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Facebook has over 250 million unique visitors each month. In Reputation Armor’s opinion facebook is the second best ranking social media site when used properly for reputation management.

Myspace has over 122 million unique visitors each month. Although it ranks well,  and we have used it in the past, Reputation Armor has taken the stance that because of spam issues and the fact that myspace is more geared towards tweens, that it is not an ideal reputation management tool for our clients.

Twitter receives over 80 and a half million visitors per month, and is Reputation Armor’s favorite Social media and networking site. It has become one of the most valuable site of its type for online reputation management.

Linkedin, another of Reputation Armor’s favorites, receives over 50 million unique visitors a month.

Ning, with over 42 million visitors, is a underrated and underused reputation management tool.

Founded in 2004, Tagged has 30 million visitors per month.

With over 29 million visitors a month, Reputation Armor notes that classmates is not to be ignored.

Hi5, which touts itself as a way to Express yourself with custom profiles, avatars, music, and more has over 27,000,000 visitors a month.

Hot Reputation Management Tip: Ads on Craigslist can be optimized and rank well on Google. Use your company name or name in the title of your ad and your ad may out-rank negative items in the search engines. Also, link to your ad from your own web properties. The inbound links will help the ad to rise in the rankings. This can help push negative comments about ypu or your company down in the rankings.

Online reputation management involves many facets. Social Media and Social Networks are a very important ingredient to a successful reputation management campaign. Below is a list of social media sites that can help you build your online reputation.

The social media and network sites are categorized to help you find the ones that match up with your specific needs.

ARTS:

ArtSlant
deviantART
Humble Voice - Art, music, video, photography
imeem - Music, videos, photos
MyArtInfo
PhotographyVoter
Virb - Music, art, fashion, film and more

BOOKMARKING:

AllMyFavorites
Backflip
Blinkbits
Blinklist
Blogmarks
Blummy
BuddyMarks
BookmarkTracker
ChangeToLink
Chipmark
del.icio.us
De.lirio.us
Diigo
Dogear
Favoritoo
Feedmarker
Foxmarks
FreeLink
Furl
GiveALink
Hyperlinkomatic
iKeepBookmarks
Jack of All Links
Lilisto
LinkaGoGo
Linkatopia
Linkroll
List Mixer
Lycos iQ
Ma.gnolia (not functional for now)
Mister Wong
Mobilicio.us
MyBookmarks
MyHq
Mylinkvault
MyPip
My Stuff (from Ask)
MyVmarks
Namakkal
Netvouz
Online Bookmark Manager
OnlyWire
Oyax
Shadows
Simpy
SiteBar
SiteJot
Snipit
Socializer
StartAid
Stufflinker
Sync2it
SyncOne
Turboclip
Windows Live Favorites
WireFan
Zurpy

CARS AND AUTO:

AutoSpies
Boompa
Car Community
CarDomain
Motorpulse

CONNECTING WITH FRIENDS:

Classmates
ConnectU
Friends Reunited
Graduates
Meetup
MyYearbook
Reunion
SKOUT

CONSUMER REVIEWS:

Cork’d - Wine reviews
Chowhound - Food
Epinions
RateItAll
Yelp

COOKING/FOOD

All Recipes Barmano
Bake Space
Epicurious Community
Family Oven
FohBoh - Restaurant network
Kitchen Bug
MyDish
Nibbledish
Recipe Key
Recipezaar
Sharecipe
Tasty Planner
We Eatt
WineLifeToday - Wine

CULTURES/FOREIGN LANGUAGES:

Acelerame - Spanish (cars)
Amina - Chechen Republic
Black Planet - African American
ClubGh - Ghana
Hyves - Dutch
IRC Galleria - Finland
iWiW - Hungary
IndianPad
LunarStorm - Sweden
MiGente - Latino
Mixi - Japan
Nexopia - Canada
Playahead - Sweden
Scoopeo - French
StudiVZ - German students
Wamba - Spanish social network
Yigg - German

