lot.
RipOffReport.com is a useful tool for consumers because it gives them the opportunity to air grievances against unscrupulous companies that take advantage of them.