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

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Dealing With Negative Reviews. Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. + While you may be seeing positive reviews about yourself or your business, you need to really “listen” beyond “what you can hear,” because the internet is populated by all sorts of noises. Dealing With Negative Reviews. Table of Contents. +

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Best practices for social media shilling

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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. Yelp on Fake Reviews: We Filter 25% of Reviews for Being Suspicious.

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I was a teenage Russian troll OG

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I haven’t at all since I left NMS in 2006 and I don’t even know if NMS continued doing it themselves since there was a lot of heat from the FTC and organizations like WOMMA, PRSA, and the lot to not astroturf or misrepresent oneself. If there was even a hint of “ Witch!