DATING:

Bachelor Place
Chemistry
Crush or Flush
Cupid’s Lab
Flirtomatic
LoveandFriends
OkCupid
SpeedDate
WooMe

EDUCATION/BOOKS:

BookCrossing
Bookins
BookMooch
BookSwim
Carmun
Citeulike
Connect via Books
Curriki - for teachers
Good Reads
LibraryThing
PaperBackSwap
qoolsqool
Read It Swap It
Shelfari
We The Teachers

EVENT PLANNING

Socializr
Zoji

FAMILY:

Amiglia
Babbiz
CafeMom
Eons
Family 2.0
Family Den
Famiva
Geni
Genoom
GreatSchools - Parents review schools
Kinzin
MomJunction
MothersClick
Moxie Moms
MyFamily.com
Parentography
TheFamilyPost
WebBiographies

FASHION/CLOTHING:

2Threads
Chictini
Fashionising
Fashion Network
Metro Friendly
Movmnt
My Kids Fashion
Springleap - T-shirts
StyleCaster Community
Stylehive
StyleHop
StyleMob
Threadless - T-shirts
Us Trendy

FINANCE:

Tip’d

GAMES:

Gaia - Games and anime
Game Diggity
GuildCafe
WeeWorld

GENERAL NETWORKING:

AIM Pages
Badoo
Bebo
CyWorld
EarthFrisk
ECpod
Facebook
Faves
Friendster
Grono
Hi5
iBritz
LiveJournal
Lovento
Multiply
MySpace
MyWebProfile
NetFriendships
Netlog
Orkut
Passado
Plaxo
Skyrock
Tagged
Tribe
Trig
Windows Live Spaces
Yahoo! 360
Zaadz

HEALTH/MEDICAL:

DailyStrength
DrConnected
Health Ranker
icarecafe
MyPharmaNote
Sanewire - recovery
Sermo - Doctors
Walker Tracker
Who is Sick?

KIDS:

imbee
KidLinks

INTERNET MARKETING:

Gooruze
PlugIM
Sphinn

LINK/WEBSITE SHARING:

Ensiting
Faves
StumbleUpon
TagTooga
Trailfire

MICROBLOGGING/IM/MOBILE:

BeeMood
Feecle - Japanese
FlickIM
Frazr - German and French
IMified
Jaiku
Komoo - Chinese
loopt
mbuzzy
Numpa - Dutch
Pownce
Radar
Robisz - Polish
Rummble
Twitter
Zannel

MOVIES:

Filmcrave
Reelempire

MUSIC:

10Tune
Buzznet
Fuzz
JamNow
Jango
Last.fm
MOG
Purevolume
Soundpedia
thesixtyone

NEWS:

Blog Engage
Blogg-Buzz
BloggingZoom
BlogsVine
BookmarkUs.net
BuzzFlash
Content Pop
Digg
Fark
Hubdub
Mad or Love
Mixx
NewsCloud
NewsHeat - Politics
Newsvine
NowPublic
Plime
Propeller
RawSugar
Reddit
Shoutwire
Stirr’d Up
Tagza
Wobblog
Zoomit (Canada)

PETS:

Catster
Dogster
Fuzzster
MyCatSpace
MyDogSpace
PetSide
PetZume
Pikapet
UnitedDogs

PHOTO SHARING:

eSnips
Flickr
Fotki
Fotolog
Linkinn
My Opera
Photbucket
Picli
Tagmee
Text America
Zoomr

PHOTOGRAPHY:

MyShutterspace
Photography Mentor
Photography Network
Picture Social
Shutterate
Shutter Social

POLITICS:

Carnival of Politics

POP CULTURE:

Lipstick - Celebrity
Showhype

PROFESSIONAL:

