3 Ways to Repair Your Reputation

Welcome to the internet, where your privacy and your reputation are constantly under attack. Your privacy is compromised even when a small detail about your life makes its way online, like if you put your phone number in your Facebook about section without realizing that it is publicly viewable. Your reputation can also take a hit, from [...]

Selling on Facebook

Even before the Facebook IPO puts its reputation in crisis, Facebook has generated a lot of talk about how businesses can monetize their Facebook fanbase. Facebook sold tokens to users, which could then be used to buy virtual gifts for friends or even to buy additional features in games like The Sims Social and Farmville. [...]

How to Remove Negative Content

When negative content shows up about you online, the effects can be catastrophic to your online reputation. Whether it is something as simple as a grammatically incorrect post made in the comments section of a blog, or a news article that connects you to a crime, you will want to remove negative content before it [...]

Remove Negative Reviews

Everyone understands the importance of online reviews (our past blog post about Business Reviews provides some helpful statistics about their importance) and so it is no surprise that businesses are always looking for ways to remove negative reviews from sites like Google+ Local and Yelp in order to restore their online reputations. While there isn’t [...]

3 Reasons Google Plus Local has Changed Reviews Forever

When Google transitioned Google Places to Google+ Local, it sent shockwaves through the industry as business owners scrambled to get ahead of competitors by getting set up on the new reviews site. However, many still have not grasped the scope of the change and why it matters to businesses. If you are still looking for [...]

First Page of Google: Businesses

As mentioned in our previous blog post about the First Page of Google for individuals,  95% of searchers do not bother looking past the first page of Google. There is some additional information that businesses should be aware of, however. Research shows that nearly 90% of internet users utilize a search engine to find out [...]

First Page of Google: Individuals

By now everyone should recognize the importance of ranking on the first page of Google. 95% of searchers do not bother looking past the first page of Google. For an individual, your first page Google search results are your chance to make a good first impression on whoever is searching for you, whether it is [...]

“We Know What You’re Doing” Website Will Help you get Fired

Yesterday the web exploded with chatter about a new social networking privacy experiment taking place at WeKnowWhatYoureDoing.com. If you are unfamiliar with the site, it is a tool that collects and displays publicly shared Facebook statuses in four categories: “who wants to get fired,” “who’s hungover,” “who’s taking drugs,” and “who’s got a new phone [...]

5 ways to get the most out of Google Plus Local

We recently blogged about Google’s big announcement regarding online reviews and local search (Google Places Replaced by Google+ Local). Savvy business owners who want to stay ahead of their competitors have already created pages for their businesses. If you have not yet created a page for your business, you should take a look at our [...]

SnapChat Checker

Several weeks ago we blogged about a popular mobile app called Snapchat that allows users to send a photo to someone else’s phone and set the photo to automatically delete itself after a set period of time specified by the sender. Last week we followed up that post with a discussion of the Snapchat Screenshot, [...]