If you are here, or living on this planet for that matter, you probably already know who Google is. They are the 900 pound gorilla dominating online search. If you are having a reputation problem, it’s probably also true that it lies within the Google search result pages.

Here are some current Google search statistics; in February 2010 an estimated 6.0 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 65.2 percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period.

In a month. One month. To boil that down it is over 7.5 million searches per hour. A whopping 128,000 searches per minute. An astounding 2134 searches per second. Yup, that’s power my friends. An awful lot of searches going through their system at any given second, and they are getting more and more of the search market each and every day. Projections suggest that by this time next year Google will be doing close to 10 billion searches per month.

So what does all this mean when it comes to your reputation online? › Continue reading…

Cheap reputation repair? Yes, you read it correctly!

Well, affordable at least. Here’s the lowdown…

Reputation repair, or ORM can be extremely difficult and time consuming. Requiring a lot of resources and many hours of search engine optimization work. Often resulting in ongoing costs of thousands of dollars a month for some firms requiring extremely aggressive reputation management campaigns. › Continue reading…

If you found us here, you probably already know the answer to the question. Online slander and attacks on your reputation are so easy it’s absolutely scary.

It really is difficult to believe that one motivated person can cause so much havoc, but our clients come to us time and time again with almost the same situation. Someone is angry at them and has made them their project. Spending every spare minute making their life a living hell.

To the point where they file fake ripoff reports, go on review sites and forums and setup phony profiles, posting false service and product reviews. Repeat this process for a few evenings and you can pretty much count on that person’s reputation being done in. All the while, Google is not going to do anything about it. Not anything at all. › Continue reading…

Why is your reputation on the internet important? Simple, your reputation is directly effecting your sales and your business. If there are bad reviews, your clients and potential customers WILL see them.

It’s now embedded deeply into every consumer. So much so that the phrase “Google them” has become as common as any other household word. Because it’s a fact, over 75% of people admit that they do some “online diligence” prior to making any substantial purchase. What is a substantial purchase? To most it’s anything that costs more than $50. › Continue reading…

Plumbers live and die by the reviews people find about them. So it’s no surprise that we get quite a few calls from plumbers about building a reputation management or reputation repair plan.

Back in the day plumbers were heavily dependent on their phone book advertising to carry their business. Spending a truckload of money on building a solid marketing campaign with the cornerstone being those trusty yellow pages. Now the tide is changing and plumbers have shifted gears. Pointing much more of their focus online. Working primarily on local search results and geographically related search terms. › Continue reading…