http://www.search-engine-deoptimization.com Why Search Engine Deoptimization Works Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:48:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Personal reputation management is a relatively new industry that has sprung up in response to frequent online libeling and defamation of others. The Internet's relatively anarchic state means that people can pretty much say whatever they want and suffer no negative repercussions because of it. Few suits about online defamation ... http://www.search-engine-deoptimization.com/defending-against-online-libel/ Mashable is a great blog that often covers issues of importance to the reputation risk management industry. The article, linked below, gives three tips for managing your online reputation. The excerpted is part of number two: Although it’s a good idea to ask people to remove embarrassing content about you, in ... http://www.search-engine-deoptimization.com/mashable-on-three-great-tips-for-orm/ The importance of social networking sites to personal reputation management cannot be emphasized enough. These sites drive traffic and command top spots in search engine results. More importantly, they often have to do with you, yes you. This means they are immediately important to virtually everyone, in both good and ... http://www.search-engine-deoptimization.com/the-power-of-social-media/ Unvarnished is a new website that builds on an old idea. Unvarnished is to individuals what Yelp is to businesses--which is to say, it allows strangers to review individuals. There is a question raging over the website, though, about whether it will simply become an instrument for malcontents, or serve ... http://www.search-engine-deoptimization.com/an-unvarnished-controversy/ Every couple of months we get a new survey which illuminates just how under-appreciated the industry of web reputation management is. The numbers are more shocking this time than at any time in the past, amazingly. according to a recent survey of 1100 hiring managers, 70% of U.S. companies say they ... http://www.search-engine-deoptimization.com/under-appreciation/ Roseanne Barr has made statements that make even the craziest of people say, "Uhhh, that's nuts". Roseanne Barr is in some hot water over her comments regarding Marie Osmond's son, who recently committed suicide. "How sickening. I know so many Mormon kids who were gay and committed suicide, and I just ... http://www.search-engine-deoptimization.com/roseanne-barr-goes-after-the-mormon-church/ Attorney Dimitrios Biller is a nightmare for Toyota right now. By now, anyone who is following the news has heard that Toyota has had to make a major recall which has damaged their image, as well as their bottom line, badly.So why do they need to fear a lawyer on ... http://www.search-engine-deoptimization.com/the-new-nader/ Employers are now admitting that they often Google applicants' names in order to unearth extra information about them that they might not get in an interview. If your facebook has statuses of you mouthing off about how drunk you got, or how you're "bored at work", you can kiss that ... http://www.search-engine-deoptimization.com/megan-and-her-reputation/ This article at GetElastic gives some very good pointers concerning how to find a good reputation manager. The author clearly has done this a time or two and knows the ins-and-outs of the industry fairly well. The article also speaks to the many hats that reputation managers must wear. Depending on ... http://www.search-engine-deoptimization.com/how-to-find/ Message to Southwest: Don't screw with Kevin Smith. The famed director of movies like Clerks and Dogma was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight, supposedly for being "too fat to fly", though Mr. Smith says the company admitted to him that that was not the reason at all. At any ... http://www.search-engine-deoptimization.com/hell-hath-no-fury-like-kevin-smith-scorned/