A site's poor online reputation can be commercially devastating if not handled properly. Yet, a successful online reputation management campaign can be an easy win compared to the effort it takes to run a successful SEO campaign. In this session, the audience will learn about what factors make up a site's online reputation, how to identify existing and potential issues and what steps can be taken to present yourself to your potential customers in the best light.
2. What ranks for the brand name/ brand +
review / other related searches
What ranks for key business people’s names
What Google suggests for brand related
searches
What unrelated keywords the site ranks for
Usually, all but #1 are ignored by site owners
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3. Any publicity is good publicity? – maybe not
for conversions
(According to a survey by Dimensional Research)
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4. Review sites
News stories
Images
Forum discussions
Social media mentions
Affiliate sites, fans/haters sites, competitors
sites
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11. If there are issues in reality you can only twist
your story so much
Companies with poor reputation management
skills are often the ones with poor overall
customer experience
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18. A software product had
suggestions like brand +
scam/virus/malware showing up
due to competitors blackmailing it.
By increasing the search volume
and amount of content for other,
more desirable positive queries,
we managed to get rid of such
suggestions.
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29. Be responsive to avoid reputation issues and
solve them early
Name.com have accidentally
sent promo emails to their
customers – after
complaints on Twitter they
posted this video of their
employee responsible for
the screw up eating those
emails as punishment
(Full story:
http://www.irishwonder.co
m/blog/2014/03/20/case-study-
brands-winning-social-
media/)
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30. McDonald’s asks customers to talk about
their experience, promotes a hashtag
Result:
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31. HMV fired employee
vents on official
Twitter account
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34. There is always good content and bad
content about a brand
Make sure people are aware of your good
content and it is well visible
Don’t think you can just “negative SEO” your
bad content
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35. Yes, Online Reputation Management is one
area where negative SEO makes sense
commercially
No, negative SEO is NOT about buying a
bunch of shitty links on Fiverr to your
negative content
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