This document discusses proactive online reputation management. It begins by defining online reputation management and explaining why it is needed. Specifically, it provides examples of individuals and businesses that have negative search results affecting their reputation. The document then recommends several proactive steps to take, including checking search results and autocomplete values, claiming social media profiles, buying relevant domains, adding positive reviews and monitoring social media for mentions. It emphasizes the importance of prevention over having to address reputation issues reactively.
5. A Personal Online Reputation
Management (ORM) Problem
Meet Carl Oliveri. CPA, MBA, Husband, and accused cheater on
According to Google Search Results This
Winner has been with his wife for many
years. And has cheated on her for about
as long
Is it true? Who knows, but it ranks #5 in Google for his name.
6. A Business ORM Problem
6 of the Top 10
results for a
search of LAX
Airport are
currently about
a negative
event
10. Check The Search Engine Results For Your
Airport, Products, and Brands
Pro Tip: Use this URL string in a private browser window to retrieve Google search
results that are neither personalized nor location specific:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=keywords+go+here&gl=us
11. Check Your Autocomplete Values
You can view the top 10 results for a phrase
in Google Autocomplete using an
undocumented Google API.
Use UberSuggest.org & gofishdigital.com/blog/autocomplete
to review your Autocomplete values.
12. Check The Complaint
& Review Sites
See gofishdigital.com/blog/complaint-search
for a tool that searches over 40 complaint
sites.
14. Register Social Media Profiles
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Quora, Flickr, YouTube, everything
else
KnowEm.com will register your name on 300 social media
sites for $600 (smaller plans available).
16. Structure Your Website Properly
Help Google and other search engines identify
which social profiles are yours.
Anchor text to social profiles on your website
should be:
[Brand Name] on [Social Network] (e.g. LAX on
Twitter)
17. Buy Domains
Buy YourName.com or something close. Snatch up
other TLDs like .com, .net, .me, etc
Consider buying 10 or so modified versions of your
domain, for example:
AirportCrash.com (so nobody else does)
AirportReviews.com
This slide sponsored by:
AirportNews.com, etc.
AirportFoundation.com
AirportBlog.com
AirportJobs.com, etc.
20. Stockpile Positive Reviews
Dos
Donts
Ask for Reviews Its like asking a Incentivize or reward reviewers
customer to tell a friend about
us
Go crazy setting up fake accounts
to create fake reviews
Thank and engage everyone who
leaves a review
Argue publicly with any negative
reviewers
On Yelp, friend/like/follow
positive reviewers
21. Listen for Mentions on Social Media
Todays Twitter complaint can become tomorrows
ComplaintsBoard.com rant. Catch both negative
and positive mentions in real-time.
There are plenty of free and paid social media monitoring
tools. Our recommendations Free: Trackur, Paid: UberVu