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

seo.co

Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. + The internet has the potential to make or break your online brand. With the advent of social media, it has become even more easy to build (or destroy) your reputation. With the advent of social media, it has become even more easy to build (or destroy) your reputation.

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Best practices for social media shilling

Biznology

A venerable tradition in public relations is the grass-roots campaign. If, on the Internet, no one knows you are a dog, why bother getting real people for your grass-roots campaigns? These fake grass roots campaigns, called astroturfing, caught on about ten years ago and still haven’t died out. . How do I know?

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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.