Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/9/prweb8833452.htm
Reputation Armor recently announced the purchase of a large scale blog network. Blog networks consist of dozens or even thousands of subject specific blogs, usually utilized for online marketing and search engine marketing efforts. The blog network acquired by ReputationArmor.com consists of over 4,000 unique, aged blogs most within their own niche. The important role that blogs and bloggers play in the reputation management industry is only surpassed by the significance of link building and traditional SEO as a whole.
By utilizing the newly acquired network, Reputation Armor will be able to deliver more aggressive and targeted advertorial campaigns; an advertorial is an advertisement in the form of an editorial, the term “advertorial" is a portmanteau of "advertisement" and "editorial”.
The purchase marks an important milestone for ReputationArmor.com, which is about to celebrate their 5th official year in the industry. The network purchase will help the company save money in the long-run and deliver faster results to their clients in need of a web makeover.
The company made public recently that they are undergoing several changes internally that will carry them in to the New Year. Some of the changes include a new acquisition department whose role is to seek out social networks, social media start-ups, web properties, and web assets to increase the company’s holdings and web leverage. Further, the company is now expanding in to global markets to increase their market share within the reputation management industry. Previously Reputation Armor only serviced US & Canadian clients. This change will diversify their clientele and broaden their geographic reach.
Online reputation management provided by ReputationArmor.com is a service that is carefully formulated to help businesses and individuals obtain control over how search engines and social media sites display information about them. In most cases reputation management is used by businesses that are besieged by baseless online reviews, complaints, and rants. The purpose of Reputation Armor’s newly acquired blog network is to help saturate Google and other search engines with positive content to counter the negative reviews and unfounded mentions of their client’s brands.
About Reputation Armor, ReputationArmor.com’s mission is to give control back to internet users and businesses that have been victimized by false, misleading, and unflattering online reviews images, videos, and complaints. Reputation Armor was conceived in 2006 and is one of the pioneers of the reputation management industry. The company is known for its aggressive tactics and unconventional PR and Media stunts to help their clients shift web perception in their favor.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Remove Review – Remove Online Reviews
Remove Reviews From Internet
When you or your company find damaging online reviews and complaints, it is time for content, promotion, and more promotion of content. Online reviews or rants that negatively target your businesses reputation usually find a home on the first page of Google search results. This means when internet users do a search on Google using your name or business as a keyword, the offending links will appear on page one and in most cases above the fold; above the fold refers to a link being in the top portion of the page, thus being a lot more noticeable and easier to find.
Dealing with negative online reviews is not an easy task. There are a few options that may help lesson the damage from online reviews, the only option that has been effective in recent years is to use online reputation management to bury or displace the bad reviews. Reputation Management is the quickest and most viable remedy to ridding search results of bad reviews. Depending where bad reviews reside, there may be other options other than burring the negative link that shows up on Google. For example if you have negative reviews on your Google places (formerly Google Maps) page you will not be able to bury the link like you would other sites. With Google places you have the option of seeding the Google account with more reviews from others to bury the bad ones within Google places, and raise your star rating at the same time. This method works sometimes at least until Google catches on to the manipulation.
To remove online reviews from websites completely is almost impossible. In some cases our service can help mediate/negotiate removal of negative links. In MOST cases we have to manipulate search results as a whole and make it so when someone searches your company name or name, they do not see the links pointing to the bad reviews.
Reputation management like this takes time. Most reputation campaigns can take 8 weeks or more to really make a difference, Fast reputation management is short lived and will not last, if you spam search engines with thousands of pages of weak content then you are only buying temporary results. Reputation Armor offers a permanent solution that will last.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Remove Rip Off Reports Process
First, let’s get the most common question out of the way: Will rip off report remove the complaint about my company from their website? The simple answer is NO. RipOffReport.com has been online for over 10 years and they have purportedly NEVER removed a complaint from their website. The website even states that “We never remove a rip off report, even if the original author requests it.”
Rip off report is protected by the CDA (Communications Decency Act) which in short states that a website owner is not legally responsible or liable for the content a “user” posts on their website or network.
