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

seo.co

Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. + Trust and authority. Which one do you think the average customer is going to trust more? Furthermore, three out of four customers say positive reviews make them more likely to trust a local business. Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. Table of Contents. +

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Best practices for social media shilling

Biznology

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. These fake grass roots campaigns, called astroturfing, caught on about ten years ago and still haven’t died out. . Why not fake the whole thing?

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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.