Are you personally affected by some adverse or negative comments appearing about you on the Internet? Then, it is important that you take suitable steps swiftly to undo the likely damage and protect your personal reputation.You have to devise strategies to improve the search engine rankings of positive news and comments about you – so that the negative comments disappear from the first page.
Personal online reputation management is not merely confined to suppressing negative information and making your image look better. It is equally important to promote and publicize the positive and favorable things about you for safeguarding your name online
Some of the steps you can take to effectively contain the damage to your online reputation:
- Enter your personal name into the Google search box and view first hand what appears when others search for you online.
- Spend time to search and diagnose your online reputation management issues and the specific keywords/key phrases that are generating results about you on the internet.
- Devise a suitable plan to create positive publicity about yourself on the internet Optimize each positive search engine pertaining to you and ensure that whatever negative information are removed from the first page of search engine results
- Also take steps to ensure that no negative listings appear on the first page of search results in future.
- Avoid all requests for link exchanges because the page has low indexing time and thus negligible value.
- It is advisable to select a domain name and create some positive content that will remain on your site. You can include a well structured bio of yourself, few anecdotes from your personal life and your CV as well.
- You can go one step further and also start posting few interesting articles and your own comments about the article content.
- In fact, you can select a suitable site like Tumblr, WordPress, About.me etc for this purpose. You can apply your domain name to your chosen sites.
- Join all major social media sites and be active and ensure all positive things appear about you on these social media sites. Please remember people are becoming social media addicts.
Your Turn:
What is your personal online reputation management strategy ? We’d love to hear your thoughts.