So why do companies like Reputation Armor say they can “Remove” rip off reports? The term “Remove” simply refers to the process of removing the links to the rip off reports from the top of search results, so when people search your name on Google they do not find the rip off reports (At Least Not Ranking High).
How do companies like Reputation Armor remove rip off reports (RipOffReport.com) from the top of search engine results?
The process is commonly referred to as Online Reputation Management, but technically it is Search Engine Optimization they removes it from the top of Google and SE’s.
The process is comprised of 2 main elements, Fresh Content and
· Create Fresh Content: Make new keyword optimized social profiles, Blogs, Mini-Websites, Articles, press releases and more. Use websites and tools like Wordpress, PeoplePond, Linkedin, Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube, Flickr and so on.
· SEO Your Ass Off!: Now comes the hard part (Or Expensive), start SEO to all of the content you created. Example: If you make a Twitter account, add a link to your twitter account from your other accounts, fid others to link to your twitter account to boost its popularity and find followers. Remember to update your accounts including Twitter on a regular basis. There are hundres of SEO Tips you can find online.
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· Stay Digitally Active: Stay active online on social networks like twitter, and keep your online content updated!
Why RipOff Report Wont Remove Complaints
There are a lot of diverse services out there that promise they can Remove Ripoff Report complaints. I want to explain this foremost, because there seems to be a lot of perplexity here. Understand, under no condition is Ripoff Report going to do away with negative comments and reviews. They have been online over 12 years and to-date has never removed a “RipOff Report”.
Why?
Because they don’t have to. There is a law that shields RipoffReport.com, ComplaintsBoard.com, PissedConsumer.com and other comparable sites that are built using user driven content. The law is called The Communications Decency Act, and even though it wasn’t written to guard websites akin to Ripoff Report, it did precisely that. Allowing these site owners to be treated as 3rd party individuals and not directly responsible for the content contained within the websites they operate.
It is the writers accountability. So even if the complaint is a fake, untrue, and possibly even written anonymously, it’s going to remain ripoffreport.com forever.
No matter how much money you have, pull you have, who you know, or what your high priced slick talking attorney says, there is no way you will get Rip Off Report to remove the complaint link about you or your business no matter what it says.
The only remedy to the situation is to A. Have it banned from Google (Very Hard). B. Bury the link so far within search results people do not find it (Common).
To accomplish these goals you will need a Reputation Management Company that specializes in dealing with these types of complaint sites.
How To Remove Rip Off Reports (RipOffReport.com)
If you are researching “How To Remove Rip Off Reports” then you or your business possibly has a rip off report complaint filed against your name or company name. Rip off report will not remove the online complaint from their website. It is not possible (no matter what anyone tells you) to make rip off report remove the complaint from their website, even if it is obviously not true. Rip Off Report has been online since 1998 and has a lot of clout on Google and other search engines. Chances are the rip off report appears very high on the top of search engine results for your name when you search Google and other search engines, this is the most common way people find the rip off reports and this is where you must focus your efforts.
By utilizing search engine optimization techniques you can effectively force a rip off report down the search results so when people search your name they do not find it on the top of search engines like Google.
Below you will find some proven tips and steps to remove rip off reports from the top of Google and other search engines. The tips below will take a lot of time and some money to implement properly. The amount of time it takes and how fast the rip off report link actually starts moving downward depends on your internet skill level, experience with online marketing, your budget, and many other technical factors. Be patient, removing a rip off report and manipulating what a search engine shows can take weeks and possibly months.
Remove Rip Off Reports with SEO and Content Creation Techniques
Create your online identity: The first step is to create and protect your online identity by creating a personal or business profile on as many social networks as possible. By creating an online profile on social network like linkedin, Twitter and FaceBook you will be creating a very strong age about you on a trusted website that will get indexed (added) by Google fairly quickly. Do not limit yourself to only the top 3 social profile sites, create dozens of them.