APSense
Biznik
CitiAlly
Cofoundr - Entrepreneurial
CompanyLoop
DoMyStuff
Doostang
Ecademy
Fast Pitch
JASEzone
KillerStartups
Konnects
Lawyrs
LinkedIn
MeetIn
MyCareer.ge
Naymes
NetHooks
Ryze
Small Business Brief
StartupNation - Entrepreneurial
Startupping - Internet entrepreneurs
Synergy Street - Entrepreneurial
Tapped In - Educational professionals
Upspring
Venture Capital Network
Xing
Ziggs

REAL ESTATE:

Puurple
Trulia
Zillow

RELIGIOUS:

Blessedit
GospelShout
MyChurch
Tangle - video sharing
Xianz

SHOPPING:

AgentB
BiddingBuddies - For Ebay members
Deal Comet
Dealigg
Iliketotallyloveit
Judy’s Book
OSoYou
ThisNext
Yub
Zebo

SOCIAL ACTION:

Care2 - Social Issues/Humanities
Hugg - Environmental
Planet Change - Environmental
TakingITGlobal

SPORTS:

Armchair GM
Ballhype
eFans
FanNation
Fanspot
GymMeet
KeeCricket
Joga - Soccer (Football)
Prep Champs
ScoreGuru
SportsFlip
Sportsvite
Takkle - high school sports
SportsCast
Strands

TECHNOLOGY:

Design Bump - Web/graphic design
Design Float - Web/graphic design
DesignRelated
DevelopersNiche
DNHour - Domain Name News
DotNetKicks
Dzone - Developers
Earner’s Club - Internet Marketing
Hacker News
Hosting Bookmarks
Pixel Groovy - Web design
Slashdot
Tweako
SWiK - Open source software
WPscoop - WordPress

TEEN:

eCRUSH
eSpintheBottle
Piczo
Profile Heaven
Sconex
Student.com
Stardoll
Teenwag

TRAVEL:

Couch Surfing
EveryTrail - GPS
GeckoGo
Groople
Gusto
TravBuddy
Travellerspoint
TrekCafe
Trip Advisor
TripUp
WAYN
Woophy

VIDEO SHARING:

Broadcaster
Panjea
Revver
Tubearoo
Viddler
Video Bomb
Video Sift
Vimby
Xillian TV
YouTube

WOMEN:

Kirtsy
PNN
SurgarLoving

MISCELLANEOUS:

9rules
43 Things - Goal sharing
Beautiful Society - List and vote for your favorite things
Clip Clip
ChickAdvisor
Clipmarks
Clipstar
Clubnet UK - clubbing
Consumating
Dandelife - A social biography network
Dawdle - Auction
Daytipper - Tips and tutorials
Digglicious
DigStock - Financial
DontStayIn - Clubbing
EnergyPeopleConnect
Experience Project - Share Life Experiences
Faceparty - “The biggest party on Earth”
Fazed
Faqqly - Community of questions and answers
Ficlets - Collaborative writing
Flixster - Movies
Freagle
Gather
Global Voices
GoLark - Events and activities
GreekStrength - fraternities and sororities
Hypediss
I Am Bored
Jambo
JetEye
LinkFilter
Listible
Match A Dream
Neighborrow - Borrowing and sharing
Ning - Create your own network
Outside.in - local news
Product Clash - Product reviews
Prosper - People to people lending
Recruiting.com
Scoop.at - Austria
Searchles
SEO Tagg
Shared Confession - Secrets
Spout - Films
Squidoo
StoryLink - Screen Writers
Sydney Networkers
Tipstrs - Tips and tutorials
Tribe
Truemors
Value Investing News - Financial
Vampire Freaks
Velospace - Bicycles
WeGame - Video games
Wists

Reputation Armor notes that using social networks as a Reputation Management tool or technique is a must! The fact is social networks like FaceBook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace, and hundreds of others rank very well on Google and other search engines when developed and utilized properly. If you have twenty or so social networking sites about you that rank high on Google, you control 20 spots about yourself and own those positions.

