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

seo.co

Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. + Does your business like to partner with other businesses for marketing, innovation, media, etc.? A new subdivision of Public Relations, largely the offspring of SEO, is the field of reputation management. Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. Table of Contents. +

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Best practices for social media shilling

Biznology

A venerable tradition in public relations is the grass-roots campaign. These fake grass roots campaigns, called astroturfing, caught on about ten years ago and still haven’t died out. . Well, from 2003-2006 I was in the astroturfing business. From astroturfing to shilling to DoS attacks to brute-force hacking.

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I was a teenage Russian troll OG

Biznology

I sat in an open-plan room occupying a former newsroom, spending all my days under cover, marketing on behalf of Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy), Buena Vista (now Disney), TomTom, Paramount Pictures, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Disney, Reebok, EA, RCA, and NBC. What we did was called word of mouth marketing. And that was just me, from 2002-2006.