Create Keyword Rich Content: When trying to bury a rip off report you must create new content that is properly laced with the same keywords that make the rip off report show up high on Google (YOURNAME).
Register your-names (.com, .net, .org) and install a micro website or blog on these domains. You can register a domain name at godaddy or moniker and host it with host gator or any web hosting company. Update your blog or site weekly or daily if possible. Updates help Google understand that these sites are more relevant that the ones that are not updated frequently.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
The Reputation Management industry is a very young industry
It seems like only yesterday there were only a small handful of online reputation management companies online, now there are over 60 different “companies” offering online reputation management. In the beginning there were only companies like Reputation Defender & Reputation Armor that offered the full service of manipulating what the internet and search engines showed about you online. It seems like every week a new reputation management service pops up online in an effort to get a piece of this young multi-million dollar a year industry.
The Reputation Management industry is a very young industry and is still working on becoming an everyday popular topic in the business community.
With so many new services popping up online offering online reputation management it is becoming harder and harder to make an educated choice on which company can actually help you. Other factors are making it hard to make a choice also. One factor is that Reputation Management firms that have been online for more than a few months always have a lot of negative mentions online about them!
It is a very common practice in the reputation management industry for some not so honorable firms to post complaints about their competitors all over a variety of complaint websites in an effort to win more business and weaken a competitor’s online reputation. Most complaints against reputation management firms are simply made up and you can even see that some companies have the exact same complaint, word for word written against them. The older a reputation management firm is and the more popular it is, the harder it gets attacked by competitors.
When choosing a reputation management firm it is important to question the company about what tactics they use. You will most likely hear the same old pitch “We bury negative link with good links”…. In reality Reputation Management is not about a quick fix of hiding some bad links by burying them (not that this is not a good thing), it is also about control. A true reputation management firm will not stop at a quick content creation campaign to bury bad links.
The Reputation Management industry is a very young industry and is still working on becoming an everyday popular topic in the business community.
With so many new services popping up online offering online reputation management it is becoming harder and harder to make an educated choice on which company can actually help you. Other factors are making it hard to make a choice also. One factor is that Reputation Management firms that have been online for more than a few months always have a lot of negative mentions online about them!
It is a very common practice in the reputation management industry for some not so honorable firms to post complaints about their competitors all over a variety of complaint websites in an effort to win more business and weaken a competitor’s online reputation. Most complaints against reputation management firms are simply made up and you can even see that some companies have the exact same complaint, word for word written against them. The older a reputation management firm is and the more popular it is, the harder it gets attacked by competitors.
When choosing a reputation management firm it is important to question the company about what tactics they use. You will most likely hear the same old pitch “We bury negative link with good links”…. In reality Reputation Management is not about a quick fix of hiding some bad links by burying them (not that this is not a good thing), it is also about control. A true reputation management firm will not stop at a quick content creation campaign to bury bad links.
Reputation Management firms, including our firm Reputation Armor, always advertise our use the term “Remove”.
Reputation Management firms, including our firm Reputation Armor, always advertise our use the term “Remove”. For example you will see ads online and text on reputation management websites that say “Remove Rip Off Reports” or “Remove Online Complaints”. The term “Remove” usually refers to the process of “Removing” online complaints and negative links from the top of search engine results.
In most cases it is impossible or highly unlikely that a reputation management firm can make or force a blogger or website owner to actually delete or permanently remove your online complaints from the internet. There are some cases where we have had information deleted and most of those cases were violating copyrighted material.
Why the reputation industry uses the word or term “Remove” so much is because that is what people use when searching for a service like ours. When someone finds a website that has something bad about them on it, their first instinct is I WANT THIS REMOVED, so they jump on Google and search “how to remove XYZ” or “Remove XYZ”.
Even an attorney can not force most websites to remove (DELETE) negative information. Sure, and attorney may tell you that they will work on the case for you and give you false hopes, but the fact remains that most websites are protected by certain laws like the CDA, Freedom of Speech, International Loop-Holes, and others.