Creating social networking accounts is easy, fast, and in some cases actually fun. Reputation Armor uses TONS of social networks on the web for individuals and businesses. Reputation Armor recommends picking a few for yourself and actually using them to your advantage.

One extremely important tip that Reputation Armor would like to share is remember to log-in to your social network accounts frequently (At Least Weekly) and update your status, or add new content to your public profiles. By adding something new or showing Google that you are actively using these accounts, Reputation Armor has found that Google will in most cases perceive that this “account” is very relevant about your name thus ranking higher and stronger.

Here are a few social networks that Reputation Armor recommends:

Facebook can be a great place to network, just make certain you keep your profile free from things you wouldn’t want spread about you online. Example: Facebook.com/ReputationArmor

MySpace has millions of visitors; this popular social networking site can be a great place to get your and your business’ name out there. Example: MySpace.com/ReputationArmor

LinkedIn Here you can create a professional profile that will allow you to interact with others in your profession in a safe and positive manner. Example: LinkedIn.com/ReputationArmor

Twitter is great whether you want to communicate with others or follow the noise about you on the net, Twitter is an essential tool. Example: Twitter.com/ReputationArmor

Reputation Armor recommends that after creating these social networks it is a good idea to find like minded people, and industry partners to link up with you and network. You should also promote your social networks by linking to them when possible from your blog, website, or other social sites.

Reputation Armor Social Profile Creation

Reputation Armor creates over 125 social network accounts for our clients and optimizes them using the latest cutting edge social networking SEO techniques. This method ensures that the profiles rank highly in search engine results, therefore giving control of the top spots back to clients.

Social Networking Profile creation is only a minor portion of the Reputation Armor Online Reputation Management process.

For more information, contact Reputation Armor 888-358-ARMOR

These days it seems to Reputation Armor that the harder that individuals try to be transparent online, the bigger target they become.

Reputation Armor sees it all the time, at first you receive out of this world reviews, you add yourselves to more sites and directories, set up google Alerts to receive emails whenever you’re referred to online, and all is good with the world, then comes the day that you receive a bad review. Reputation Armor finds that some reviews and complaints are warranted, while most are anonymous and false, and posted by competitors and/or ex-employees. In some cases reputation armor is able to have these complaints removed if they are unfounded. Most review sites allow anonymous reviews, and although it’s unfair, it’s not illegal.

Reputation Armor answers…how to avoid potential customers and clients seeing bad reviews of your service?

If you can’t fix it or refute it, and getting it removed isn’t an option, then reputation armor advises that you may want to consider burying it. Basically, this means you need to push the bad reviews off  at least the first two pages of Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. - so potential customers looking for you on the Internet find the real you before they find false reviews.

Here are few elements that reputation armor finds important:

Your company website, for example “ReputationArmor.com” Ideally, reputation armor finds that this will rank in the number one position, and have prominent links showing to the main areas of your website, including testimonials.

Your website is more than likely the first thing a client will look for, make sure it contains some great testimonials / reviews. Case studies, examples of work and quotes from happy clients are great for showing you in a good light.

Reputation Armor can’t say enough about the importance of blogs. Whether your blog is attached to your website, or a sub domain, it gives any potential client the opportunity to find company updates and news. A corporate blog (ex. blog.ReputationArmor.com) can often tell as much, if not more, than a company website, as a blog tends to be more informal and have more of a ‘personality’

Twitter profiles are also an important aspect of any Reputation Armor online reputation management operation. Of course, this is only a positive element if you want people to find it, and your company image and brand is well represented while posting tweets  If your Twitter profile is full of ‘Was out late have a hangover this morning’ then reputation armor advises that it’s probably not for you. However, if you use your Twitter profile as part of your companies brand then having it show up on the first page for your company’s key words is excellent.

