How To Win The Reputation Game

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

Your online reputation is important. Everything anyone says about you online will help your hurt your reputation. But the best way to combat negativity is to stay active.

Activity.

What I mean is, you need to be active on at least three or four social networks and you need to keep updating content. On your website and wherever you can. Article directories. Blog Directories. Guest blogging or article writing. Everywhere.

I’d say the most important places right now to have a presence and be active for at least a few minutes a day are:

• Digg – Massive link juice, dude.
• StumbleUpon – Good traffic source. Traffic to your site translates into higher search rankings.
• Facebook – Great social, good SEO.
• LinkedIn – Good for business.
• Twitter – Many marketers report Twitter as their primary source of new traffic.
• Yahoo! Answers – Excellent place to become an expert or prove you are one.
• Your own website – Update it every day. Or more if you can.
• Top websites within your niche – Offer to guest write.

The more good you can have said about you and the more good you do online the less the negative will rise or have any effect. Stay active. It’s the best search engine and online reputation management strategy on the planet.