It is very rare to force a website to delete something or scare them into doing so. In some cases even asking for it to be removed will cause them to talk about the situation online even more, thus adding fuel to the fire that you are trying to put out.
If you can hire a Reputation Management firm to help you bury or hide the negative links on search engines, the complaint links are as good as gone. The safest place for a complaint link is past pages 3 on search engine results. Statistically only a small fraction of internet users go past page 1 and 2 on search engines. If you can push negative links back to page 3 or deeper and have informative information on the first to pages of Google about you or your firm then you have accomplished your goal.
In most cases it is impossible or highly unlikely that a reputation management firm can make or force a blogger or website owner to actually delete or permanently remove your online complaints from the internet. There are some cases where we have had information deleted and most of those cases were violating copyrighted material.
Why the reputation industry uses the word or term “Remove” so much is because that is what people use when searching for a service like ours. When someone finds a website that has something bad about them on it, their first instinct is I WANT THIS REMOVED, so they jump on Google and search “how to remove XYZ” or “Remove XYZ”.
Even an attorney can not force most websites to remove (DELETE) negative information. Sure, and attorney may tell you that they will work on the case for you and give you false hopes, but the fact remains that most websites are protected by certain laws like the CDA, Freedom of Speech, International Loop-Holes, and others.
It is very rare to force a website to delete something or scare them into doing so. In some cases even asking for it to be removed will cause them to talk about the situation online even more, thus adding fuel to the fire that you are trying to put out.
If you can hire a Reputation Management firm to help you bury or hide the negative links on search engines, the complaint links are as good as gone. The safest place for a complaint link is past pages 3 on search engine results. Statistically only a small fraction of internet users go past page 1 and 2 on search engines. If you can push negative links back to page 3 or deeper and have informative information on the first to pages of Google about you or your firm then you have accomplished your goal.
Reputation Armor Defamation Defense
Defamation: Also called Defamation of Character.
Spoken or written words (commentary) on a living person that affects his or her reputation. It can be in regard to business or have personal implications. If a blog, website, or forum publishes something harmful about you that damages your reputation, defamation has occurred. Both libel and slander are forms of defamation of character.
In most states you have to actually suffer a financial loss in order to have cause for legal action.
Slander:
Slander is when someone says something negative about you, with spoken words. Internet libel is frequently confused with internet slander, but slander primarily means the spoken word. If I say something negative about you to all of my friends that hurts your business and is 100% not true, this is slander.
Libel
Libel is the written word, as well as the recorded word. As a rule this includes radio and television broadcasts. If a reporter says something about you that is false, it is classified as libel. This also generally includes written reviews on blogs and forums, as well as review websites like RipOffReport.com, ComplaintsBoard.com and several others.
Can you Sue for Internet Slander / Libel?
Someone has posted lies and harmful articles about you online and you want to know if you can make them pay for damages. The answer is maybe (But Not Likely). Many product review websites, like RipoffReport.com, My3Cents, Yelp, Complaints Board, and the rest are all protected by a law called The Communications Decency Act ( or “CDA,” : 47 USC 230), which completely protects website owners from being held libel for content created by their website users.
Could you possible sue the actual person that generated the content? Perhaps, if you knew who they were and could prove they did it without a doubt. The problem is that website owners don’t (By Law) have to divulge this information to you, nor do they have any responsibility to log any user info like IP addresses and email addresses. Identifying who to sue can be an issue when it comes to most the review sites.
Does a person have a right to speak their opinion?
Completely, it’s a privileged right that we all have, and it is a constitutional right. However, an opinion must remain an opinion and be stated as such. It should never include detailed facts that can later be proven fictitious.
Can a person defend defamation in court?
If you sue someone for defamation (libel or slander) and they demonstrate in court that what they said or wrote is true, you’re going to lose your case. Just because something is embarrassing or upsetting isn’t enough. If it’s true, you shouldn’t sue. You’ll only lose time and money and then in the end, your case.
Can I remove internet slander / libel from offending websites?
