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Online Reputation Management: Using SEO to Defend Your Online Brand & Reputation

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Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. + Research shows that 92 percent of people hesitate to do business with a company that has less than four stars on Google. Did you know that 97 percent of companies say online reputation management is important to their business? Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading.

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Best practices for social media shilling

Biznology

These fake grass roots campaigns, called astroturfing, caught on about ten years ago and still haven’t died out. . All this was brought to mind when I recently did some dog food research for a client and it occurred to me that quite a few of the comments are astroturf. Well, from 2003-2006 I was in the astroturfing business.

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Your online reputation should be a culmination of you

Biznology

What you have probably been doing until now is ignoring the direct relationship between your actions online and the Google’s reaction to them. What’s even more probable is that Google’s reacting to your painful lack of online action. See what I mean? Someone reliable who folks know and can vouch for.