SEO in Reputation and Brand Management
Posted on November 19th, 2009 in SEO Reputation Management | No Comments »
However hard you try, it is rather difficult maintaining a squeaky clean & fine reputation. Once your reputation takes a hit, it can also be extremely difficult to salvage it. In this situation, your competitors are waiting eagerly to pounce on any customers you might lose. Considering the effects it can have on your business, it becomes important to take immediate remediation measures by employing reputation management professionals.
What Role Does SEO Play?
Search Engines are extremely unbiased and democratic in nature. If you have the right keywords, content, links and structure, you stand a fair chance to be ranked high, like your competitors, or the people who are out to cause harm. Therefore, by using SEO techniques, you can make the damaging comments ‘disappear’ from the top results on SERPs.
Rememeber, SEO is like a watchdog for your brand. All this while, it has been driving web traffic to your site and helping you make money. Now, you can use it as a powerful tool to fight back negative and undesirable comments.
Start with the Keywords
There is no way that one can play down the importance of keywords for reputation management. If you’ve already optimized your website using a set of keywords, you will have to use different keywords to fight the current problem. Now, focus on those keywords that are creating the maximum ripples and turn them around to your benefit.
Using those “negative” keywords or a specific product name, make a lot of relevant and high quality content. By doing this, you create a good press for the offending keywords and improve the ranks for your website, thereby making an effort to push the damaging pages out of the top few SERPs.
SEO Tips
• Employ professional bloggers to put up posts about you.
• Try to organize podcasts and news interviews online for your product or brand.
• Exchange links with relevant websites
• Try to buy as many domains as you can, ensuring that they focus on your target keywords
• Monopolize the PPC spots on major Search Engines.
• Join social networking sites and participate in fruitful conversations and discussions
• Hire a good SEO company India