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

seo.co

Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. + With the advent of social media, it has become even more easy to build (or destroy) your reputation. There might be negative posts on certain social media about your operation. Trust and authority. Which one do you think the average customer is going to trust more?

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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

In my early and mid-thirties I worked for New Media Strategies (NMS). 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.