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

seo.co

Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. + A brand’s online reputation can win it good press or bad press. A new subdivision of Public Relations, largely the offspring of SEO, is the field of reputation management. Press releases are a time-honored tool of public relations , and they can be used in this way.

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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.