What’s The Point To Reputation Management?

December 1, 2009

You’ve heard the term “reputation management” used, but what does it mean? Why should you focus on it? What’s the point? Is it just another SEO tool?

Well, yes, it is an SEO tool, but the point behind reputation management is more than just SEO. It might be truer to say that SEO is a tool to enhance your reputation management efforts.

The point behind reputation management is to increase the positive image building elements about you and your brand that appear online while degrading the negative as much as possible. You do this through the use of several tools, including SEO. But you can – and should – also use social media to assist you with your reputation management. In fact, SEO and social media go hand in hand to help you with managing your reputation.

But there are other things too. Social connections, for instance. Get your biggest fans to help you. If you can get your fans to evangelize on your behalf then your reputation management plan becomes easier to manage.

It’s easy to lose sight of the goal and start focusing on driving down the bad talk or to get fixated on your awards or other trophies, but don’t get sidetracked. Your real goal is to brand yourself and make a positive impression on the people you want to do business with. Reputation management is largely just being yourself. And I know you can handle that.

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