Online Reputation Management Tips

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.

• Blogger.com/Blogspot.com - Report a Terms of Service Violation.
• TypePad.com - here you can: report a Terms of Service violation.
• WordPress.com - contact WordPress Support to report a problem.
• LiveJournal.com - use the LiveJournal Report Abuse form whether you’re a LiveJournal user or not.

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.

Remove Rip Off Reports From Google

Forcing RipOffReport.com (Ed magedson) to remove a rip off report from the Rip Off Report website is nearly impossible. The website clearly states that they “Never Remove Complaints, Even if the person who filed the complaint requests it”. Not so fair if you ask me!

So how do these reputation management companies remove rip off reports? They in fact remove them from the top of Google’s search results, not from the rip off report website. The reality is that most rip off reports are revealed when people search for you or your company name on Google.

I do not believe or suspect that many consumers go directly to rip-off reports website and search company names on there. Most people go directly to Google to do research on people, companies, products and services. Google is the biggest reputation engine in the world! If you have harmful information showing up on Google about you, then you will need to launch a full scale reputation management campaign to fix the issue. The fix or remedy would be to push the negative links down the search results. The goal is to replace the negative information with positive information.

A few tips on how to Remove Rip Off Reports from the top of Google:

Create Online Profiles: Use sites like linkedin, FaceBook, Portfolio, Bolt, and others to create highly visible online social profiles. Always use the name you are trying to repair as the name and/or title.

Create A Blog (or 2): Create free blogs or your own hosted blog. Use the easy to use WordPress blogging platform or others to create keyword rich blogs and submit them to Google.

Register Domains: If you do not own “YourName (DotCom)” then you need to hurry and buy it before someone else does. Install a one page mini-site or a blog on the domain. Also register all TLD’s like .net, .org, .us, .biz, and others. Use all of the keyword rich domain names to your advantage.

Create Forum Accounts: Sign-up for as many forum accounts, use your name as the username and make a few posts on the topics you read. Utilize the signature feature most forums have. Add links to your blog in your signature. Always link from your name as the anchor text.

Promote Your Content: After you get all of your new profiles, mini-sites, and blogs up and running, it is time to promote them with strong SEO techniques. Use backlinks (get other sites to link to yours), add your blog url (link) to your online profiles and other sites link to one of your sites from all of the other ones to create one-way links. You can also buy links from other blogs to get some link juice!

These are basic tips that may help you. Remember there are many other methods and techniques that can be used. If you need assistance or have any questions let us know by posting a comment.