LinkedIn and other professional online networking profiles are also recommended by reputation armor. These profiles, especially if very active and up to date, show that you’re not just a fly by night, and go a long way in representing your company’s online brand.

We also like to take advantage of articles that clients have written. Whether they are articles on your own site, or articles on somewhere authoritative, reputation armor notes that having your content easily indexable shows you spend time promoting yourself, and those articles could be the difference in standing out among competitors.

Reputation Armor finds that the single most over looked aspect of online reputation management is Video Search engine optimization. Whether it’s own YouTube channel, or videos on your site, having videos show up in the search results for your company name is great. Not everyone likes reading tons of text about how great you are. Reputation Armor has observed that video about your brand can be one of the most convincing aspects of online reputation management.

Facebook profiles and / or Fan Pages are another important characteristic of reputation armor. Example, www.facebook.com/ReputationArmor. Again, this is only a good thing if you’re aware that your Facebook profile could be seen as part of a ‘fact finding’ mission by potential customers.

In summation, Reputation Armor wants clients to understand that search results for your company or individual name should provide a well rounded promotion of your company and services. When people see your website, your blog, your Twitter profile and Facebook Fan Page, several articles written by you, and videos, they see that you’ve been around a while, that you’re not going anywhere and that you’re the who they want to deal with.

For the above reasons Reputation Armor always recommends having up to date profiles in as many places as possible, and regularly updated blogs. The down side to this is that it can take up a great deal of time.

When it comes to burying bad reviews, the above methods alone are usually not enough, although a good start. Review sites and blogs, by their very nature, do well in search engines such as Google, and a more aggressive approach may be needed inured to ensure that positive results out rank the negative ones.

For more information about removing bad reviews online and managing your online reputation, contact ReputationArmor.com.

888-358-ARMOR

Online Reputation Management

Reputation Armor knows that the success of an online business depends on how potential customers perceive it and in a day and age when so much information is available; reputation armor notes that online reputation is that much more important. Potential customers look for companies that have a strong online reputation.

Reputation Armor also sees the other side of reputation management. The net is often used by competitors to post untrue information about their counterparts. These sorts of posts, as reputation armor sees it, always directly impact the bottom line. The more information posted the higher the link will rank on Google and other search engine results therefore amplifying the issue.

Fortunately, qualified reputation management firms, such as Reputation Armor, can resolve such issues by way of activating an aggressive campaign.

When Reputation Armor takes on a new client our reputation management consultants revise a personalized strategy that end the end will tackle even the worst case reputation problems

What does Reputation Armor Do?

Reputation Armor uses a method that is sometimes referred to as ‘Reverse Search Engine Optimization’, or ‘Inoculation’ in which we guarantee that the first few pages of search engine results will be clear of negative links; doing so by ‘insulating’ them with positive content.

Reputation Armor makes use of positive news gathered through earlier press releases or that given by our clients. The reputation armor process also encompasses the use of “Social Media” and other micro sites and blogs so that the same content gets reflected. The use of social media/networking sites is actually the first step that reputation armor takes. Within hours of becoming a reputation armor client, over 150 such profiles are created. A portion of these profiles will become a working faction of the ‘Google Insulation’ that while burying the negative, shines a bright light on the positive.

Reputation Armor combines effective, cutting edge reputation management techniques that no other so called “Reputation Management” companies can enact. We also constantly monitor search engine rankings so that the positive impact is long term and our client’s online reputation is well protected over many years.

For more information contact, Reputation Armor @ 888-358-ARMOR

Here is a service worth checking out! Most of our clients have online reputation issues and struggle to gain consumer trust due to the unfounded negative links and PR online about their business name.

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Signing up with Trust Guard will accredit your business as a verified trust-guard member and let consumers and potential clients know that you care about your businesses reputation and you are not hiding from anything (Transparent).

You will be able to display a Trust Guard online badge (also know as a seal) on your web site. This badge alone will help you increase trust and conversions.

