SEO in Reputation and Brand Management

November 19th, 2009 | 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

Social Media Sites for Reputation Management

November 12th, 2009 | 1 | No Comments »

Social Media sites have become the latest mantra as far as reputation management is concerned. More and more people are turning towards Social Media Optimization as a means of spreading favorable PR through online communities and social mediums.

How to Use Social Media Sites

Social Media sites can be used in the following ways

• Blogging – Blogging is one of the fastest ways to spread the word. So create and post relevant blogs and share with all the people you know.
• Articles Submission– write and submit relevant and high quality articles using specific keywords to various websites.
• Forums Discussion – Forums are a more subtle form of advertising. Active participation in discussions and conversations will be a good way to disburse information and opinion about your company.
• An alternative to submitting articles is posting a video about your company on Youtube.

Popular Social Media Sites

There are a lot of social media sites like Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Reddit,  Sphinn, Facebook, Linked In, YouTube, etc. Of these sites, Linked In, Stumbleupon and Twitter are by far the best.

With the modifications that have been included in the past 6 months, Linked In has become a lot more user-friendly and extremely favorable for socializing and making new contacts. Stumbleupon provides instant access to a wide range of subjects and categories while Twitter is one of the fastest ways of spreading your message and getting instant feedback.

Remember Things When Using Social Media

Using social media calls for a lot of tactic. If used for blatant advertising, you can be penalized by most sites. Keep these few points in mind to help you out:

• Do not use the most obvious SEO strategies like link building. They can be very annoying.
• Focus on quality rather than quantity on these sites. Your aim is to reach relevant audience, not all and sundry on this planet.
• Respect the other individual’s wishes. If he does not wish to post about you, so be it. Maintain a relationship with him, in the hope that he could introduce you to more like-minded people.

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