Almost certainly not, except if you can prove that the website owner wrote it and that it was 100% untrue. If it was user generated content (Written By A Site User or Member) they do not have to remove the content, nor reveal to you who wrote that content. It’s all sheltered by the CDA (Communications Decency Act). Rip off report and its clones have more or less all declared that they will NEVER remove user generated content.
They are 100% protected by the CDA and the user generated content is the foundation for their hideous, little business model. The online complaints on their website are what drives more traffic to their website and makes them revenue in one way or another.
They are never going to remove those reviews. But we can help. If you or your company are suffering from internet slander or online libel, please contact Reputation Armor at 888-358-2766 and let us explain how we can remove negative information from the first few page of the search engine results.
Spoken or written words (commentary) on a living person that affects his or her reputation. It can be in regard to business or have personal implications. If a blog, website, or forum publishes something harmful about you that damages your reputation, defamation has occurred. Both libel and slander are forms of defamation of character.
In most states you have to actually suffer a financial loss in order to have cause for legal action.
Slander:
Slander is when someone says something negative about you, with spoken words. Internet libel is frequently confused with internet slander, but slander primarily means the spoken word. If I say something negative about you to all of my friends that hurts your business and is 100% not true, this is slander.
Libel
Libel is the written word, as well as the recorded word. As a rule this includes radio and television broadcasts. If a reporter says something about you that is false, it is classified as libel. This also generally includes written reviews on blogs and forums, as well as review websites like RipOffReport.com, ComplaintsBoard.com and several others.
Can you Sue for Internet Slander / Libel?
Someone has posted lies and harmful articles about you online and you want to know if you can make them pay for damages. The answer is maybe (But Not Likely). Many product review websites, like RipoffReport.com, My3Cents, Yelp, Complaints Board, and the rest are all protected by a law called The Communications Decency Act ( or “CDA,” : 47 USC 230), which completely protects website owners from being held libel for content created by their website users.
Could you possible sue the actual person that generated the content? Perhaps, if you knew who they were and could prove they did it without a doubt. The problem is that website owners don’t (By Law) have to divulge this information to you, nor do they have any responsibility to log any user info like IP addresses and email addresses. Identifying who to sue can be an issue when it comes to most the review sites.
Does a person have a right to speak their opinion?
Completely, it’s a privileged right that we all have, and it is a constitutional right. However, an opinion must remain an opinion and be stated as such. It should never include detailed facts that can later be proven fictitious.
Can a person defend defamation in court?
If you sue someone for defamation (libel or slander) and they demonstrate in court that what they said or wrote is true, you’re going to lose your case. Just because something is embarrassing or upsetting isn’t enough. If it’s true, you shouldn’t sue. You’ll only lose time and money and then in the end, your case.
Can I remove internet slander / libel from offending websites?
Almost certainly not, except if you can prove that the website owner wrote it and that it was 100% untrue. If it was user generated content (Written By A Site User or Member) they do not have to remove the content, nor reveal to you who wrote that content. It’s all sheltered by the CDA (Communications Decency Act). Rip off report and its clones have more or less all declared that they will NEVER remove user generated content.
They are 100% protected by the CDA and the user generated content is the foundation for their hideous, little business model. The online complaints on their website are what drives more traffic to their website and makes them revenue in one way or another.
They are never going to remove those reviews. But we can help. If you or your company are suffering from internet slander or online libel, please contact Reputation Armor at 888-358-2766 and let us explain how we can remove negative information from the first few page of the search engine results.
Remove Online Defamation
Online defamation takes place everyday and likely ever minute on the Internet. It is a regular source of concern for individuals who fear that their reputations are not safe and sound. Regrettably, there are little legal options available to those individuals who are defamed online. The offending comments more often than not cannot just be removed. As an alternative, one must generally turn to online reputation management for a solution. This means removing the online defamation by way of making it irrelevant to search engines and thus making it rank lower within search results.
What is Defamation?
