Managing Your Reputation Online: 3 Web Sites To Quickly Bolster Your Online Reputation

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By Jori Ford (www.chicagoseopro.com), Chicago SEO Strategist/Consultant

Are You In Control of What Your Potential Customers Are Seeing?

These days, just about everyone has an opinion, and every good business person knows, word of mouth goes a long way, and a bad review can go even further. Protecting your reputation and managing what users see is a daunting task, but here are 5 web sites that upon being indexed, can catapult those not so friendly reviews or misrepresentations of your brand down to pages that searchers never go to.

Top 3 Sites To Help Manage Your Business Reputation Online

1. LinkedIn.com – LinkedIn provides individuals and companies with profiles pages and tons of established reputation, so simply creating a linked in profile can add another page to your arsenal that adequately represents your company, speaks well of its reputation and maintains the brand.

2. Wikipedia.com – Though you cannot create a profile, a non-biased description of your company and the ability to provide quality technical and financial information may be accepted into this massive, human edited encyclopedia. Enlisting a third-party to add your business history to Wikipedia is a more solid bet of having the information accepted.

3. Facebook.com – Now more than ever, everyone really is on Facebook, as can be seen by Obama’s explosive visibility online via his social media campaign. Where did it start? Facebook.com. Facebook user pages tend to get vaulted to the top rankings of branding related keywords and direct type in searches for company names.

Creating profiles at popular social sites and established information sites improves how end users view your company as the results are typically in the top results for branding key phrases.
Negative comments should be taken as feedback on ways to improve. A surefire way to assist in improving reputation is to create an account where the negative comment was posted, comment with a response and post how you intend to fix the issue. Thank the consumer for posting and giving feedback, it will make them feel heard, help your business, and improve the way others see your interaction with negative reactions to your business.

ABOUT JORI FORD
Jori Ford is a seasoned SEO Strategist/Consultant, based in Chicago, Il. Ford currently works as the Internal SEO Director for Cyber Technology, LLC. Her 6+ years of combined experience in search marketing, web development and web design, have helped her earn titles such as Sr. SEO Analyst (Netconcepts, LLC.), SEO Specialist (The Usman Group) and other positions which speak to her abilities.