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CompanyPond is an online profile site that allows you to create a highly visible profile about your company. The site does very well on search engines and is a great tool to use when trying to build or repair your online reputation.

ReputationArmor.com would like to create a CompanyPond profile for all of our clients, but we can’t make a profile without having access to an email address within your company (anything@YOURCOMPANYNAME.com). CompanyPond.com requires you to use an email address that is from your company website, which means you can not use any free email providers or your ISP’s email. They do this for verification reasons I suppose and do not what just anyone to be able to create an account about your business (Good Idea).

Jump on companypond.com and get started on creating your profile there. If you want to create a profile for an indiviuals name or the CEO of a company, you will need to use their sister website PeoplePond.com.

Check out Reputation Armor on CompanyPond and see what a profile looks like!

Internet slander is on the increase, and with it, an assortment of questions about what slander truly is, and is not.

These explanations are what we understand to be true, but if you are considering a defamation case in a court of law you are going to want to check with an attorney that specializes in this legal area. Reputation Armor offers reputation management and our objective is to be of assistance to people dealing with online slander.

Defamation: Also called Defamation of Character.

Spoken or written words (commentary) on a living person that affects his or her reputation. It can be in regard to business or have personal implications. If a blog, website, or forum publishes something harmful about you that damages your reputation, defamation has occurred. Both libel and slander are forms of defamation of character.

In most states you have to actually suffer a financial loss in order to have cause for legal action.

Slander:

Slander is when someone says something negative about you, with spoken words. Internet libel is frequently confused with internet slander, but slander primarily means the spoken word. If I say something negative about you to all of my friends that hurts your business and is 100% not true, this is slander.

Libel

Libel is the written word, as well as the recorded word. As a rule this includes radio and television broadcasts. If a reporter says something about you that is false, it is classified as libel. This also generally includes written reviews on blogs and forums, as well as review websites like RipOffReport.com, ComplaintsBoard.com and several others.

Can you Sue for Internet Slander / Libel?

Someone has posted lies and harmful articles about you online and you want to know if you can make them pay for damages. The answer is maybe (But Not Likely). Many product review websites, like RipoffReport.com, My3Cents, Yelp, Complaints Board, and the rest are all protected by a law called The Communications Decency Act ( or “CDA,” : 47 USC 230), which completely protects website owners from being held libel for content created by their website users.

Could you possible sue the actual person that generated the content? Perhaps, if you knew who they were and could prove they did it without a doubt. The problem is that website owners don’t (By Law) have to divulge this information to you, nor do they have any responsibility to log any user info like IP addresses and email addresses. Identifying who to sue can be an issue when it comes to most the review sites.

Does a person have a right to speak their opinion?

Completely, it’s a privileged right that we all have, and  it is a constitutional right. However, an opinion must remain an opinion and be stated as such. It should never include detailed facts that can later be proven fictitious.

Can a person defend defamation in court?

If you sue someone for defamation (libel or slander) and they demonstrate in court that what they said or wrote is true, you’re going to lose your case. Just because something is embarrassing or upsetting isn’t enough. If it’s true, you shouldn’t sue. You’ll only lose time and money and then in the end, your case.

Can I remove internet slander / libel from offending websites?

Almost certainly not, except if you can prove that the website owner wrote it and that it was 100% untrue. If it was user generated content (Written By A Site User or Member) they do not have to remove the content, nor reveal to you who wrote that content. It’s all sheltered by the CDA (Communications Decency Act). Rip off report and its clones have more or less all declared that they will NEVER remove user generated content.

They are 100% protected by the CDA and the user generated content is the foundation for their hideous, little business model. The online complaints on their website are what drives more traffic to their website and makes them revenue in one way or another.

They are never going to remove those reviews. But we can help. If you or your company are suffering from internet slander or online libel, please contact Reputation Armor at 888-358-2766 and let us explain how we can remove negative information from the first few page of the search engine results.