Defamation of any kind is, by definition, damaging to an individual, company, or organization’s reputation. Defamation can be extremely injurious to an individual or the trust and sales of a business, not to mention the general public perception of an organization or entity. It is universally known now that various companies will Google an individual in order to find more about them before hiring them. In the same way, would be customers will often Google (Search) a company seeking information and reviews before paying for products or services. Companies and organizations depend upon the Internet for a immeasurable number of reasons, not the least of which includes passing information onto potential clients. Even outside business reasons, individuals hardly ever like to see themselves or their projects being defamed. They want to go right the wrong, correct the errors, and tell the truth where there is a lie. It is a comprehensible feeling, but not always the best available option.
How do I solve it?
It is more often than not best to seek out a peaceful and trouble-free way to resolve the quarrel. If at all possible, emailing the poster privately and humbly suggesting their information is mistaken is a good way to go about things. However, some individuals will not take kindly to this and will resort to even worse tactics y publicizing your concern and adding to the issue. I know responding to the lies seems like a good idea, but it rarely is. It does little to nothing to clear your name and usually Google and other search engines take more recurrent commenting to mean the site should be ranked higher in their search results. This is contradictory of the intended effect. Often, it is okay to just leave well enough alone. If the offending comments do not appear in your search results and can only be found by those who are specifically looking for them, it might be best.
If the offending comment ranks highly in your search results, predominantly on the first page, it could be quite damaging. It is not often that these offending comments can be removed through legal means. First of all, lawsuits are exceedingly expensive and are in most cases are not effective when it comes to online defamation. This is because of a law, which is still highly controversial, known as the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA). Specifically, Section 230 of that Act, which relates to legal liability for third party providers of information. What this means is that if Person A posts defamatory materiel on Person B’s website, which concerns Person C–Person C cannot then sue Person B for publishing the material, unless Person B is actively involved in editing or publishing the material. Person B, in this case, is a “third party provider”, and is not legally liable for defamatory content that is posted on their website. In any case where the website is simply allowing “users” to make defamatory comments, rather than making them personally, they are not liable.
What is Defamation?
Defamation of any kind is, by definition, damaging to an individual, company, or organization’s reputation. Defamation can be extremely injurious to an individual or the trust and sales of a business, not to mention the general public perception of an organization or entity. It is universally known now that various companies will Google an individual in order to find more about them before hiring them. In the same way, would be customers will often Google (Search) a company seeking information and reviews before paying for products or services. Companies and organizations depend upon the Internet for a immeasurable number of reasons, not the least of which includes passing information onto potential clients. Even outside business reasons, individuals hardly ever like to see themselves or their projects being defamed. They want to go right the wrong, correct the errors, and tell the truth where there is a lie. It is a comprehensible feeling, but not always the best available option.
How do I solve it?
It is more often than not best to seek out a peaceful and trouble-free way to resolve the quarrel. If at all possible, emailing the poster privately and humbly suggesting their information is mistaken is a good way to go about things. However, some individuals will not take kindly to this and will resort to even worse tactics y publicizing your concern and adding to the issue. I know responding to the lies seems like a good idea, but it rarely is. It does little to nothing to clear your name and usually Google and other search engines take more recurrent commenting to mean the site should be ranked higher in their search results. This is contradictory of the intended effect. Often, it is okay to just leave well enough alone. If the offending comments do not appear in your search results and can only be found by those who are specifically looking for them, it might be best.
If the offending comment ranks highly in your search results, predominantly on the first page, it could be quite damaging. It is not often that these offending comments can be removed through legal means. First of all, lawsuits are exceedingly expensive and are in most cases are not effective when it comes to online defamation. This is because of a law, which is still highly controversial, known as the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA). Specifically, Section 230 of that Act, which relates to legal liability for third party providers of information. What this means is that if Person A posts defamatory materiel on Person B’s website, which concerns Person C–Person C cannot then sue Person B for publishing the material, unless Person B is actively involved in editing or publishing the material. Person B, in this case, is a “third party provider”, and is not legally liable for defamatory content that is posted on their website. In any case where the website is simply allowing “users” to make defamatory comments, rather than making them personally, they are not liable.
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