Swing the tides in your favor! Online Reputation Management
Tony Adam
February 25, 2009
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Overview
• Statistical Lane
• Monitor the Conversation
• The Conversation is Everywhere • Protect your Brand • Change your Perception to the public
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Taking a trip down statistical lane…
More than 320K Complaints Filled
Google Query for inurl:sucks
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Case Study: PayPal – Negativity in Search
• Ripoff Report: PayPal – 11,500 Results
• Negative Search Queries:
– 4,900 results - inurl:PayPal sucks – 12,800 results - intitle:PayPal sucks
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Monitor the conversation
Listen, Monitor, and Track what people are saying about your Brand.
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Tools available to Track your Brand
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Online Reputation Management is not…
Online Reputation Management is not just SEO and SERP management.
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The conversation is EVERYWHERE
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Be involved in the Conversation
It’s not about the Social Media tool or website, it’s about the Conversation. Focus on ALL FORMS of Social Interaction.
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Case Study: PayPal on Social Media - Twitter
(Hope my old PayPal Peeps don’t hate me! :P)
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Protect your Personal or Business Brand
• Username searches for your Brand: http://checkusernames.com/ • Link to external resources and Social Media profiles with branded search terms. • Subdomains and Branded Pages to combat Flame sites and negative queries.
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Change Perception by being Genuine
• Keep negativity and flame wars OFFLINE. • Give Customers/Users the opportunity to provide feedback to YOU. • Transparency is key: Provide Assistance and Be Genuine.
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Case Study: PayPal – The Problem
• 4 of Top 10 Search Results for branded term “PayPal” were Flame sites:
– http://paypalsucks.com/
– http://aboutpaypal.org/ – http://paypalwarning.com/
• Negative queries about “PayPal”
– “disadvantages of PayPal” – “paypal problems” – “is paypal safe”
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Case Study: PayPal – The Strategy
• Strategy to combat the Flame sites:
– Subdomains (e.g. developer.paypal.com) – Social Media Branding (e.g. MySpace, Twitter, etc.) – Link to positive pre-existing external resources. (e.g. WikiPedia)
• Get involved in Social Media
– Clean up Social Media accounts like http://twitter.com/paypal that are not really run by PayPal. – Make sure your Social Media profile are visible to Search Engines and creates engagement for your Audience. – Listen to and Monitor the Audience.
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THANK YOU!
Tony Adam
Manager, Search Traffic Acquisition
Yahoo! Audience Marketing tadam@yahoo-inc.com http://tonyadam.com/blog http://twitter.com/tonyadam (@tonyadam)
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