Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Online reputation management and the power of effective content

Online reputation management is antidote to negative publicity online. A negative post or piece of information that comes on the first page of a search engine page like Google can be bad news to your online business. It is now easy for an customer or a lay man with even limited use of computers to post their views online in forum sites, blogs and other web 2.0 platforms.

You may not be able to obliterate negative results disappear completely from a search engine. However, you can definitely impact the search engine results in such a way that only positive and relevant information about your product or service features in the ‘first two’ pages of a search engine. As we know online reputation management is a healthy amalgamation of PR skills and search engine optimization. You can definitely use ORM to your best advantage by marketing your product or service in the right manner.

Writing effective content is one of the best ways to exercise wise online reputation management. Good amount of interesting, original content is the right way to thrust online reputation management effectively. In fact, not only will effective content will win you a lot of support and patronage, it will also make many sites or blogs ‘link back’ to you. With the help of valuable backlinks and your expert knowledge about the product, you can increase the positioning of your business to such a measure that it can feature in the first two pages of a search engine.

You can also submit various articles to famous article directories online. These article directories have a resource box at the end, where you can include your company name that will link back the readers back to your website or blog. There are certain specialist sites or article directories that specially deal with the product or service you are dealing with. In this case, you can put in a keyword or two about your industry along with the phrase ‘article directory’ or ‘submit articles.’ For instance, if your company deals in home loans, you can write home loans article directory.



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