Reputation Management: 6 things you can do about bad customer reviews

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While you can never stop dissatisfied customers from posting bad reviews, there are things you can do in response to them.    Your first step is to become active in the social space - which covers everything from your Google Places and Yelp listing to Facebook and Twitter.   In today's 24/7 digital world, you can't afford to be out of the loop in the conversation going on about you.  You need … [Read more...]

Reputation Management 101: 7 Things you Must Accept about Bad Reviews

    Clients often approach me in a crisis, after seeing a particularly bad customer review on Google Reviews, Yahoo Local, City Search, Yelp or other highly visible social media review site. They’re breathing fire and demanding that I get the review pulled down. It’s the worst time to introduce them to the concept of “Reputation Management” – the discipline and service of … [Read more...]

Reputation Management 101 – Those Darn Reviews!

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The value of online customer reviews is surging, both to sites that host review tools, and to consumers who are increasingly likely to start their search for goods and services on the internet.  This was underlined recently by a high-profile flap with Yelp, which culminated in all third-party reviews being pulled from Google Places. Every business understands the value of word-of-mouth … [Read more...]

8 top ways site owners sabotage their own SEO

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The recent public opening of Google+ and the announcement of sweeping changes for Facebook underscore the growing complexity of  search engine optimization, and the need for website owners to ensure they aren’t sabotaging their own sites.   And unfortunately, for many of our clients, our first step is to undo search ranking problems the previous web developers or the clients themselves have … [Read more...]