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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. + The internet has the potential to make or break your online brand. Your reputation on the Internet can be subject to a lot of volatility. The key to keeping your internet reputation sparkling clean is to pay close attention to what people say about you. But you might not.

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Best practices for social media shilling

Biznology

A venerable tradition in public relations is the grass-roots campaign. You don’t have to be in PR to know what this is and how effective it can be when done right. But when we started shifting PR online, we started shifting other things, too. Well, from 2003-2006 I was in the astroturfing business.

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I was a teenage Russian troll OG

Biznology

Anyone with an internet connection can do it. I wasn’t always in marketing communications and PR. If there was even a hint of “ Witch! And, none of what we did–I did–at NMS required any special equipment. And anyone who can not only be discrete but bring 5, 50, 500 of their closest allies on board can do it.