Online Reputation Management To Successfully Rebuild Your Online Presence

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Almost everyone has attended an office function party where alcohol flowed freely and a few party-goers imbibed too heavily. Something happened that seemed pretty funny at the time but later pointed to a lack of judgment by an intoxicated employee. Prior to the internet, this sort of indiscretion would have provided fodder for office gossip and eventually faded away.

Today, however, a few foolish seconds can inflict lasting damage to your on line reputation, calling for online reputation management by a company such as Internet Ethics Corp.

Opportunities for capturing and disseminating embarrassing episodes abound. Everyone seems to have a mobile phone with a camera. Once a coworker or friend uploads a cringe-inducing video or photo to Facebook, the item is ripe for dissemination to a larger audience, casting you in a bad light and putting your job on the line. Today’s competitive job environment makes online reputation management a necessity. One false step can cripple a career, and you don’t want to be the employee learning this hard lesson.

Repairing online reputation damage

Fortunately, there is hope for the disgraced employee. Say you were the employee who behaved in an uncharacteristic fashion, and the evidence of your poor behavior did not fade away. Unflattering remarks about your company migrated to the Internet, harming your employer’s image. You lose your job when your employer learns of the perceived disloyalty.

You seek new employment, but each prospective employer uncovers your unfortunate comments in a pre-screening Internet search. The comments won’t go away without online reputation management.

Now you are unemployed, with a blemished online reputation. This is when online reputation management can help. Remediation begins with by evaluating the severity of the reputation damage and the scope of its dissemination on the Web.

At this point, you should ask the websites in question to remove the offending information. If you are lucky, websites will comply; often they won’t. If the embarrassing comments are widely reported, links removed from one site may surface on another.

Forge a fresh identity and redeem your reputation

Now it’s time to turn your hand to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Google Public Profile. Create a positive presence by posting intelligently on a number of forums linked to your profession and areas of knowledge. Show off your expertise over a period of months and possibly years. Persistent effort will drive the negative incident down in the Google search results. Given enough time, your tarnished reputation may regain its luster, though a professional service such as Internet Ethics Corp. will speed the process especially with the help of its flagship product, CounterMeasures.

Unfortunately, the incident may have become entrenched on websites deemed reliable by Google Web crawlers. If the story appears on a respected and well-known industry-watch blog, for example, the link will retain its prominence, defeating your best efforts and demanding the services of an online reputation management company.

Internet Ethics Corp. can help

Fortunately, Internet Ethics Corp. will step in and repair the situation with varying levels of online reputation management and remediation. A rapid suppression service such as CounterMeasures offers the most up-to-date technology and rapid results. Internet Ethics Corp. will allow you to gain control of your online presence and present your best face to potential employers.

Call Internet Ethics Corp for a complimentary quotation and assessment at 877.519.1960! Learn more about our search engine optimization (SEO), online public relations, and on-line reputation management services.

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