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

seo.co

Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. + In other words, a positive online reputation and social proof leads to higher conversion rates. 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. 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

What we did was called word of mouth marketing. I wasn’t always in marketing communications and PR. Other folks from other cities are all about building their own personal brand on the back of their employer; DC’s not like that: CIA, NSA, DIA, NRO, FBI, BIR, DHS, DEA, OIA, OIC, AMI, ONI, CGI, and NMS.