Reputation Armor

Reputation Armor  Online Reputation Management Tools

While there are many different tools one can use to manage their online reputation, there are a handful that reputation armor finds work the best. Here are two that have a great deal of clout, and can be used in almost any situation to improve an online brand.

Reputation Armor suggests WordPress

WordPress is the premiere blogging platform used in the world, with more than 200 million blogs running on the software. It is built with user interaction in mind, and features an incredibly-intuitive backend that anyone can learn to use in a short period of time. Running a blog on Wordpress is one of the best ways to be featured near the top of search results, because the very nature of blogs lends itself quite well to having a great deal of search engine relevant content. There is a good chance that you are reading these Reputation Armor tips on WordPress.

Search engines are occupied with many things, Reputation Armor finds one of the most important factors in determining relevance is the freshness of content. Because blogs encourage their users to update frequently, search engines such as Google look at them regularly to see that the content has changed. And tools like WordPress actually include built in features that let a number of different websites and services know whenever new content is posted, so that each new post is echoed around the web, offering many hooks for search engines to pick up your content. So any and all content that reputation armor adds about you or your business will not go unnoticed

Reputation Armor suggests Twitter

Because of Twitter’s very strong web presence, a Twitter username will very often show up in the first page of search results for that term. As a result, setting up a free Twitter account using a personal name or a business name can be an easy, quick, and effective way to establish a first page listing. Twitter allows information to be personalized, a custom icon to be uploaded, which may be a photograph or company logo, and the background to be customized. Reputation Armor has a Twitter account.

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There is always a lot of Hoopla and Hype about Google Pagerank (PR). Is Google PageRank worth all the web chatter? Reputation Armor sees everyone talking about how important PageRank is, even we are caught up in the PageRank addiction.

Reputation Armor notes a comment the other day on a forum and someone posted this comment about PageRank:

“The PageRank you see in the toolbar is a sketchy and stale metric of what a pages PageRank used to be. A simple analogy is getting into your car to go for a drive, knowing that the fuel gauge only shows the amount of fuel that was in your tank 3 months ago. But would you really trust that there is gas in it today?”

In the opinion of Reputation Armor the green PageRank bar is like your website’s report card. It won’t help much on its own, but it represents other things about your site. If a site has a PR7 and is ranking well, it’s not ranking there because of the PageRank itself, but because of what that PageRank represents - Dedicated SEO Work, lots of inbound links, several coming from other quality sites.

Reputation Armor knows it is not the PageRank that is important, it is what you did to get the PageRank that hold the true value.

At ReputationArmor.com we  certainly admit that PageRank isn’t as valuable as it once was. However, it is still reputed to be a small portion of the Google algorithm (along with 100+ other factors), making it not entirely insignificant. It might not help much, but if it helps at all then it can’t be considered “insignificant”.

ReputationArmor.com observes it all the time…you do a search (searching for your own name in Google or Yahoo), or maybe you were just doing some SEO homework to see how your website was ranking. Either way, you stumbled upon some negative information on a forum or service review website.

One that made you steaming mad…

Negative an false information about our clients infuriates us at Reputation Armor.

It happens, and when it does you have a right to be angry. You also have the right to defend your good name, jump into the ring swinging to defend your company reputation.

But don’t do it.

Reputation Armor advises not to react to those reviews like this because it’s going to harm you more than it’s going to help you. Let reputation armor explain to you how most of the search engine algorithms work. You see, they like to see action on a website. So when you attach new content to a forum, blog or review site, you are actually adding fuel to the fire. Google and the rest see the site as a hot news item, being updated frequently, so they rank it better in the search results.

That’s right, your retort makes their complaint rank higher in the search results. Reputation Armor has also found that it makes it harder for us to move when we get hired to clean up the mess. If you’ll consider action rather than reaction, you’ll make our job easier and the overall cleanup less expensive and faster overall.

