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Best practices for social media shilling

Biznology

These fake grass roots campaigns, called astroturfing, caught on about ten years ago and still haven’t died out. . All this was brought to mind when I recently did some dog food research for a client and it occurred to me that quite a few of the comments are astroturf. Well, from 2003-2006 I was in the astroturfing business.

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Guerrilla Marketing Strategies: 10 Creative Marketing Ideas

seo.co

In today’s internet and social media age, clever marketing gets recognized and shared. And it’s for this reason that sharing user-generated content on your website and social media platforms can be effective. Bounty’s logo and slogan was sitting in the background for millions more to see on social media.

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

seo.co

Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. + With the advent of social media, it has become even more easy to build (or destroy) your reputation. There might be negative posts on certain social media about your operation. By comparison, just 92 percent believe a social media presence is important.

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Guerilla Marketing Strategies: 10 Creative Marketing Ideas

seo.co

In today’s internet and social media age, clever marketing gets recognized and shared. And it’s for this reason that sharing user-generated content on your website and social media platforms can be effective. Bounty’s logo and slogan was sitting in the background for millions more to see on social media.

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5 Attributes of a Healthy, Real-Time Culture

Convince & Convert

Sadly, Astroturf didn’t.). ————– This is the first in a 7-week blog post series covering themes included in The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter, and More Social - my new book with Amber Naslund , debuting February 1 (pre-orders and first chapter for free available now).

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Your online reputation should be a culmination of you

Biznology

And since Google is once bitten, twice shy over all of the times Google’s been hurt before by all those one-night stands with spammers, astroturfers, phishers, and the like, Google is looking more and more for a nice guy, a girl next door. Everybody indeed wants a shortcut. See what I mean?

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I was a teenage Russian troll OG

Biznology

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. But the training was expensive and lasted months. If there was even a hint of “ Witch!