I know it’s tempting to defend your good name. But reputationarmor.com asks that you to leave this to us.  We’re WILL fix the problem and we’re going to defend your name for you with positive content creation. But you have to let Reputation Armor do its job

Not that we can’t clean things up if you’ve already responded out of passion. It’s just easier to do if you haven’t added content to the offending site or sites.

An irate review can hurt you. A hurried response to an angry review can wound you even more. Instead of reacting, please contact Reputation Armor @ reputationarmor.com and let us launch a plan of action to remedy the problem.

Reputation Armor urges clients and readers to use social networks when trying to build or repair your online reputation. Social networks like Twitter are powerful and Google will in most cases rank them high on search results. Read the entire article on the Reputation Armor Blog

Reputation Armor Donates

As part of a campaign to help raise cancer awareness and support the on going search or a cure, ReputationArmor.com, a Virginia based online reputation management firm has made a donation to The American Cancer Society to help kick of the organizations 2010 fundraising. The amount of the donation remains anonymous. It is not how much you give that makes the difference, it is the fact that you do give.

The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the ACS has state divisions and more than 3,400 local offices.

The company (Reputation Armor) chose to support the fight against cancer because some of the staff, clients, and family member’s lives have been touched by Cancer in one way or another. One employee of the company recalls their grandmother having a breast cancer scare and another contracted employee lost their grandfather to a 3 year battle with lung cancer.

About 1.3 million people are diagnosed with the breast cancer every year and there is no known cause or cure. Funds donated to the non-profit organization go toward research, education, screenings and treatment.

More people die from lung cancer than any other type of cancer. This is true for both men and women. In 2005 (the most recent year for which statistics are currently available), lung cancer accounted for more deaths than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer combined.

Reputation Armor recognizes the need for more support concerning a cure for cancer, even if you can not give a lot (Monetary), you can donate awareness by linking to the causes websites from your website. If your efforts drive traffic and donations, then you have donated more than you can imagine. Every little effort helps.

About ReputationArmor.com: Reputation Armor is an online reputation management firm located in Virginia. Reputation Armor helps individuals and companies manage their online reputations and how people perceive them online.

Reputation Armor (ReputationArmor.com) and the staff of ReputationArmor.com would like to wish everyone a happy new year! We hop 2010 will bring you and yours success and happiness!

Reputation Armor has many positive changes planned for 2010 and hopes to continue serving the business world with our unique reputation repair process.

There will be a few changes to the structure of Reputation Armor this year, including, a new price structure to better serve our clients and “personal” (Individual) clients. We will have optional monthly payment plans for accounts that are focused on individual names. This will help non-businesses and non professionals (Doc., Lawyers, Real Estate), that have reputation issues have the opportunity to use a reputation management company more affordably.

We are also launching a web based online privacy product that will help individuals wipe the internet of private information and protect themselves from prying eyes, identity theft and more!

Again we wish you a Happy New Year!

Our offices are closed today (Friday Jan 1^st 2010) and will reopen this Monday

Happy Holidays!

Reputation Armor would like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday season. Please be safe and do not drink and drive!

Our offices will be open Monday!

This is a quick heads up to our current clients and friends. ReputationArmor.com’s offices had to close down early on Friday due to a massive snow storm that hit Virginia. Our area (Blacksburg, Salem, Roanoke) were hit very hard by the snow storm in less than 24 Hrs the storm dumped 18 inches of snow on us. If you have tried to reach us without success, this is the reason why. We will resume normal business hours as soon as the snow lets up. Safety is a major concern for us and we do not want to put our employees in harms way. All client campaigns are still active and we are working remotely on content and search engine optimization as usual.

A look at the depth of the snow a few miles from our office!

ReputationArmor.com welcomes a new team member (David Ryan). David Ryan has a no nonsense approach when dealing with reputation management issues. He has been involved with the PR industry for over 5 years and brings a lot of public relations creativity to the table.

David Ryan has had a large amount of success at his previous firm (Which we will mention the name of). He has guided several high profile clients with his knowledge of online reputation management.

David Ryan is offering free consuotations on Reputation Management until Jan. 10th 2010. Feel free to contact him by alling 888-358-2766 Ext. 703.

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